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Unless the job you get doesn't provide enough money to buy these tools, or there is a general lack of labor opportunities. This is a reality for a large portion
by Klinky 7y ago
Unless the job you get doesn't provide enough money to buy these tools, or there is a general lack of labor opportunities. This is a reality for a large portion of the current population.
So it's not an innate ability to create value really that matters, it's the ability to navigate a system with many gatekeepers who have entrenched interests, and where not everyone is starting from the same spot, but we should pretend they are, and pretend that all wealth accumulated is justified. Let's not question the means to that wealth or its ramifications on society as a whole.
- tathougies 7y agoThere's tons of labor opportunities. Most people want someone else to find some for them rather than searching themselves. And then they want to complain about how they're being exploited.
- taneq 7y agoNo, you can always start from scratch and make your own tools, invent your own techniques and products, etc. What you're seeing is that it's much much easier to get things if you work as part of the economy than if you go it alone. This is because the economy is already bootstrapped, through the work of countless millions of people who came before you. Nothing's stopping you from doing it yourself except for the fact that you don't want to because it's much harder to make things yourself than to get a job and then buy things.