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People don't freely choose to work in a vacuum - they are coerced into it (through property law). I work to avoid homelessness and starvation, and so do most pe
by djrobstep 7y ago
People don't freely choose to work in a vacuum - they are coerced into it (through property law). I work to avoid homelessness and starvation, and so do most people.
If I stop working, eventually somebody will turn up at my door and throw me out onto the street.
- BurningFrog 7y ago> I work to avoid homelessness and starvation, and so do most people. Of course. But the fact that we have biological needs is not coercion.
- djrobstep 7y ago"biological need" is a strange way to describe being violently attacked in your place of shelter for working insufficient hours for the capitalist class
- Matumio 7y agoNo, but good luck trying to burn some piece of forest to get your piece of earth for your farm. You cannot justify the existing order with basic human needs. In some places you even have to pay for access to water.
- xg15 7y ago> But the fact that we have biological needs is not coercion. Libertarian thinking in a nutshell.