> A job provides perspective and can show you that you are truly worth something before you even believe it yourself. People feeling worthless for not having

> A job provides perspective and can show you that you are truly worth something before you even believe it yourself. People feeling worthless for not having a job is entirely down to society telling them that they're worthless if they don't have a job. This is exacerbated by the fact that not having having a job currently adds a great deal of stress by putting you in a position where you're highly likely to lose food and shelter. > I don't think most people would ever get as far as being able to create anything worthwhile without a job forcing them to work. It's easy to see in young people who haven't found the right job. They waste their lives plating video games or netflixing all day. Without to pressure to do anything no open source developer will be born out of this. No artist will emerge. They will Just stay in their comfy situation. I think you're vastly underestimating how creative most people can be and I find the fact that you believe the only path to self worth is by selling your labour to someone else very sad. There are plenty of people with ambition to create out there that are instead busy flipping burgers. The current work oriented approach does a really good job of suppressing the expression of that creativity, but it still doesn't manage to get rid of it. There are millions of artists, musicians, and hobbyists churning out bland corporate shite instead of the work they'd rather be doing and we'd be better off if they were free to pursue that instead. Of course not everyone would immediately go out and start contributing new things, but I don't see how you can imply it wouldn't lead to a great number of more people doing so.