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Why should people expect to be paid to work on a hobby?
by andrew_ 5y ago
Why should people expect to be paid to work on a hobby?
- fsflover 5y agoBecause it benefits humanity?
- andrew_ 5y agono it doesn't. it benefits the individual. it's a matter of choice; you choose to use what someone else is written rather than write your own. you choose to use what's been provided, rather than fork it. it benefits you, the user.
- fsflover 5y agoA lot of hobbies benefit the whole society. I would say most of them do. Hobby means making something. Hobbyists often make something valuable not only to themselves. It also often involves collaborations. Especially in the field of software development.
- cortexio 5y agotrue, some hobby-ists improve society. but how many.. maybe 1 in a million? What about jobs that no one wants to do? Who does those? If so many people get paid by the government, wont that collapse the value of money, making 90% of all people live in poverty? Im not convinced it is a good idea.
- marcodiego 5y agoBecause it is cheaper than paying continuous survailance or taking care of his mental health and dangers to society that he may pose without any kind of support. Edit: replaced "occupation" with "support".
- andrew_ 5y agothen don't frame it as a hobby. a hobby is something done in someone's spare time. I think you want to frame a hobby as an entitled occupation
- danaris 5y agoWhy should people have to constantly justify their right to exist by working for someone else's profit for 40+ hours/week?
- cortexio 5y agothey dont. you can just move to a place where the ground is dirt cheap, trade something for it. build your own house, garden and maybe get some chickens for eggs. and you can just live like that until you die. no taxes, no bosses, everyone can do it. but people dont want to do that, because it's way too much work. People rather be lazy and just take a 9to5 job, eat comfort food and live with their fancy iphone and internet. oh the horror. edit: you also might want to get some sheep, to make new clothes.
- andrew_ 5y agoThis is always inevitably thrown out there as a straw man whenever capitalism is discussed online. A variation on Godwin's Law for post-modernists. The typical response is that "They're not, they're free to work as much or as little as they'd like," which is invariably followed by rabbit holes about health care, welfare, various entitlements, and migration. Please, be more original.