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Why should people have to constantly justify their right to exist by working for someone else's profit for 40+ hours/week?
by danaris 5y ago
Why 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.