> Who should pay for someone to live? Why should anyone pay for anything? The simple fact that you have to pay to live is a pretty modern invention. > Houses

> Who should pay for someone to live? Why should anyone pay for anything? The simple fact that you have to pay to live is a pretty modern invention. > Houses (and utilities) don't build themselves. True. It's a good thing then that some people are interested in doing that. And if there's a task that noone wants to do (washing dishes?) we can share the burden in a fair way: i'd be happy to collect trashes for my community once a year or once a month, if others do the same. Also, while houses don't build themselves, you'll note that money doesn't build them either. It's intended as a motivational force for people to work. However people can "work" (if we can call it that) out of conviction/ideals as well. We could collectively abolish money from one day to the next and housing would still be there, fields would still grow... Life would go on, except the capitalist bloodsuckers wouldn't know how to extract value from their wage slaves anymore. (Also, most people would probably quit their job because it doesn't make sense or actively hurts others/nature. See David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs on this phenomenon) > why should ANYONE pay for music? Well as long as you pay for housing and food you probably should pay for music, too. But money doesn't make any sense to "ensure fair compensation". It does make sense to extract value from the poor to the rich in a very abstract way... it's basically "grow food for your king all year long and they'll come with soldiers and take 90% of your production" but with layers of subtlety added over the centuries.