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You assume all objects, experiences and behaviours are priced accurately. Something I would certainly not assume.

• Proven 5y ago
  > behaviours are priced accurately. Something I would certainly not assume. He didn't guess how you value or should value that kind of a lifestyle, he merely commented on the morality of it. If you value parasitism, that fine, you're free to do that. But it's still immoral. > Go back further in time and he'd have been ostracized from his hunter-gatherer community for not contributing, and would've lived a short life as a hermit. Because productivity was low, its wasn't much of a choice - there was little to give. Today he can make it because the moral desire to create more than one takes - contrary to what he promotes - has prevailed. You wouldn't need to go back in time a single second to see how long would his life be in a society that consisted of only useless eaters such as himself. He wouldn't last past next winter.