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No one needs luxury goods, yet jobs exist to make them. Jobs exist because there is demand, not necessarily a necessity.
by awb 5y ago
No one needs luxury goods, yet jobs exist to make them.
Jobs exist because there is demand, not necessarily a necessity.
- randomdata 5y agoHumans have shown that they are capable of surviving in isolation, so there is no job – here to mean work done for someone else – that is a necessity as you have used it. In this context, necessity and demand are equivalent.
- goldenkey 5y agoYou both have just arrived at the rub: Capitalism has fooled the common man into thinking that desire is necessity.
- randomdata 5y agoThat's not the case. Rather, the definition of "necessity" changes in this particular context. It turns out that words can have more than one meaning.