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> Advanced, industrial, technological societies should be able to guarantee comfort and stability for all people regardless of work. Advanced societies can and
by PixyMisa 4y ago
> Advanced, industrial, technological societies should be able to guarantee comfort and stability for all people regardless of work.
Advanced societies can and should guarantee food and shelter to all people regardless of work.
They can't guarantee comfort and stability at all.
> The most productive workers aren’t people working for a reward
The most productive workers are the ones working under crisis conditions. Not happiest. Most productive.
> Nobody should have to work to obtain comfort and stability.
Should not? Maybe. They do anyway, because that's just reality.
- nradov 4y agoI'm happy to subsidize food and shelter for people who can't work, or who are in school, or who can't find any job despite legitimately looking. But as for adults who are physically capable of working but choose not to, forget it. They can starve to death as far as I'm concerned.
- josephcsible 4y agoCoincidentally, part of the Second Reading at today's Catholic Mass basically makes that exact point too: "In fact, when we were with you, we instructed you that if anyone was unwilling to work, neither should that one eat." (2 Thessalonians 3:10)
- PixyMisa 4y agoI can certainly understand that sentiment, but I personally wouldn't go that far. Choose not to work? Here's your bread, here's your cardboard box. Next!