>But the question is, if you are doing something and the alternative is starvation and death, are you really a free human being? If you think about it for a whi

>But the question is, if you are doing something and the alternative is starvation and death, are you really a free human being? If you think about it for a while, the answer becomes clear: you are not free. Thomas Jefferson would have agreed with you. His idea of America was the idea that there would be many small farms where people could be more or less self-sufficient and work would have instrinsic meaning. Of course, he had actual chattel slaves to help out. Hamilton had the idea that the US would become a trading nation. By their time, the industrial-capitalist revolution had not really gotten underway world-wide but the Hamiltonians won out in the end. The notion of 'work' as we know it now had also not really come into existence. Most people in the US worked on farms or otherwise for themselves.