"People need to work. They need to have something to feel good about doing every day. Work is a big part of self image and self worth. Any system that makes it

"People need to work. They need to have something to feel good about doing every day. Work is a big part of self image and self worth. Any system that makes it possible for people to sit at home eating bon bons (as the Gotham Gal likes to say) is not a good system." This reminds me about the importance of choosing our questions. The quoted piece is focused on the individual, and I presume that the feed-back would be accounted on that level too. The thing is, any given system makes things easy/comfortable for some kinds of individuals and not so much for the other kinds, so framing the problem around a generic citizen doesn't bring up in my view even a stable desirable target. (The communist system is the first relevant example that comes to my mind - they thought that they can afford to please just the limited kind of individuals that happened to form the mediocre majority. They were wrong, of course. They avoided mass unrest and violent revolutions, but suffered brain drain à la "Atlas Shrugged".) The framing level that I see relevant in this regard comprises the entire humanity and considers the effects on its entirety - what will allow us (all of us) to evolve, to get better, to "get there" (where "there" is to be continuously defined). Please note that I didn't tried to answer the question that was being implied, I merely tried to fix it.