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"We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed" You make it seem like there is some entity or group of entities that think
by zo1 13y ago
"We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed"
You make it seem like there is some entity or group of entities that thinks "Hey, let's go make up jobs". For what reason, you ask? Well, because he has to "justify his right to exist". That puts your argument in the same bucket as "karma", "quantum wellbeing", "deepak-nonsense" and "homeopathy".
Seriously though. What is that rant even about? People don't have a right to exist. They just do. What they do have a right to is to be left alone and unharmed.
If you can come up with some general system where 1 out of a thousand individuals willingly gives up his productivity so that the rest can "go back to school", then by all means go ahead. The keyword there being "willingly", and it pretty much means you won't ever come up with such a system.
Until then, please stop telling other people what they should or shouldn't be doing. It's none of your business.
- williamcotton 13y agoWhat my neighbors are up to is incredibly relevant to my life. We share the same space and we affect each other's lives in important ways. On a bigger and more abstract scale we share the same Earth with every other living human. Stop pretending like you don't live in an organized society and that we all don't have the ability to change the dynamics of our culture through government. We've been doing so for millennia. No man is an island!
- burntsushi 13y agoNothing you says contradicts the parent. The parent doesn't say that you should only care about yourself. The parent says that you shouldn't force people to act as if they care about others.
- eli_gottlieb 13y ago>People don't have a right to exist. Uuuuh, says you?
- zo1 13y agoGee, way to cherry-pick. How about you go back and read the two sentences that come after the one you quoted. Is that really how you have discussions with people? Blow up and scream bloody murder when you see something you remotely think is objectionable? It's very disingenuous.
- loup-vaillant 13y agoAre you really suggesting that not even 0.1% people are willing to support the rest if they can? Are you really saying that we're such moral monsters that not even 0.1% of the population wouldn't help 1000 people if they could? Besides, with such a ratio, we could have a more equitable repartition: such as, having, say, 10% of the people volunteering a hundredth of their time to support the system. Do you really believe that if it was possible, it wouldn't be done anyway? Such cynicism on steroids would be ludicrous. Did I miss something?