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I'm all for helping people be productive. It's a shame to waste human potential. But if you have the ability to be productive and choose to be idle instead, nobody is under any obligation to feed, house, or clothe you. If you want things made by other people and you're able to work, you must work. Anything else is incompatible with basic tenets of fairness. And even ignoring fairness and descending to the level of crude practicality, when you take from the productive and give to the unproductive, the size of the former group shrinks and the latter one grows. Eventually, there's not enough productivity to go around and the whole thing collapses.



still, even really productive people (such as the ones sewing your shirt) can't yet have all of the above basic goods (let alone something extra), while yet other people (heirs, investors, ...) are consuming insane amounts of labor in no relation to the outputs of their "work" (if they do any). That's what our economic system is happily covering and it's decidedly not fair in any rational way. And its also leading to societal collapse if you're looking at the US.


I am fine with your reasoning as long as we apply the same measure of fairness to "trust-fund babies". If you do nothing and still get good food, big house and nice clothes just because your ancestors worked hard, how is that a fair setup?




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