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In reply to the discussion: Do you believe that everyone deserves food and housing, regardless of ability to work? [View all]Lyric
(12,675 posts)If you take the survival struggle out of the equation, then people are free to pursue whatever "work" is most meaningful to them. How many of YOU would choose your current job over any other? How many of you are doing what you do because it's tolerable and it pays the bills.
Imagine a society where people are free to be artists and poets, shopkeepers and entrepreneurs, inventors and philosophers and scientists working like Tesla and Newton did. Being able to take great risks to develop a new technology or medication, because having your family starving and homeless is NEVER a threat again. Imagine taking the competition out of living, the cutthroat "every man for himself" mentality that isolates us and keeps us suspicious of one another. There can still be wealth and luxuries, but they must be worked for above and beyond the basic minimum. I think most people would gladly do whatever labor they could in exchange for special food, posher housing, etc.
We have the technology, wealth, and resources to feed and house every person in this country without harming any company's bottom line, except maybe the predatory payday loan lenders and their ilk, who rely on exploiting the impoverished to make their money.
So why not do it?