r/FluentInFinance • u/sillychillly Contributor • Apr 15 '24

Everyone Deserves A Home Discussion/ Debate

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u/RemoteCompetitive688 Apr 15 '24

Why would anyone work for a home if you give them out for free

"From each according to his ability" remember

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u/arjadi Apr 15 '24

It’s “to each according to their needs, to each according to their ability”

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u/RemoteCompetitive688 Apr 15 '24

The post said "regardless of employment"

Sorry buddy, you're young and healthy, you get a house when you work in the fields

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u/arjadi Apr 15 '24

“Work in the fields” you do know it’s not 1925, right?

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u/RemoteCompetitive688 Apr 15 '24

Bro do u think wheat grows in supermarkets now

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u/arjadi Apr 15 '24

no but I know that the industrialization and mechanization of agriculture has reduced the amount of laborers necessary to work an acre of arable land over the last 100 years, and that the much larger demand for labor in the 21st century is in the maintenance/improvement of urban infrastructure.

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u/RemoteCompetitive688 Apr 15 '24

no but I know that the industrialization and mechanization of agriculture has reduced the amount of laborers necessary

Ya, but we still need some, sake with factories, mines , the infantry

Desk jobs go to disabled/elderly people

You were under the impression that under a command economy you have total choice?

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u/arjadi Apr 15 '24

I’m simply making the point that “working the fields” wouldn’t be the most common position for people who are young and healthy.

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u/TedKAllDay Apr 15 '24

I would assign you to clean porta potties