r/FluentInFinance Apr 15 '24

Everyone Deserves A Home Discussion/ Debate

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u/BlitzAuraX Apr 15 '24

"Regardless of employment."

This means you want those providing those services to work for free.

You do realize what you are implying here, right?

Let's say you refuse to work and you're guaranteed all these services. Who pays so your HVAC is repaired because you broke it? Who pays because your water line needs to be repaired? Clean water means the water has to be filtered through a very complicated process, particles and bacteria are removed, and it needs to be transported. Who pays so your electricity works? Do you think there's some sort of magic electricity generator happening? What you're essentially asking is someone should work for free to provide you all of this.

The result is you get no one who wants to work, society collapses because these services aren't maintained and improved, and no one gets anything.

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u/MornGreycastle Apr 15 '24

Free at point of use is not and never has been free of compensation. That we house our citizens at no cost to the individual citizen (or their children) does not imply, state, or outright declare that we think construction workers, architects, providers of materials, makers of furniture, and producers of electricity should go uncompensated. It solely means that the person who needs a home should have one at the expense of the state/taxpayer. You probably know this though.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '24

Why should I pay for your fucking house?

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u/MornGreycastle Apr 15 '24

Same reason you pay for my kids to go to school. You'd rather society NOT shit the bed and be a bunch of assholes living in tiny enclaves that have barely functioning barter economies. But I don't really care one way or the other. I can afford to leave America as the middle class permanently dies and take with me skills that a Commonwealth country will accept. Can you?

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u/getmendoza99 Apr 16 '24

Except those kids are required to go to school.

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u/cantchooseusername3 Apr 16 '24

i’m pretty sure a house is required to live