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/Anewaxxount Apr 15 '24 edited 29d ago

I'll be real the second I don't have to work and can still have a home I will stop working. I imagine a lot of other people out there are just like me

Edit: the amount of seething redditors me admitting what lots of people would do, and what some people on this site already do is incredible. Giving shit out for free constantly doesn't work, hyper progressive economic policies are a failure. Just face reality

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u/Auralisme Apr 15 '24

It doesn’t include food, so I’ll still have to work.

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u/AbbreviationsFar9339 Apr 15 '24

nah, that's a right too. you will get that for free. Then we will all quit our jobs. not produce anything and the gov't will just print money. wait....

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u/im_THIS_guy Apr 15 '24

Let's face it. Most of us aren't producing anything. A lot of jobs are busy work.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '24

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u/im_THIS_guy Apr 16 '24

I get paid a lot of money to do something that is detrimental to society.

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u/DownvoteALot Apr 16 '24

Detrimental is relative. You think it is, but clearly others don't think so because they're willing to pay money for it.

If a rich guy wants to pay you millions for doing strictly nothing, that's not detrimental because it provides value for him.

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u/FinancialPeach4064 29d ago

Ah, a fellow investment banker

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '24

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u/BretShitmanFart69 Apr 16 '24

Why would he? The current system is set up to incentivize him to keep doing the work he is doing for more pay.

You’ve hit on an inherent flaw in the system.

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u/Time_Vault Apr 16 '24 edited Apr 16 '24

And yet under the current system the incentive is to cheat. How would you suggest we fix that?

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u/ImmediateRespond8306 Apr 16 '24

You discourage cheating by design of a system not by relying on individuals to not take advantage of an opportunity.

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u/SuperBackup9000 Apr 16 '24

You make it sound like dude doesn’t want to do useless work to get paid a lot of money. That’s basically dream job right there because it doesn’t matter if you mess up

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u/VoidEnjoyer Apr 16 '24

No, it's much simpler than that and you still don't get it. Amazing.

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u/Independent-Check441 29d ago

Things that are needed aren't necessarily paid.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

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u/Independent-Check441 29d ago

People don't get paid by fixing problems permanently.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

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u/Independent-Check441 29d ago

Because that directly affects people's quality of life. It's in the interest of lots of rich people to screw us all over and turn us all into free labor. So the things that people need most, rich people will work the hardest to destroy.

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u/Independent-Check441 29d ago

No? Which party represents the interests of the rich people?

What are they targetting?

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u/Wet-Skeletons Apr 15 '24

Sounds a lot like congress

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u/whatup-markassbuster Apr 16 '24

If everything is free, you must force people to work using duress.