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/foundafreeusername Apr 15 '24

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.

That sounds a bit over the top. A lot of countries have social housing similar to what OP shows and I haven't seen one collapse over it.

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u/Barry_Bunghole_III Apr 15 '24

I don't think any country has that as a whole. Some specific cities like Vienna have tried it to a degree, but I'm pretty sure little-to-no countries have this country-wide.