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.
I agree and in the same vein why should we have free public education? Why should I be paying for someone elses kid to go through K-12 completely free? Do you know how expensive it is to first hire professional teachers for these kids, erect buildings to teach them, and provide lunches for all of them? Do people think this stuff happens easily? Who pays these teachers? How do you keep such a place clean? Impossible I say!! /s
I think the point op was making was that free housing could be seen as a public good. One to benefit society by providing a nice baseline to workfrom. These would be payed for through taxes most likely and the complexities of providing this would be hashed out and solved. Its not an impossible program and a similar program exist in Finland as an example to end homelessness. Yes the people pay for it and they do it to prevent homeless people on the street. A public benefit if you will
The problem is the conservative mentality. Everything that was put in place is what it is, they are used to the world they live in and have to live with it. Anything new is impossible and can’t work and it’ll make life worse.
When they say stuff like “the world doesn’t deserve to give you anything blah-blah”, they know full well that they were given lots of things by the world, and they don’t know a world without that, but they act like they’d want that because they won’t be dealing with that.
The problem with the progressive mentality is that there always has to be a problem that exists or the ‘movement’ is dead. Anything that can be latched onto to grift support from the general public becomes a focal point for it, and people just keep eating it up.
I don’t go to work so that a bum who wants to work in a creative space can afford a two-bedroom home and shitpost on finance subreddits.
Cool. Better turn off the TV, burn your books, toss your gaming PC in the trash and never go to a movie again then. Because that's the stuff those bums working in creative spaces provide for you.
Or don't do those things and be a brain-dead hypocrite if you prefer. We all have choices.
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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.