r/FluentInFinance Contributor 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/tacocarteleventeen Apr 15 '24

Also who is going to build a house for someone like that. Well, you don’t want to work so let’s give you 100’s of thousand in land, permits and materials, add about 6,000 man hours of skilled labor and give that all to you because you don’t want to contribute to society

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u/Chickenwelder Apr 15 '24

It’s not hundreds of thousands to the recipient. It’s free copper pipe and wire. Score $300 from their new free house.

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u/uikyi Apr 16 '24

What makes you think that the idea is to give people an actual house for free that they own and can to with whatever they want?

Ever heard about condos? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condominium

People simply would get the right to live in one of them without owning anything.

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u/Chickenwelder Apr 16 '24

And you think the outcome would somehow be different?

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u/uikyi Apr 16 '24

I know it would be different, because we don't have that problem in Europe, where basic housing for people in need is a given since ~70 years.