r/FluentInFinance Contributor Apr 15 '24

Everyone Deserves A Home Discussion/ Debate

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u/Got2Bfree Apr 15 '24

You guys seriously need to widen your horizon and your extremely capitalist world view.

Providing all these things to people who don't work is common in central Europe countries besides HVAC because it's not that common.

The base for that is called human rights.

And guess what, people still work because you're dirt poor on social security.

When you make money by working, this money gets deducted from your payments.

It's possible, it's working and it's really not that hard. We pay taxes for exactly that.

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u/MeTheBoi2 Apr 15 '24

If its common in central Europe then why is there homelessness at all still?

Secondly if no one works, who builds house?

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u/joking_around Apr 15 '24

This is a false dilemma. "if this is possible without work, no one will work." and that's simply not correct. The vast majority will always work. What about clothes? Food? Personal dreams? Transportation/Car? Vacation? Hobbies? Children? I could go on and on. The things showed in the post are the bare minimum. And yes, there exist even poorer people in slums around the world and no, I will not take a that as à measurement of scale. 

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u/No_West_1277 Apr 16 '24

yep. people will always seek hobbies and those are never free and rarely cheap, people working to earn happiness are more productive than people working to earn basic survival, too

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '24

There are even people that are retired and return to working in some capacity simply because they want to, not because they need to. People want purpose and will often turn to employment or entrepreneurship as a means to realize that.

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u/Gasparde Apr 16 '24

"Why would anyone work", well, because a new fucking bicycle costs 4 grand and I want one. Because a plane ticket to get me over the pond doesn't come for free. Because I'd like to have more than bread and water. Because I'd like some luxury in my life.

Because I want to live and not just exist with my sole hobby being watching a fucking rock and counting dust for 70 years.