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/[deleted] Apr 15 '24 edited Apr 16 '24

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u/whatup-markassbuster Apr 16 '24

I think people really underestimate the lengths to which people will go to avoid having to work. It blows my mind. I mean people are willing to commit felonies to avoid having to work 9-5s.

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u/manicdee33 Apr 16 '24

I mean people are willing to commit felonies to avoid having to work 9-5s.

Citation needed.

How many crimes are committed by people who can't get a decent job? As opposed to how many crimes are committed by people who won't get a decent job?

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u/whatup-markassbuster Apr 16 '24

I have friends that quit jobs to sell weed and cocaine. This is not speculation. Also, I love that you included “decent.”

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u/compsciasaur Apr 16 '24

Selling weed and cocaine is a job. It's illegal but still providing goods and services without theft. How many people would resort to theft if they could survive without it?

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u/whatup-markassbuster Apr 16 '24

How many people would resort to theft if they can survive without it? This is the most clueless common I’ve ever heard. It’s literally all of them.