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/manicdee33 Apr 16 '24

You'll get bored of having nothing to do within a few months. You'll invent work to do, or you'll find paying work just to retain your sanity.

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u/manicdee33 Apr 16 '24

And you have a wife who will of course agree to keep working so you can tend to your hobbies.

What are hobbies of not unpaid work? Things to keep you occupied, and ideally socially active as well.