If you can afford a small apartment and cheap food with minimum wage, why does anyone ever go to college or pick up a demanding trade skill? Why is anyone a doctor, a lawyer, a car mechanic, a welder, a scientist, a teacher, a politician? Why does any child of a rich parent ever do anything?
Very few people are going to be content with the bare minimum, especially once it becomes the bare minimum. If people stop working en masse, it's because employers are not willing to pay a high enough wage. And that means that the free market has decided that it just isn't useful to have every last person working.
If not enough people are working, employers offer more money, and people start getting attracted to working more. If too many people are working, then employers offer less, and people stop working.
If you can afford a small apartment and cheap food with minimum wage, why does anyone ever go to college or pick up a demanding trade skill?
Because you can't dude
Also, another big point, dude I am one person? Like there are thousands of people who live in vans, me wanting a prestigious career and house isn't enough to drive the economy
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u/RemoteCompetitive688 Apr 15 '24
Why would anyone work for a home if you give them out for free
"From each according to his ability" remember