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To: babble-on

Socialism is one solution, just give stuff to everyone whether they work or not, but it fosters terrible qualities in human beings. Even when the economic value of working is meaningless, the moral value of HAVING to work is enormous.


I agree. I remember as a kid in the 1960’s, I imagined a world where nobody had to work because of robotics. And in that utopia, everyone would get a living wage, but they could work to afford nicer things, travel, etc.

I realized just a couple of years ago that we actually live in that utopia. It’s really a dystopia. Those “living wage” people are called welfare recipients. Their neighborhoods are quite dangerous. They are in no way happy people.


23 posted on 01/10/2017 8:20:30 AM PST by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: Mr. Douglas

We should write a book together because that’s exactly right.

People now don’t even bother moving from regions where there are no jobs and no hope of jobs, because just enough money comes in from the state to keep them warmish and well-fed, and they can obtain drugs and other vices in sufficient quantities to make life bearable on a surface level.

But it’s desperately depressing on a moral level, which they do feel, and they want someone to blame. But whom?


35 posted on 01/10/2017 8:53:09 AM PST by babble-on
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