Why food, shelter and clothing should be for free!!!

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36. I agree most people want to work but..

There's not many people who would be happy living in a tiny government apartment, eating government rice and beans, wearing government clothes, with nothing beyond that to look forward to. People who can live like that are probably unemployable anyways. It's life in a self-imposed prison.

The decommodified vital resources for living would be provided by mega corporations/businesses in the real estate, food, and clothing industries.
This redistribution of resources would make the low income bracket have dignified living conditions. For an example, the new low income groups would have apartments free of rats and roaches.

If we had a very strong social safety net, if finding comfortable alternative work and housing was easy, then many destructive industries of unhappiness would simply evaporate. They'd be unable to find employees.

I would add that comfortable and alternative work could pay relatively low but would provide additional resources beyond the given resources necessary for dignified living. People could choose work that paid very little but was rewarding rather than "choose" very undesirable work under our current system in order to survive. Those who refused to work for an employer or create a business to generate profits would be in the lowest income bracket but would have enough material resources to sustain dignified conditions of existence while the rich and middle class would generate additional income through either profits or employed labor.