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In reply to the discussion: We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. [View all]ladyVet
(1,587 posts)Most people like to work, especially if it's a job they can enjoy -- or at least tolerate -- and support themselves and their family on without giving up their souls to it.
It's this never-ending cycle of having to make more and more money to buy more and more things, because nobody is satisfied with having a few things, they have to have the latest thing, and all the other things society is shoving down their throat.
Does anybody really need an iPhone X-8000, when the two year old model works just fine, and costs one third as much? Do we really need the 100 inch, HD, AI-level television to watch reality TV? Do we really need the five-mile-to-the gallon Hummer Super Dick Enhancer?
The more people want, the more people are needed that have to slave away in horrible conditions to make it. The more people want, the cheaper they want it, leading to off-shoring or on-shoring to get production costs down, pushing even more people into slavery, because the CEOs and stockholders don't have enough money yet. They'll never have enough.