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How is working for money slavery?

Do you believe food just magically appears on your plate, water cleans itself, your plumbing just happens to work, medical services operate autonomously etc.?

The problem here, is you're an elitist. For you, your boring desk job is slavery so you want the freedom to go about doing whatever you want while the peasants provide you the means to continue being fat happy without providing anything back to society.

You're speaking from a small minded subset of white collar society that has the inability to understand how society operates as a whole. What you want is to subject a certain class to "slavery" to support your endeavors.

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> Do you believe food just magically appears on your plate, water cleans itself, your plumbing just happens to work, medical services operate autonomously etc

Every politician I meet I ask the same question: what do we do when automation has driven the value of nearly all human labor down to pennies? None have an answer. Nobody that's a big fan of the current system has given me an answer other than "it'll never happen," but it seems inevitable to me.

The usa already subsidizes food non productivity to maintain stable prices for agriculture. So why don't they just stop doing that so food does magically appear on my plate? Is maintaining broken market dynamics in every aspect of life so important that it justifies some going hungry, some working two jobs, all of us working 40 hours a week until we're 60?

You realize food rots right?

Not exactly sure your point. Sure, yes, food rots. Glad we can agree?

> How is working for money slavery?

Its not, but the way the money is distributed and created is. For example during the 2008 crisis because the velocity of money fell, banks were desperate to get people spending again so interest free £million were offered to the rich in order to get them to spend money in the economy, reinforcing the trickle down concept.

> is you're an elitist.

What gave you that impression?

> that has the inability to understand how society operates as a whole.

So explain it then? Explain society.

> want is to subject a certain class to "slavery" to support your endeavors.

I think you are further from the truth, if I could take a pill or an injection to end my live in a non barbaric way today, I would take it. Unfortunately thats not on offer because society dictates I need to be tortured to support it.

My life has already been stolen, and there isnt the science to replace it.

I did explain it to you. YOU want a certain class of people to continue working and providing the sustenance it takes to maintain your modern standard of living while not contributing at all yourself. SOMEONE will have to maintain emergency services, food, and water. Why do you think you alone should get to opt out of the system?

You CANNOT obtain the lifestyle you're going on about with out a sub-class of individuals that do have to continue working these supposedly "slave labor" jobs you're talking about. This makes you an elitist. You think you deserve to live a care free life while others are forced to maintain that for you.

You need an attitude adjustment and you need to put some perspective in place before it's too late. You're not thankful for what you've got.

Why not robots?

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