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This view is hilarious. That you think you can sit around and produce nothing while everyone else around you produces everything you need. Or that everyone can stop what they're doing and still provide you with that. You're just lazy with dreams of contributing nothing and thats not admirable. Until the day where robots are literally walking around wiping our ass, people need to do things.

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> That you think you can sit around and produce nothing while everyone else around you produces everything you need.

Yet that's exactly what the "leisure class" do. Inherit enough money and that's your life. Why is that not equally hilarious? Why do only some of us get to have that and it's OK?

The vast majority of people who have money didnt inherit it. The vast majority worked for it.

You dont have it because you didnt earn it. Instead you're on the internet demanding like a child that you dont need to work for anything. Thats the difference between people with money and yourself.

I'm not asking for money. I'm asking why it's OK to inherit money from your parents and do nothing useful your whole life. Why do we give those people a free pass?

People who receive money dont necessarily expect and demand to sit on their ass. It just happens to them and they got lucky.

And theres not a "pass" you or anyone else is entitled to give. Its not your property or family matter.

Nobody ever earned a billion dollars.

This is what people who have never built anything like to say.

Bezos as an example built a great service. An exchange of value between willing customers and what he created happens repeatedly. Therefore he earned the billions. Thats how it works. The more value you create for the most people makes you more money. And I cant think of a more fair system.

He didn't build all that by himself, and there's (hundreds of) thousands of workers doing the actual physical work for him.

Those Amazon servers don't magically teleport the packages to the customers.

All because he's lobbied, and continues to lobby, to not pay enough taxes. The tax system is unbelievably unfair.

It's not fair because some people inherit enough money to never have to work. If you actually wanted a fair system then we would all spend our childhoods in a boarding school with no contact with our parents, and no inheritance. But that's not feasible, so we're stuck with this unfair system. But let's not pretend it's fair.

Those who "create value" often don't. The continuing enshittification of everything is removing value from customers, yet the CEOs who are forcing it on their customers are getting paid vast salaries. We all know that they're destroying value and that their organisations will eventually be replaced by ones that actually value customers, but they continue to be rewarded.

You have a very naive view of capitalism.

The simple fix is to scale the maximum work week based on available work, partially socializing the efficient gain from AI to society which provided much of the training data.

How much can be up for debate, but giving it all to corporates is going to be a replay of the run up to WW2

You completely misconstrued what I said actually.

I like working, I like making things, I just don't care about having a "job" which I tie my identity too.

I know that must jobs are bullshit jobs and the fact many need to show up to them just to provide for their family is stupid. Maybe a 3 hour day would be more realistic.

Also, I have a Japanese Toto I imported from Japan, it's literally a robotic toilet that wipes my ass for me. Try again angry man.

> the day where robots are literally walking around wiping our ass

You jest, but there's quite a lot of elderly, frail, incontinent boomers who are or soon will be in need of this service.

The Millennials zoomers and alphas seem to have little to no interest in doing the asswiping themselves.

It's called a washlet or a bidet, check it out.

Check his username.

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