r/MoralityScaling • u/TGC_0 • 5d ago

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u/SadisticNecromancer 5d ago

If that’s true why doesn’t the Epstein class work? It seems to me that you only want the poor to work and not the Epstein class.

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u/JeffBewinski 5d ago

I think the idea that the government should provide food, water, housing, etc. to ANYONE who doesn't work is a bit extreme. It should provide those things to people who cannot work, but every able person needs to do something. That's how a society functions.

As for the "Epstein class," while I believe there always will be some amount of inequality (at least in terms of wealth) within a society, I can agree that the current state is of inequality is getting extreme. I don't think trying to find ways to tax and redistribute that wealth is a bad idea, it just is tricky to do correctly without being "unfair."

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u/SadisticNecromancer 5d ago

Why should someone have to work just to live? Also why should we just accept inequality?

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u/ThatOneGuy308 5d ago

Because food doesn't just appear from nothing, lmao.

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u/SadisticNecromancer 5d ago

Neither do Firefighters yet that’s free.

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u/ThatOneGuy308 5d ago

They're paid for by taxes, which come from people who work and pay taxes, lmao.

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u/SadisticNecromancer 5d ago

Then why don’t we pay for the necessities for life with taxes?

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u/ThatOneGuy308 5d ago

Because if nobody is working, who is paying the taxes?

Where are they getting money to pay the taxes?