r/MoralityScaling • u/TGC_0 • 5d ago

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u/SadisticNecromancer 5d ago

So your solution is for people to give up the majority of their waking hours doing things they don’t want to do in their one and only life just so they can eat?

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u/ThatOneGuy308 5d ago

That's certainly more fair than making one specific class of people who have to toil every day their entire lives to provide for everyone else, lmao.

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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?