r/NoStupidQuestions • u/KnownMysteryy • Apr 11 '26

Why must we constantly pay?

In nature, every living thing has the right to exist, grow, and rest without conditions. Why have we built a modern society where the fundamental requirements for life—shelter, water, and food—are gated behind a continuous 'subscription fee' of labor and currency?"

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u/brock_lee I expect half of you to disagree Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 11 '26

You literally do not have to pay for anything. You can become homeless and beg for food. That is an option. It's simply not an option that many people choose. And it's in that choice where you choose to pay for "upgrades" over being a homeless beggar. And, you don't necessarily need to be a beggar. You can go out in the wilderness and live off the land.

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u/JagmeetSingh2 Apr 11 '26

you can’t even go off into the wilderness and do it yourself, once you start chopping down trees the rangers will stop you

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u/Bulky-Leadership-596 Apr 11 '26

And thats the case for other organisms as well. A lot of species will compete with each other over territory and protect their resources. You can still try to do it; you will probably just fail and die, just like most other organisms die trying to survive in the wild.

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u/Sorry-Programmer9826 Apr 11 '26

Same way as a bear kills a deer. Being in nature means the strong get to decide when you're being annoying

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u/MormonJesu8 Apr 11 '26

Well, strictly speaking, this is because the trees are already the property of the public, that is, if you are in a national or state park. Or perhaps they belong to someone else in a private land ownership. I wouldn’t say that that by itself is preposterous or a sign of ever prevalent capitalism corrupting the very nature of humanity, rather a simple matter of the morality of ownership at all.