I didn’t write the original post, but did post it and it’s informative how much people get caught on that phrase. My take is that people are paying a gatekeeper. It’s not about “does it take effort to live” or an appeal to return to nature. It’s, “you have to work to live, plus you have to work extra so someone else doesn’t have to work.”
Not sure I’d lead with that specific phrase in the future, but it does seem to have generated a lot of interest and discussion.
Yeah, I get the overall idea, I’m just being pedantic. You can’t just live your life without paying somebody for the privilege of existence, we’re basically still medieval peasants paying a Lord for the right to live in his fiefdom. If you look over a map of the US/Western world, probably very square foot of land is owned by somebody somewhere. We’re trading the value of our labor, which has been artificially suppressed for the value of a piece of property, which have been artificially inflated. It’s all very one-sided and benefits people who provide seemingly no real value to society.
I didn’t write the original post, but did post it and it’s informative how much people get caught on that phrase. My take is that people are paying a gatekeeper. It’s not about “does it take effort to live” or an appeal to return to nature. It’s, “you have to work to live, plus you have to work extra so someone else doesn’t have to work.”
Not sure I’d lead with that specific phrase in the future, but it does seem to have generated a lot of interest and discussion.
Yeah, I get the overall idea, I’m just being pedantic. You can’t just live your life without paying somebody for the privilege of existence, we’re basically still medieval peasants paying a Lord for the right to live in his fiefdom. If you look over a map of the US/Western world, probably very square foot of land is owned by somebody somewhere. We’re trading the value of our labor, which has been artificially suppressed for the value of a piece of property, which have been artificially inflated. It’s all very one-sided and benefits people who provide seemingly no real value to society.