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Genuine questions for this subreddit.

Do you pity people who work towards career goals? For instance, someone who is going through residency to be a doctor. Do you think society would be better if those people didn't work towards career goals? Would-be engineers or doctors simply decided to tune out of society and “idle.” What is the problem with having to earn a living? The default human condition is one of suffering and struggling for survival. The ability to be lazy and survive is an extremely new condition for our species. Why are you entitled to the labor of others when you yourself do not want to work? For instance housing, if you want free housing then who exactly pays for the labor of all those people who built, maintained and designed that house? Who decides what is fair in terms of wages and labor? If you ran a business would you be the employer…


  1. Do you pity people who work towards career goals? For instance, someone who is going through residency to be a doctor.
  2. Do you think society would be better if those people didn't work towards career goals? Would-be engineers or doctors simply decided to tune out of society and “idle.”
  3. What is the problem with having to earn a living? The default human condition is one of suffering and struggling for survival. The ability to be lazy and survive is an extremely new condition for our species.
  4. Why are you entitled to the labor of others when you yourself do not want to work? For instance housing, if you want free housing then who exactly pays for the labor of all those people who built, maintained and designed that house?
  5. Who decides what is fair in terms of wages and labor? If you ran a business would you be the employer who provides the wages and conditions everyone found “fair” at your own expense?

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