I’ve seen various folks use this statement throughout this sub and I have a hard time understanding it. As I understand, the notion is:
Working shouldn’t be required to provide your basic needs of living.
From my perspective, you need to use your time to provide yourself value. The most valuable things we have is food and shelter so at a minimum you are providing a service, to make money, which is exchanged for food and shelter.
So how do we abolish this? In theory, you could try to survive without any job at all working as a subsistence farmer
My great grandparents immigrated from Scandinavia in 1900’s to the US. They bought cheap land, built a home from the timber on the property and farmed for their food. In this day in age they would be consider highly impoverished but, they were not employed by a business. I would argue that they had to work much more than the average person living in developed nations in this day in age for a lesser quality of life (by todays standards).
My question to the group: if your respective government gave out free plots of land in the center of your country to folks who were looking for an off ramp to the rat race, would you move and become a subsistence farmer to meet your basic needs? If not, how would you propose people provide for their basic needs without exchanging their time for currency?