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Those who want to end work

Everyone needs to eat. How would the society feed the individuals without working? How would farmers clear land, collect seeds, plant seeds, water the crop, weed and remove pesticides, harvest the crop and put it on a shelf for you without working? How would clothes get made? Who would pick the cotton, weave the cotton, size up the clothes and put it the shelf for you to pick out without working? What about houses? Who would go in the woods, cut the trees, pick up the tree and put it on the back of the truck and drive it the lumber mill and cut the wood into 2 by 4's, transport it to the house building site? How would oil drilling companies drill the earth for crude oil, distill the oil, harvest the left over distillate for use as asphalt, and shape it into shingles to put on the roof…


Everyone needs to eat. How would the society feed the individuals without working? How would farmers clear land, collect seeds, plant seeds, water the crop, weed and remove pesticides, harvest the crop and put it on a shelf for you without working? How would clothes get made? Who would pick the cotton, weave the cotton, size up the clothes and put it the shelf for you to pick out without working? What about houses? Who would go in the woods, cut the trees, pick up the tree and put it on the back of the truck and drive it the lumber mill and cut the wood into 2 by 4's, transport it to the house building site? How would oil drilling companies drill the earth for crude oil, distill the oil, harvest the left over distillate for use as asphalt, and shape it into shingles to put on the roof of your house without working? Who would mine the earth for limestone into drywall and install it on your home without work? Who would mine the earth for iron, melt the iron to create steel and make cars and trucks from steel to transport all of this stuff?

I agree that corporations are parasitic profiteering class of wealthy investors that benefit from doing no work. But that doesn't mean working is the problem, the parasite overclass is the problem, not the working labor class or the idea of working. Even animals need to work to build a nest and feed themselves. The way to end the corporate parasitic class is worker cooperatives like Mondragon in Spain where the profit goes to the worker not the investor.

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