Re:Coders Automating Their Own Job
by Stratoscope on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @02:17AM
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> ...whether you believe that someone's refusal to work should condemn them to destitution.
I don't understand what you're getting at there. If someone refuses to work, that would seem to mean that they are able to work but choose not to.
We're not talking about someone who is actually unable to work because of some physical or mental limitation and may need assistance of some sort. We're taking about someone who could work but doesn't want to.
What possible obligation do I have toward that person? I don't see any. Of course I don't think they should be, as you put it, condemned to destitution. But what on earth makes it my responsibility to give them anything at all? Do I owe them a living, simply because they refuse to work?
I don't understand what you're getting at there. If someone refuses to work, that would seem to mean that they are able to work but choose not to.
We're not talking about someone who is actually unable to work because of some physical or mental limitation and may need assistance of some sort. We're taking about someone who could work but doesn't want to.
What possible obligation do I have toward that person? I don't see any. Of course I don't think they should be, as you put it, condemned to destitution. But what on earth makes it my responsibility to give them anything at all? Do I owe them a living, simply because they refuse to work?