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A comment on Montana to cancel unemployment benefits to address severe workforce shortage. Parent comment

Re:Montana to cancel unemployment benefits to address severe... by BurningFrog on Thursday May 06, 2021 @09:21AM (#27062802)
> Work is what we do for others.

And since others do so much for me, it's only fair that I do something for them.

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Re:Montana to cancel unemployment benefits to address severe... by machinebun on Thursday May 06, 2021 @10:40AM (#27063971)
Labor used to be directly related to our ability to feed ourselves (when everyone was a farmer / hunter gatherer). No work = no eat.

Nowadays, we have more productivity as a species if we do specific labor instead in order to feed ourselves, but the premise is the same. No work = no eat (at least until you have enough savings/investments to afford not to work). At least until theoretically automation takes all of the jobs.

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