“People simply empty out”

Re:“People simply empty out” by mason240 on Thursday August 15, 2013 @09:05PM (#6221616)

I'm curious to know just how you think humanity will be able to feed, shelter, and entertain itself if no does anything.

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Re:“People simply empty out” by wwweston on Thursday August 15, 2013 @09:31PM (#6221705)

If literally no one did any work, then yes, we'd have trouble with this.

However, most industrial societies, things are long past the point where most people would need to work full time in order to feed and shelter their populations -- we now employ a decided minority of the labor force doing those essentials.

Apparently instead of reaping a leisure dividend, though, we've decided other things are more important. Perhaps some of them even are.

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Re:“People simply empty out” by chii on Friday August 16, 2013 @02:39AM (#6222513)

and why would those "minority of people" doing all the work agree to share their fruits with you (who is not working!)?

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Re:“People simply empty out” by Dylan16807 on Saturday August 17, 2013 @06:33PM (#6230604)

Taxes. They might complain but they still have 10x as much money as non-workers.

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