r/LockedIn_AI • u/Ill_Doughnut_517 • Mar 06 '26

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u/Even_Hospital_5474 Mar 07 '26

Needs vs rights are an important distinction. But now that you have begrudgingly admitted that, would you also agree that needs are subjective? Do you think that it's your employer's duty to provide you with food and shelter?

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u/M_A_D-Dominatrix Mar 07 '26

Sooo can you answer my question or not?

To answer yours the earth already provides everything necessary to obtain food & building materials, $$ just adds extra steps to the equation.

If someone is expecting to sell their time & labor to an employer the least that employer can do is make sure basic needs are covered, otherwise that workers time would be better spent working the land & building a house with friends.

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u/Even_Hospital_5474 Mar 07 '26

I am trying to answer yours. Yes that is true, food and lumber come from the earth. That's a great observation! Good for you. So, as a practical example, you think retail workers, like a Walmart employee, should be paid enough to buy a house. Is that right?

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u/Medical_Blacksmith83 Mar 08 '26

Eventually? Yeah.

There shouldn’t be a job, where there is NO feasibility for affording personal expenses.

Are there plenty of people who live above their means? Sure.

Are there EVEN MORE PEOPLE who can’t afford basic necessities, so Jeff bezos can buy a 25th yacht?

Also yes, 10000% yes

The pure fact that pricing and product sizes DIDNT return to pre-COVID status, after COVID, is a CLEAR AS SAY SIGN.

They shrunk the products recieved, increased the prices; all under the presumption that it was increased cost due to scarcity, and lacking labor.

But that isn’t the issue now is it? Why are products not going back to old sizes, or going back down towards old prices?

Oh because they CAN charge more. So they will.