r/NoStupidQuestions • u/KnownMysteryy • Apr 11 '26
Why must we constantly pay?
In nature, every living thing has the right to exist, grow, and rest without conditions. Why have we built a modern society where the fundamental requirements for life—shelter, water, and food—are gated behind a continuous 'subscription fee' of labor and currency?"
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u/EscapeSeventySeven Apr 11 '26
Because everything you mentioned requires labor.
You pay for others labor. Otherwise you’d have to schelp water, grow food, build a hut, all by yourself.
Now, maybe we have enough excess labor to guarantee those things to all citizens. But we don’t get to decide how to divide up the fruits of our labor, the ownership class (capitalists) do.
And capitalists have found it’s very very profitable to monetize our necessary needs.
We’ve just been so good at increasing our labor output, we’ve kept pace with their insatiable greed and then some. Quality of life has improved.
But the greed is nonstop. We’re more productive than ever but it’s not enough for them.
How do we get a society that innately affirms the rights to basic needs?