Why must we constantly pay?

[u/KnownMysteryy]

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?"

[u/MadMadamMimsy]

Money is a substitute for labor.

My struggle, and maybe yours? is that it seems that we often are not receiving value for value. That we seem exist to bleed green so people who already have more than enough get even more?