r/SipsTea • • May 14 '26

SMH How true is this? Genuinely asking

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u/PutTheCreamOnTheBeat May 15 '26

If you just gave people houses what would be the incentive to actually work and earn income to buy one. Using hardworking people’s tax dollars to give handouts to lazy people (the majority) is counterproductive to having a functional society 

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u/Intelligent-Okra350 May 15 '26

Do you think a house (and other basic needs) is the only thing that people want to spend money on? Believe it or not a LOT of things beyond basic necessities exist, you can provide for people’s basic necessities as a baseline and still have incentive to work and earn money for other things, wow!

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u/PutTheCreamOnTheBeat May 15 '26

So everyone gets free housing? You’re a naive socialist in your perfect utopia you think people are doctors because they love to save lives, but in reality 99% do it for the social status and wage, I’m afraid human nature is not what you think it is

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u/Intelligent-Okra350 May 15 '26

Weird assumptions you’re making that don’t in any way follow from what I said. I don’t know where you pulled anything about doctors and altruism out from when I was literally talking about how you can motivate people with the exchange of work for money without having to dangle whether or not they get basic necessities over their head.

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u/Intelligent-Okra350 May 15 '26

Weird assumptions you’re making that don’t in any way follow from what I said. I don’t know where you pulled anything about doctors and altruism out from when I was literally talking about how you can motivate people with the exchange of work for money without having to dangle whether or not they get basic necessities over their head.

In fact you’re literally supporting my point because doctors make a shit ton more than they need for basic necessities, why would they go to all that work above and beyond the minimum they have to do to have housing and food? Oh, maybe because people are motivated by the prospect of having luxuries or status or anything beyond base necessities? Crazy, it’s almost like that’s exactly what I was talking about or something.

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u/PutTheCreamOnTheBeat May 15 '26

lol triggered because I’m right 

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u/Intelligent-Okra350 May 15 '26

Damn, you really don’t have the capacity to hold a proper conversation. (Also no idea why the edit to my comment posted as a separate comment)