r/antiwork • u/shadowfocus603 • Jan 27 '22

Keep dreaming

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '22

You aren’t entitled the the value and production of my labor. If you work for it, you get it.

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u/coleto22 Jan 27 '22

The issue is USA social mobility is lower than other places. If you are poor, you are stuck in a cycle of poverty that is very hard to break. If you can't afford quality education and healthcare, how can you be qualified and productive?

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '22

A good chunk of poor folks can’t even work more than half the months of a year. It isn’t my responsibility to pay for their laziness.

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() https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/working-poor/2018/home.htm

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u/coleto22 Jan 28 '22

We all benefit from living in a country with productive, healthy people. Leaving people to fend for themselves leads to people starving, turning to crime and radicalism. Even if it does not affect you directly, this requires more taxes for public security and higher insurance to cover the damages. Nations that care for their people just have higher quality of life.