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| Topic | I made this topic before,but I forgot: Explain how working to live isn't slavery |
| Zeus 10/22/18 3:08:10 AM #32: | Kyuubi4269 posted... How? It's paying for a safety net available to all if necessary, who's compelled to work here? Who's owned? The taxpayers are compelled to devote their money to people who put in no labor. That's the closest you'll get to a traditional idea of slavery. And that "safety net" isn't available to everybody in equal measure. Most of us would be ineligible to receive the kinds of benefits that others have been getting all their lives. Kyuubi4269 posted... As is necessary to live outside control. Which is the point, you can't legally live outside some form of forced servitude. You literally can, though. He was ONLY arrested because he was robbing people. And you claim that you can't live without forced servitude (which isn't even a thing right now) while simultaneously acknowledging in the same post that people ARE living off the government without earning income. More to the point, you don't have forced servitude right now. Taxes may be a thing, but if you don't earn or own, you don't have to pay taxes. Likewise, there are exemptions from taxes as well. And, of course, the labor itself is 100% voluntary. Not to mention all the people who don't pay taxes at all. --- (\/)(\/)|-| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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