• @exocrinous@startrek.website
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    28 months ago

    What you don’t have the right to is someone else to provide for you if you don’t give anything back

    Yes you do. Lots of people are on disability benefits, unemployment, a pension, or are literal children. And those programs should be expanded to cover everyone who doesn’t work, not just those who can justify their existence to a government form.

    • @flashgnash@lemm.ee
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      18 months ago

      In the case of someone who can’t work for one reason or another there’s obviously an exception because that’s not something they can help

      Children do contribute to society by getting an education and having a childhood to develop into well adjusted adults who contribute later on,

      Unemployment benefits presumably are for people actively searching for a job

      The elderly have already contributed more than their fair share raising their children

      Using the phrasing people who don’t work implies including people who are able but just don’t want to

      • @exocrinous@startrek.website
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        28 months ago

        There’s nobody like that. You’re talking about imaginary people. All human beings have a natural drive to do useful work.