Should people not work if they don't want to?

I didn't realise that real people ever thought like this. I've never met any.

Your friend sounds stupid.

If no one is working who's making the food? Who's got the facilities running? Who provides your water and electricity? Who keeps law and order in your area? Fuckin knobhead your friend is

He sounds like a retarded idealist, and even his ideals are deeply flawed. Who the fuck is going to provide all the free stuff if nobody works?

You've got countries around the world where everyone is working, and even then they're still not able to provide enough food for the population.

I find people on this site are generally quite nice, and it's not a very toxic place, so I don't really want to go too hard on this and bring that level of toxicity in, but suffice to say I would take any political insult given by your friend as a compliment.

Hardworking people having their earnings stolen by deadbeats reeks of injustice and unfairness.

You should reap what you sow, and if you don't sow, you should reap nothing, so to speak.

Such a system would never work, because the people who do work would eventually become resentful towards the lazy people.

The bums would be forsaken by society, and they would have no power to stop whatever happened to them, because they would have no leverage, and no worth in the community.

The only way it would "work" is if the government oppressed everyone. Fuck that.

commie bastards

If they want to be a bum it's their choice.

Good luck in the gulag

If he is willing to live in the woods and live off squirrels and berries, go for it.

I think homesteading should be allowed but free houses, nope. Free food, sure if you kill or harvest it yourself.

Sounds like he would enjoy communism. Purchase him a ticket to Russia and bid him a fond Adieu.

I agree with him that everyone should be given free houses/food and that the mega rich shouldn't be allowed, but people would still need to work even when they don't want to. All those undesirable (yet vital) jobs aren't gonna do themselves. I do think though that the people who do those jobs should be paid and respected as much as, if not more than, the people who do the high-status jobs in our society. Also education should be completely free up to, and including, college.

If your friend is suspicious of the government, then why does he want put himself in a position to be dependent on the government for his care? The rich and businesses don't pay for non-workers directly, they would have to pay high taxes (which would force them to raise prices) and the government controls which non-workers get what. Talk about being a puppet then!

You're friend sounds awful.

If he doesn't want to work, he doesn't have to. However, the hard-working people who make the food desire money to buy what they need to live, so he's gonna need to get that money from somewhere if he wants to live longer than a month. It's the system we all live in.

i agree with this. what in the world can cause someone to deny care that someone needs or say that a person deserves to live out in the streets hungry everyday. it is hateful and ridiculous. there is no reason for this. it is hard to make a living. the prices on apartments are ridiculous. the prices on food are ridiculous. everyone needs to eat, have a place to stay and several other necessities that are not needing to be denied. also people need luxury to be happy. you are rich so you get to be happy. you make enough money to be happy. it really should not matter how much money you make. the point of everything is happiness even if it is a collective movement where one person's or group's happiness cannot oppress other people's happiness.

That's extremely unfair for rich people. Why in the world should they give all those money they spent ages earning to random person who doesn't want to work? This system will not work well because nobody would want to work hard, considering that no matter how hard they work, they would always get the same thing.

If somebody is disabled and cannot work, yeah, he probably should be given free housing and stuff. But someone who's perfectly capable of working, just that he's lazy and doesn't want to work? Nah.

If you don't want to work and you're capable of not working, then don't. I don't plan to work until I have to so I understand that - should everything be supplied to you? No, besides the bare necessities perhaps. I'm just lucky enough to be in a situation where I am able to live without working yet

No work put them in the army

I have a friend who has similar thoughts. Of course his idea is "redistribution of wealth". Even if they divided everything up equally among everyone, most of it would end up back into the hands of the ones who were rich before such a scam took place.

People forget that others have to work in order to make food, housing, etc possible. No matter what our jobs are, we are somehow contributing to society.
Plus, I imagine that if someone DID have to provide their own food like growing or killing it, that would be way more work than what most people presently do.

That's like living on a farm. The system has changed and our modern lifestyles cannot be supported by bartering like in the olden days.

You're friend is in love with his own seductive thinking. So was Karl Marx.

Not normal. In every part of world there are the rich and the poor.