Re: The rise
"But society doesn't just say, "you must work a job or you'll starve, you lazy bastard." It says, "you must do work that adds to GDP and thus is worth paying you for, or you'll starve.""
Reality says if you don't gather fruit you can't eat fruit. And you can't eat more fruit than you gather. Reality doesn't care about your value as a person, but society actually does. And you can get free fruit from food banks and free money from the government.
You might have great skills as a typesetter or a Klingon translator, but if nobody wants what you make then you have to gather your own fruit. You can't expect others to do it for you and trade their effort for yours. You need to do something for me or I am not obligated to do anything for you. If I am obligated by force to give you the product of my labour but there is no obligation put on you, then why would I work? I can quit my job and join the privileged class instead.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
