This question comes from the “what if everyone just wants to do nothing” to justify the existence of a system in which if you are not able to work you die.
Everyone is guaranteed a job, so if they don’t want to then they will just have less money to go around, or maybe they wouldn’t even need to if what they did is automated. However, regardless of whether they work or not, they are guaranteed food and housing. So they just get to do whatever they want. In a communist system someone livelihood is not tied to a job.
The problem is people dont just do nothing, they have to survive somehow and that usually requires the help of their community. If someone wants to be part of a group (country) it makes sense to require that person contribute back at least something.
A good example is the Uyghur forced labor in China, which China frames as the government providing jobs, training, and pay for that group of people.
I’m not really convinced its possible for someone to truly live off their own means. They’d have to be born in the wild and live there their whole life essentially.
This question comes from the “what if everyone just wants to do nothing” to justify the existence of a system in which if you are not able to work you die.
Everyone is guaranteed a job, so if they don’t want to then they will just have less money to go around, or maybe they wouldn’t even need to if what they did is automated. However, regardless of whether they work or not, they are guaranteed food and housing. So they just get to do whatever they want. In a communist system someone livelihood is not tied to a job.
The problem is people dont just do nothing, they have to survive somehow and that usually requires the help of their community. If someone wants to be part of a group (country) it makes sense to require that person contribute back at least something.
A good example is the Uyghur forced labor in China, which China frames as the government providing jobs, training, and pay for that group of people.
I’m not really convinced its possible for someone to truly live off their own means. They’d have to be born in the wild and live there their whole life essentially.