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The problem is that picnic spread is probably over $100 alone, not counting the basket.
We still need to fucking work, we just need the people we work for to pay us anywhere remotely on the scale of survivability.
No we don't need to work, we are forced to work.
The work needs doing, and currently only humans can do it, so someone has to do it. The problem is with how it is handled. What we need is a system that incentivises working but allows people to thrive without doing it, which is a difficult balance.
Much of work humans need to do to survive has been automated with the advent of the industrial revolution (not even talking about computers and AI). We could afford to have half of the population not work. Oh wait, that was the case in the 60s when women didn't work.
Now it's difficult financially for 2 working people to raise a family of 4, despite all the automation. It's because the people who own the business we work for don't pay as much as the value we produce for them. That's why wealth is getting accumulated in the hands of few.