Similar to "make money", it's an insidious Orwellian mislead.
"Make money" =~= "profit" =~= "wealth extraction".
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Well, the reality is that it does take work to live, sort of by definition. That is unless you envision life as existing in some sort of techno-uterus, being pumped full of nutrients a la the Matrix. But seriously, a fulfilling life does take work. A social safety net shouldn't mean there is no expectation to work. There should be both.
I agree 100% with you. Everyone wants to be a socialist/communist until they realize that you still have to put in your fair share. There isn't some magical system where everything is suddenly free for everyone. Mooching off others isn't the way ANY economic system works. It's what we have now, and it's failing. Just because it's you instead of some fat cat doesn't change the fact that someone is trying to get something for free. Everyone works so that everyone prospers. What needs to change is who owns the labor. You work for what you have, not what someone else takes from you. Maybe one day we can live in an automated utopia where all our basic needs are provided for us, but we aren't there yet, and anyone who says we are is ignoring the other thread they just spent ten minutes writing a comment in about how the AI bubble is about to burst.
Squirrels manage to live without capitalism and "worth". Their trees aren't "owned" and leased out by different squirrels that require them to spend a third of their day foraging for acorns not to eat, but to give the treelords so they have the basic need of shelter.
Can you even consider that how you think about life is a direct result of brainwashing?
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Isaac Asimov said that in the future one third of the population would be scientists working on new discoveries; one third would be engineers mananging all the technology; and one third would be entertainers.
Well, I think we are on track with the entertainers part, at least.
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There are a few folks who don't deserve to be alive... Unfortunately they don't need to "earn a living" as they happened to be born silver spoon in hand...
No one “makes money” they transfer it.