You still can. It will just suck and inconvenience after awhile.
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You don't have to have a "job", but then your "job" will be daily survival instead of paying for luxuries.
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The image accurately depicts what would happen to 98% of all people: lying dead by the river, starved or killed or died by disease.
When I saw the pic all I could think of was the horrendous amount of ticks that person may now be hosting.
I've never heard of this rampant deadly disease that targets the unemployed.
when no one works, this person will not have blue jeans, shoes, socks, shampoo, toothbrush, underwear, shirt, soap, domicile, clean hygienic food, sanitary conditions, assisted travel... electricity for their internet points - just for starters.
Sure, when noone is forced into wage slavery, everyone will just waste away and do and produce nothing. That's why we all died out before humanity discovered various forms of servitude.
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Well I guess it's good that very few people would choose to do absolutely nothing if they could literally do anything instead of settling into something they don't like at all just to survive.
Go work in an ER. The homeless are super susceptible to all kinds of diseases.
I doubt that in a society of abundance and equality, everyone would choose to live homeless.
Cool, soooo if we're all no longer working, then who's taking care of food production? Shelter? Medical care? Defense? Maintenance? Etc.
There is a happy medium.... everyone not having jobs is not it. A lot of jobs are hard work but benefit society heavily.
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I tried to explain to my Christian friend that (if) god created the world for us to live in. They didn't create the 5 days, 9-5 work week.
Having to ask your boss to get a day off should go against every human spirit. But no. Some people will bow down to the grind (just to complain every week about the 9-5)
Does anyone even have a 9-5 anymore?
Every job I have seen in the last decade is 8-5 with (optional/not-optional working) lunch.
Plus availability after hours...
Also 9-5 has never been true especially if you commute. Most jobs are 8-5 or longer plus commute…..
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This world has a massive lack of frolicking. Our numbers are way down on that front and it shows.
Only sometimes eh? Pump those numbers up rookie
She didn't explain the other sometimes she thinks that the proletariat should rise up....
Man, you shoulda been here. The ground was full of stuff to eat, the air was still of stuff to eat, you could drink all the water. Sometimes we wouldn't eat much for a few weeks, but we'd dance and take drugs and play games and have crazy sex to get through it. And ofc, we always had beef jerky.
Oh, and we did this all day with our best friends, who we never had to leave. It was pretty sweet.
But hey, now there are big pretty churches and supermarkets full of only half-poisoned food and billionaires and AC. Though, the air hurts, the sun hurts, the water hurts, and everything is mostly dead. So, that's a trade-off. How's your childhood best friend doing?
Fuck "sometimes", I wish that all the time.
Sometimes??
itt: capitalist bootlickers
You don't have to work. But you also won't have food, shelter, and Lemmy.
Antibiotics. I really like antibiotics. If I had to choose between antibiotics and internet, I'd choose them.
I'm happy to work, in fact I'd probably see myself out if I couldn't keep myself occupied.
What I want is for the effort and care I put into my work to be reflected back on to me and my life, I have watched businesses make millions of dollars off my work alone and I have been paid minimum wage for that work.
Bit fucken' unfair ain't it mate?
We could have it, if we grouped up and fought for it. Free humanity from the burden of unwanted labours.
When I get hungry, I just start grazing.
We're all like minded here but the reality is that some people want work as distraction from their personal lives.
I don't mind doing unpaid things for other human beings (if it matters, if conditions aren't terrible)... but things like interviews, driving, and paperwork I wouldn't want to do even if I were paid for them (not that it's even a thing). And really between housing, driving, and all types of insurance... I don't see much hope for a decent life.
Most things seem like scams or junk anyway (extortion if it's actually useful, reliable, or good for health), get me out of here. Physically put my brain in a Matrix if you must (not the Facebook digital-real-estate one).
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