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How many acres are you personally willing to farm to let others eat without payment “in a just world”?

How many days per month are you willing to pick up trash, sit in a fire station, or teach elementary school?

It’s not slavery (if you) that other people won’t give you their output without payment. In fact, it’s closer to being slavery in the other direction if they have to work and you get the benefits of their output without payment…



> In fact, it’s closer to being slavery in the other direction if they have to work and you get the benefits of their output without payment…

This sounds a lot like you've been conditioned to think there can't be an alternative to the current system. Even if I don't know what a better system would be, I can absolutely imagine that there are better options than what we've got. We should all want that and push for that and ask ourselves what it might be until we find it.

I can tell you this much about what I think would be part of that better system: we wouldn't leave people to sleep on the streets and we wouldn't have for-profit healthcare.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.


The slavery comes with not being paid in proportion to the value provided.


Assuming that a farm would be owned by one person has already put a very tiny box around your world view


My comment makes no assumption whatsoever about the ownership of the farm. It only talks about the labor of farming, not the capital.

Perhaps it is your own point of view of seeing everything as an ownership problem that has you looking out from inside a too-small box.




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