On "antiwork" and necessary labor

[k9bfriender]

@steronz

The conflict is that if 100% of people took society up on this offer to have all of their basic needs met without having to work, the system would fail. That’s all.

I thought we were doing this in another thread.

The 'if everyone did it' argument

Picking up pebbles from the beach, in the UK, is apparently a crime, punishable by a £1000 fine, so I am informed. Now, I don’t really see it as a very significant problem if a kid wants to take home a shiny rock as a souvenir of a beach holiday. (Of course I understand there are places where it might be considered taboo, which is a different thing, and there are exceptional cases like mineral deposits that are considered to be part of a national monument - such as the Moqui Marbles ‘But if e…