• admiralteal@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    Absent the coercion brought on by the threat of starvation, illness, and homelessness, most people wouldn’t be able to handle a lot of minimum wage jobs. They wear down your body and soul. But having a gun pointed at you and your family is a hell of a motivator.

    Who cares, though? Laziness is not the problem with billionaires. I wish for everyone to live in a world where they can get away with being “lazy”. Where they can pursue their passions and refuse to do the tasks that make life a drudge. Not wanting to do thankless and brutal tasks for low pay is normal and healthy and refusing that bargain is what we ALL ought to be able to do.

    The wealth hoarding is the problem. Even if every single billionaire was provably the hardest worker in their company, even if we KNEW that being a top 1%er in wealth absolutely mapped to you being a top 1%er in grit, it doesn’t change how I feel about the injustice of the vast inequality.