Originally Posted by
LDAHL
I can honestly say I don’t care whether you work or not.
I’m not a particularly big believer in the intrinsic value of work. If you, or some ancestor, were clever or lucky in some past boom, I have no problem with that. If you won the lottery or divorced the right billionaire or scored one of Rob’s “big settlements”, I don’t much care. If you choose to work seventy-hour weeks into your seventies, that’s no concern of mine.
But I do think that insisting the rest of us are obligated to support you for no other reason than that you have a “right” to it is problematic. If the view that society owes us a living becomes too widespread, it’s hard to see how that society can survive in the long term.