I won't argue whether we must work, but I will instead argue that the author should think long and hard about his view on 'dignity'.

I doubt the author would claim that a wealthy rentier who spends their days creating art and debating philosophy was lacking in dignity. So why is dignity suddenly a problem if the person is very poor?

That sentence let us know a lot about the author and his view on the very poor; but it didn't actually tell us anything at all about the poor, or their "dignity".

In the meantime, I'll make a note that if the author believed his writings, he'd move to Britain. He is not going to do that. Because he is just taking a silly stance to get attention. It's a dumb hot-take, written by a shallow, bigoted jag-off. It sucks that this thing is on HN.

This is, by a wide margin, the worst thing I've read on stratechery. And thanks to the bigotry of that dignity comment, it will be the last.