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> If society is to function people need to be able to live a reasonable life just being mildly productive.

One of my criticisms of neoliberal economics/politics is it doesn't consider stable meaningful jobs that your can support a family on as a necessary output of the economic system.

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I'm not an expert in any degree, but it seems that there are plenty of problems out there, just that the only ones being solved cater to investors and wealthy tech-workers. There's no money in improving infrastructure, returning good food to food deserts, teaching school children - or otherwise the things that most would probably agree suggest the success of the society at large.

Very likely this is what stakeholder-profits-at-all-costs leads to.

Because it factors in the idea that people need to be incentivized to work. If people can free ride on something then they will.

I am definitely in that group. If i can have a decent living on social welfare programs then i definitely would not work. Working sucks. I just hate the idea of working or satisfying customer's needs because it represents a master/slave type relationship.

At least how we organize work today, it sucks tremendously hard. Someone might pretend he likes it, but no one likes waking up at 6am, commuting both ways, and effectively losing half his day doing something he might not enjoy. There's no real reason most work needs to be like that either besides the momentum of the status-quo.

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