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I wasn't aware that professors in Germany were unpaid. Or that the NHS was purely volunteer. Or that either countries had abolished private industry in either of those contexts.

Oh wait, no, it just turns out that the turning point-esque meme that socialized services equates to free labor is just absurd.

Could you please not post like this? It's not what we're here for and we ban accounts that carry on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Wow! You are right! Nobody is entitled to anyone's labor! We should make sure we let the capitalists who use the labor of everyone around them to extract profits.

Nice. Got a bite. Clearly you view the world as a zero-sum game. That's not reality. Reality is - I need help to get something done. You and I talk about you helping me get something done. You and I agree to exchange X value for Y labor. You get something of value and I get something of value. Nobody forced either of us into the agreement... we both did so freely. Wow. So right! So simple! Me like freedom. Me go eat waffle.