Originally Posted By: KrisZ
You are sadly mistaken or have been misled. There are many activities that the welfare people can be doing that do not involve additional income, like volunteering, being involved in their community, bringing new ideas etc. None of that would take away their welfare. Instead, these people end up demanding more and more, cloths, food stamps, free cellphones, internet and the list goes on and on.
Originally Posted By: Falken
It is simply attitudes have to change, and like it or not, this will be our future, so it is what it is.
No, it is people like you, telling everybody that you know best, that thinks so. As long as there are people opposing your "utopia" it will not be the future. There are still millions of honest people that all they want to do is earn an honest living and be left alone, with nobody telling them what to do, how to think or forcing them to support the parasites.
Musk is a perfect example of this attitude. His whole business model revolves around government's money and support. Difference is that instead of demanding food stamps, free internet etc, he demands more grants, more government spending to advance the electric car. More, more, more, without spending his own money and letting his companies stand on their own feet. He knows they would go bankrupt practically overnight.
^I am on board with you about people need a work ethic, it is a positive thing.
I have no argument against what you are saying, but we need to open our minds up to what "work" will be in the future.
Where I "work", I have an office "job".
In the Summer, we have no AC in the back shop. When someone from the shop comes into the office for a work order or they need something, do they feel what I do for a living sitting on my butt in front of a computer in an air conditioned office is "work"?
Should I do jumping jacks in my cubicle so it looks like I am "working"?
It is this premise of needing to do different things to improve society as a whole that needs to be valued more as "idle time" increases with technological development.
For instance, they predict millions of jobs will be lost when we move from internal combustion engines to the electric vehicle.
The reason? Electric cars have fewer parts.
So if you work at a company making mufflers for a living, your job is doomed. It is happening to everyone.