[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by siryessir08

You're not trying to understand to point?

I understand your points. I think that they are illogical and poorly thought out, that is all.

Ideally everyone should do the work they want to do (or not work if they don't want to).

Nobody stops you from doing the work you want to do. To use your artist example, if you are good enough to make a living from your art, who's stopping you? There are plenty of professional artists in the world.

If you aren't good enough to make a living from doing what you want to do - that's the problem.

And if you don't want to work, but you still expect to live on other people's money .... Well, if those "other people" are your parents, then that's their problem. If those "other people" are taxpayers, then that makes you a leech. Even the artists pay income tax. And their tax goes towards ... Supporting you, just because you don't want to work?

Do you think that this is right?

The scientists and engineers comment is snarky and thoughtless.

Really? You had placed "free infinite energy" on your wish list. If energy is free and infinite, who pays for the salaries of the many scientists and engineers who work in the energy industry?

You also wrote - give a trillion bucks to NASA to do the research to create the source. Where does the trillion bucks cone from? If it cones from the government, it's once again the taxpayers money - including your professional artists!

and yes... most of the economic elite WERE born into it. Most never received an inheritance, because there parents arn't dead yet. The insanely rich move their assets around within the family. Kids get investment firms from their parents. They increase the wealth of the family.

First you say that the rich steal from the other classes. Then you say that they get it from their families.

Well, if they got it from their families, then they didn't steal it and it's really none of your business why or how much the daddy or the mummy gave to Sonny Boy. Similarly, if you chose not to work and your parents chose to support you, then regardless of how rich or poor they are, it's also nine of my business.