Food takes work to produce In order to get food, you must gather it. Instead, we choose to do work for a farmer, such as making a product, and that farmer makes us food in return. Nobody is making you pay to live, your are doing that. If you would like to not have to pay, than stop needing to eat, or stop needing to have food, shelter, etc. What I don't understand is why people seem to think anyone deserves anything in the first place. Nobody deserves anything, nobody earns anything, nobody gets what is fair or what is right. The world does not, and never will work like that.
Where did I say that anyone should get anything for free or without effort? I'm simply questioning the method and the incentive, there's no question that work must be done in order to get anything. Said this, even the idea of work will be questioned in the not too very distant future as technology forces mass unemployment, but this is a conversation for another topic.
I agree that as time passes we are going to have to shift to an economy that focuses on the base ideal that people will work and innovate without having jobs or needing money to survive. However, that operates on the assumption that we will do so. If we will not, than we can't just give things away free, because the system would fall apart very rapidly. there's no question that work must be done in order to get anything. Said this, even the idea of work will be questioned in the not too very distant future as technology forces mass unemployment,