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comment by bioemerl
bioemerl  ·  3467 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I don't understand why you have to pay to live on a planet you were born on.

    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,

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.