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        “Having a job is not a social obligation.”

        “What do you do?” is the first question asked when meeting someone new.

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            9 months ago

            I noticed a gap in your resume. Why don’t you have an address? Do you have reliable transportation?

            Try getting married without a job? Try getting a home, a car, a bank loan without a job? Our whole society runs on jobs.

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              18 months ago

              Asking if you have reliable transportation can be fair, depending on the job.

              If you don’t work on a bus route and have to work in-person you need a reliable way to consistently get to work. If that’s your roommate dropping you off, that’s fine. But unless you’re gonna cycle on a gravel road in a thunderstorm a bicycle may not be.

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        Contributing something to society is a social obligation, otherwise you’re riding everyone else’s labor for free.

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        “Having a job is not a social obligation.”

        Neither is providing you with anything more than you need to live. But most people find it well worth it to have a job.

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      Right wingers think this is an insanely dangerous idea. In my youth someone bought me a copy of Atlas Shrugged after hearing me say things like that.

      I realized that they were trying to indoctrinate me, but I was confident in my own judgement and wanted to know my enemy better. Even if I would’ve been susceptible to the brainwashing, that book was insanely long and insanely boring, so they chose poorly. I couldn’t get through even half of it