Except that a job that can be easily done by many people is still valuable for the society as a whole. We still need janitors. One should be able to be a janitor and have healthcare, housing, etc.
And problem is, people without much education, etc, can't just go "oh well this job doesn't value me enough, I won't take it." It's either work as a janitor or starve, if they don't have the opportunities (monetary or otherwise) to get training for other jobs. Right now they don't starve, but they might suffer by being able to get treated for some medical condition. And this despite the fact that yeah, they may not have the money or smarts to get a white collar job, but they still help our society run.
The entirely free market is extremely cruel, and we don't live in a society that's free market anyway. In the entirely free market, there was child labor and 14 hr work days and "the market supported it" until the socialists and anarchists came out and started agitating. I feel like health care should be something we all get, or else why the hell do we even HAVE gov't anyway,but for things like that? If we're supposed to procure everything by ourselves (an entirely free market), we might as well be capitalist anarchists living under no gov't whatsoever.
And problem is, people without much education, etc, can't just go "oh well this job doesn't value me enough, I won't take it." It's either work as a janitor or starve, if they don't have the opportunities (monetary or otherwise) to get training for other jobs. Right now they don't starve, but they might suffer by being able to get treated for some medical condition. And this despite the fact that yeah, they may not have the money or smarts to get a white collar job, but they still help our society run.
The entirely free market is extremely cruel, and we don't live in a society that's free market anyway. In the entirely free market, there was child labor and 14 hr work days and "the market supported it" until the socialists and anarchists came out and started agitating. I feel like health care should be something we all get, or else why the hell do we even HAVE gov't anyway,but for things like that? If we're supposed to procure everything by ourselves (an entirely free market), we might as well be capitalist anarchists living under no gov't whatsoever.
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