I think most people do work to make society better whether they enjoy it or not. My life is better because someone built a road, or practiced medicine, or taught me math. Productive as in the common usage. Having an outcome that is markedly different from before the effort.
Well you already answered the previous one so consider it a follow up.
Yes, that is what I wanted although a little more on the though process that got you there would have been great. Anyways, thanks for at least answering.
In my scenario, the level of free shelter, water, and food would never change no matter how much people clamored for it.
society wouldnt change.... what is offered wouldnt matter to the productive members of society, they would work for better shelter, better water and better food. The unproductive members of society would still have the same victim mindset and not be happy with what they have. Current society demonstrates this. People in america are not content living in the most prosperous nation on earth, they always want what someone else has. If we provided the entire country with a free honda civic, people would still steal corvettes.
Hmm, I can say for myself that how I lived my life would change. I would have pursued a different path than the relatively high paying career I am now in. Do you not think there are enough people like me that it would create a significant difference? What about all the minimum wage jobs? Would people still be pursuing those jobs like they do now?
All of the science concepts are facts now. All of those concepts, including religion, we're at one point philosophical questions. I was just rebutting Vtec that many things in life we know of as facts today were in some way illogical at one point, thus, philosophical questions can be, and have been productive discussion.
I think society is currently giving insights but is far from answering these questions completely. The people working because they have to, still greatly outnumbers those who are satisfied with what not working brings. By you saying "society is on the decline", that makes it sound as if you think a society where no one has to work would be a bad thing. But that seems to contradict your statement that you don't care if people do nothing as long as you don't have to pay for it. Can you explain further in the context of a society where no one has to work and you don't have to pay for it?
So, the theory of evolution is now recognized as fact? The Big Bang is no longer a theory? Religion is somehow scientific?
I simply asked for factual scientific examples, nothing more. Your response did not include only those examples, hence my statement, which you appear to confirm with your follow-up.
"Racing is life. Anything before or after is just waiting." - Steve McQueen
Its hard to think about this scenario because it's impossible. If the current welfare model was sustainable without me having to pay for it, i wouldnt care about it. Every bum in every welfare village could sit at home and do nothing. As long as they dont drag me down, i dont care.
He's unable to play it because it forces him to identify with a method of thinking that pundits have coerced him to fundamentally reject.
Being smart is now a "liberal" quality.