Who Does No Work, Shall Not Eat

[Brad DeLong]

>We have to work because if we don't we die. People who don't work 
>are living off the work of others, one way or another. Of course, 
>human societies have a lot of choices about how they arrange the 
>work, and how much compulsion is involved, but it's not just a boss, 
>capitalist or commissar, who forces us to work.
>
>Doug

Collectively yes, individually no...

If back in 1972 George McGovern could imagine a system in which every 
American got $1000 a year ($3000 a year at today's prices) just by 
virtue of being an American--their share of the dividends from the 
publicly-provided infrastructural andother capital stocks that are 
our common "property"--why is our imagination today so limited?

"Work if you want a relatively higher standard of living and lots of 
stuff" sounds so much nicer than "work or starve"...

Brad DeLong