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My point was more that people have a fundamental right to live, but sure
What does that even mean? Of course you have a fundamental right to keep your life. That doesn't mean you have the right to receive food and shelter without effort, when those things require effort to produce. Yet we do sometimes provide those things to people who don't labor. They're not very nice, and they don't provide a life of abundance, but they are available to many people who wouldn't have had those options at earlier points in history. It is a great advancement in our society that we can provide for the basic needs of people who aren't capable of providing for themselves, either in whole, or in part. But if you're capable of working, and providing for yourself, then you should meet that challenge with urgency, especially since the taxes from your labors contribute to the assistance for the incapable that I mentioned above. We may eventually reach a point where nobody needs to labor, but not in our lifetime.
We could already have been at that point if 99% of the actual value of our labor wasn't stolen by the rich. But sure, I guess we can't reach it with this attitude