@Gerry McGovern I don't think work is necessarily the reason for existence, I think love, gratitude, agency are, and agency requires you take responsibility for yourself, and usually that involves work. And I think that is true whether you're white, yellow, red, brown, black, or purple with pink polka-dots.

@Gerry McGovern So many people are critical of capitalism without considering historical failures of the alternative, communism. I'd rather not have a repeat of the Bolsheviks, East Germany, China during the cultural revolution period, or even modern day North Korea. Ask yourself how many people escaped from West German to East or North Korea to South? Even though capitalism results in the unequal distribution of goods and services, it's alternative results in no production of goods and services because when you give everyone the same goods and services regardless of their contribution, their motivation to contribute drops to zero. Capitalism is far from perfect, it needs more supervision than a manic three year old, but I've yet to see an alternative without worse flaws.

@Gerry McGovern If you look at history economics have never been good under communism, instead of equalizing distribution it's only tanked production. Community is great but not in economics.