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I mean if you think about it, the default of humanity is to die of thirst assuming we were to do nothing so 'earning a living' is just a realistic expectation for any society.
If able, you should provide enough to society to make it worth meeting your basic needs. They give you food, water, shelter, you give them back enough to compensate them for that effort.
At its root, this is what cash should be, a measure of what society owes you. You make other people's lives X much better, and they do the same for you.
We should really be trying harder to get cash to meet this goal. A person making 60k a year for 45 years is $2.7 million dollars. You can buy a person's lifetime of effort for $2.7 million.
Bill Gates is worth $131 billion. That's the lifetime effort of 48,500 people. He hasn't improved our lives that much. Something is clearly out of sorts. There's nothing one person can do to deserve the lifetime effort of a thousand people.
Being evil pays really well. Sometimes.
If you follow that reasoning, the ultimate conclusion is that it's perfectly fine to let sick or disabled people die.
Let them ..... well yes eventually you will have to let them, as you can't stop them.
Forcing them along that path though, yeah that's not cool.
I don't see what point you're trying to make, unless you think I need a ~~reindeer~~ reminder that everyone eventually dies.