Jagube
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The internet has made education cheaper and much of it free, so that's a great development.Bisy said:Seeingisbelieving said:How about making basic living necessities such as food, water, education, and shelter free for all human beings. I suggest starting here.
those are already free, and it takes only a very basic survival perspective to learn and practice having them for free
About water and food I'm not sure. Not everyone lives close to foraging / hunting grounds with clean rivers abundant, in an unpopulated area and a year-round growing season.
"Free" is usually understood as without spending money, but physics defines it as "without expending energy". And if I am to expend energy, how is that different from expending energy to make money and then spending that money?
As for shelter, you could build a hut, but there are laws against that because there are many people in the world.
And then, unless you live at decent latitudes, you'd have to heat it and it would have to be a solid build with insulation, vapor barriers etc.
And then if we spend time learning basic skills like foraging, hunting and carpentry, who will build advanced technology (like the aforementioned internet)?
Division of labor is a great development, and that's where money comes in.