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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/8043511

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[โ€“] Rocket@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shelter is a requirement, whether employed or not.

Shelter may be, but shelter and housing are not synonymous.

Given that I have never changed where I live in order to take a job,

So if we moved you to Wager Bay, Nunavut, nothing about your profitability prospects would change?

Another reason for my housing choices is related to hobbies. Itโ€™s hard to do hobby manufacturing or host band rehearsals in a condo.

Hobbies are the product of having turned a profit. If the home cannot provide you profit, hobbies are out of the question.

Why would that be necessary or desirable either individually or societally?

If you are not making productive use of an asset, you see no value in passing it along to someone who can?

[โ€“] jadero@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Most of your counterarguments have merit, but I take some exception to your apparent concept of productive use of an asset.

I have put substantial thought, years of planning, labour, and, yes, the profit obtained from my employment into the creation of this asset specifically to enable my chosen way of living and passing time. To say that this is not a productive use of an asset borders on insulting and has no more merit than the claim that a tree has no value until it's been converted to lumber.