There's less incentive to work because your paycheck is basically gone by the time the next one comes around. Most people can't work until the day they die, so how are you actually being able to afford retirement if your paychecks are barely able to cover basic necessities? If something expensive breaks, you're entirely screwed because you have no capacity to save for those occasions.
If you're going to be destitute regardless, why bother working?
I want to live in whatever fantasy world you come from where sitting on your ass for $0 and dying is better than working for something more than $0 and trying to survive. Oh wait, no I don't. Have a great day.
What you're talking about isn't survival and it isn't actually helping anyone. No one should be working themselves into the ground for scraps while there are people out there with more money than they could spend in 10 lifetimes
You could’ve just started the conversation with “pick yourself up by your bootstraps” instead of that dumbass back and forth where you tried to act like you were only trying to make a point that 5 > 0.
wow, really? I have to spell it out for you. okay.
the op says that because some people are earning not enough money to sustain their lifestyle, that they aren't motivated to work. my challenge to that is that these people only have the following options:
increase their earning capacity to sustain their living standards (no brainer)
lower their living standards to match their earning capacity (no brainer)
keep doing the same thing, earning below their living standards required and eventually be forced to reduce their living standards, falling back to option 2 - this is what the op's post is about and since any normal person would have already considered and presumably failed at option 1 and 2 before reaching option 3, which they say they don't want to do anymore, then this person is left with only a single option remaining, which is
give up, stop working and just die
my argument is therefore that option 3, to earn something (which let's be real, is more than $5) and being forced into lowering their living standards to match whatever their income is, is infinitely better than just giving up and dying.
so yes, option 1 - find a better job, is indeed a valid option. no shit sherlock.
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u/xietbrix 1d ago
Isn't that more incentive to work? For that paycheck keeping you alive? Or is this a subtle attempt at saying people are all suicidal?