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Well then, I'm confused. OP said society made it possible for me to make a living.


Ah, I think I see what you mean.

While I can't speak for OP:

Without a society there'd be no education system, no legal tender, no laws protecting employees, no laws protecting companies, no infrastructure supporting it - and so on. So society makes it possible for people to have jobs. There's an old saying that it takes a village to raise a child, which tends to indicate that the group has had a lot of input to the success of the individual for a long time.

I can't even imagine how something as complex as the prerequisites for programming would work without a society. State of nature economies. I suppose you could have small family groups at some point on the hunter-gatherer to farming spectrum, but the minute those families come together into groups and start to develop more complex interactions... that looks mightily like a society to me.

But it doesn't follow from that that society makes it possible for everyone to have a job. Just that those who do could not without one.

It's very close to being the same underlying logical form that goes:

'All cats are four-legged mammals. Buts not all four-legged animals are cats.'

All employees are enabled by a society. But not all people in a society are so enabled.


So the people who don't work... what are they providing me?




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