This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff

Food and healthcare and housing should be free, nobody should die of preventable diseases or insufficient nutrition or regular weather. But they do, and they will continue to so do as long as people are more willing to invest in a webcomic or a sexy game or their favorite team's jersey rather than social programs. The majority of people who aren't starving would rather maximize their discretionary income than help provide for a world where those things aren't problems.

You can't lament the status quo while simultaneously doing nothing to change it and devoting all your resources to hedonism or fantasy. Not in an intellectually honest way, anyway.

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If they can find an audience for it, everyone should have the chance to make a living out of doing what they love.

Why? Why, in a world with insufficient nurses and engineers and social workers and philanthropists, should everyone have a shot at a career that contributes negligibly to society and reinforces wealth disparity by creating a sink for income with no return? Just because they like it? Lots of people like lots of things and we still tell them they can't do it because it negatively impacts society.

Draw a webcomic if you want. Write a book, do an adventure, do whatever. But those are hobbies, and once you donate all your time and resources to them and they become a career, you're not meaningfully contributing to the functioning of society with the majority of your time. If you think that capitalism is great and optimal and that profit equates to value, then you can do that and good for you, but you can't hold the viewpoint that essentials should be provided to everyone and still think that large groups of people should have careers that produce nothing meaningfully useful because the resources, time, and manpower to provide those essentials have to come from somewhere.