I do not think people will consent to take care of those who do not produce and they will die just as the weakest animals die in the jungle.
I have had very good luck getting things by politely asking. Personally I've never experienced anything worse than having my request declined. Common sense and I guaranty that one will never hear yes if the request is not made.
I ended up being the defacto leader of my neighborhood peers about 1974. It was just after Halloween and we were cruising in the family station wagon. My fellow hooligans wanted to steal four huge pumpkins from a front yard. I said go knock on the door and ask. Netted, two each, two foot diameter pumpkins. Rolled them out the back of that wagon at 60 mph. (Warm fuzzy at that memory.)
I was estranged from my mother for 11 years. Upon reconciliation, out of my portion of the inheritance from my sperm donor's estate, I paid for the headstone of my brother, 18 months younger than I, who died at 6 months of age. It took 53 years, but the father paid for the headstone. There is no doubt that death had a very large impact on mother.
I said yes when asked to become guardian of her person and estate. One brother couldn't even bother to return the guardian ad litem's phone calls. I pragmatically obeyed the guardian rules until she died.
Mother was living in an assisted living facility, I was the primary care giver for my step dad's hospice. Sorta like sitting shiva for the living dead with the added thrill of cleaning up shit when he fouled himself. He raised another man's children. I owed him.
I'm a firm believer in
Actions Have Consequences. If I had been asked to become guardian during that estrangement, the answer would have been a very impolite and unqualified no. Be nice to your relatives. If you are not nice to them, they can always say no.
Down on your luck? Treated me badly? Actions have consequences. Tough shit.
What do you mean by
produce?
One doesn't get less productive than lying on a bed dying.
That is not the kind of world I want to build.
A little grandiosity there? Do you think you are the sole builder of the world?
I believe coercion is necessary to reduce inequality.
How's that coercion working for you?
Both coercion and inequality exist right now.
The first does not and can not cancel the second.
A short story of reductio ad absurdum to its disproof of your idea.
I will resist your coercion until one or both of us is dead.
Now tell me how either one or both of us being dead alleviates the inequality.
And speaking of the inequality, how about some specifics so we can compare our thoughts regarding the cause(s) of the various inequalities.
Do you disagree that racism and greed are the primary problems?
I do not agree that racism and greed are primary problems.
I do agree that they are problems.
By now I assume you've figured out I have six friends; What, When, Where, Who, How, and Why.
