Should it be our right to have our basic needs met? I would like to live in a world where people get free food and free housing because they truly need those things to live. I think it's rude to charge people money for basic necessities. Here's my list, so far (feel free to add to it), of the problems in the way of people being granted free necessities:
1) Who's going to produce the necessities and why? (farming & food storage, house building & design, water harvesting & storage, medical care, making clothes, etc.)
- My solution is to engineer ways to reduce labor. For example, houses can be built with 3D printers now, reducing the construction costs from $200,000 to $10,000. It normally takes 7 months to construct a house, but it takes less than 24 hours with a 3D printer. Here's a link to the 3D printed house (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUdnrtnjT5Q) All basic necessities should be easier to produce.
2) Capitalism relies heavily on the sales of necessities, so making necessities free could damage the economy.
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