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It's literally not the job of consumers to provide for your income. That may be a harsh lesson, but it's true.


This literally how the financial system is set up. Consumers provide money to a workforce that provides good and services that society enjoys. In turn, that workforce consumes goods and services providing income to a different workforce.

When you steal cool stuff, cool stuff stops getting made.


It's literally the job of consumers to pay for the things they consume.


That's the expectation perhaps, but that's not what "job" means.


It's the definition. Not paying for redefines one to being a thief.


That's a rather extreme definition of what a job is, in my opinion.




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