It's dumb because a lot of the Fox News boomer crowd's idea of "making it" is that you own a company that someone else manages so you can spend your days golfing. IOW "not working and still getting paid". Or more modestly, "you work hard until you hit 65 when your pension kicks in." Certainly it's not "you work every day of your life until the day you drop dead".
Now if there were a follow-up of "what have you done that makes you deserve the privilege of getting paid while not working?", that would certainly be a legitimate question.
It's dumb because a lot of the Fox News boomer crowd's idea of "making it" is that you own a company that someone else manages so you can spend your days golfing.
Tell me you've never started a business without telling me you've never started a business.
Even you would love to get stuff for free. You just realize that's not how an economy works.
A sensible question would have been something along the lines of "How do you expect society to function if everyone gets paid without doing anything productive to keep the economy running?".
How is it dumb ? I don't like the idea of not working and still getting paid.
It's called "I don't want civilization to collapse after massive inflation and money printing destroy the fragile social fabric".
It's dumb because a lot of the Fox News boomer crowd's idea of "making it" is that you own a company that someone else manages so you can spend your days golfing. IOW "not working and still getting paid". Or more modestly, "you work hard until you hit 65 when your pension kicks in." Certainly it's not "you work every day of your life until the day you drop dead".
Now if there were a follow-up of "what have you done that makes you deserve the privilege of getting paid while not working?", that would certainly be a legitimate question.
Tell me you've never started a business without telling me you've never started a business.
"Uh duh I am a human so I deserve free shit because everything I want is a human right you fucking fascist" is probably what that tranny would say.
Even you would love to get stuff for free. You just realize that's not how an economy works.
A sensible question would have been something along the lines of "How do you expect society to function if everyone gets paid without doing anything productive to keep the economy running?".