False. Trying to act “cute” while yapping on a screen all day, while 10% of the time you’re doing minor VOD sound editing to remove copyright tracks does NOT count as work.
Bad angle to convince anyone of anything there. What you should be saying instead is that everyone should strive to live in a society where that amount of work/effort is enough to subsist.
Work (noun): providing a product or service in exchange for financial or equivalent remuneration
You can say what you will about the relative quality, difficulty, or worth of “yapping on a screen all day”, but it is unquestionably work and discounting it as not work is directly against your stated aim of “everyone should strive to live in a society where that amount of work/effort is enough to subsist.”
The work done is entertainment. Whether it entertains you, specifically, is not the point. We can disagree all we want with the quality of the content or the work itself, but some work is being done
Fun fact: professionally performing, recording, and editing content is work.
Just because they’re self-publishing doesn’t mean they’re not producing and publishing a product.
False. Trying to act “cute” while yapping on a screen all day, while 10% of the time you’re doing minor VOD sound editing to remove copyright tracks does NOT count as work.
Bad angle to convince anyone of anything there. What you should be saying instead is that everyone should strive to live in a society where that amount of work/effort is enough to subsist.
Athletes just run. That’s not work.
Musicians just strum some chords on a guitar. That’s not work.
News reporters just yap on a screen all day. They don’t even do any video editing so they work even less. Same with actors and comedians.
Programmers and game designers just click buttons on a keyboard all day. Not work.
Factory workers just pull levers and move stuff around. Not work.
Mechanics just screw some stuff in here and there. Not work.
Da Vinci just scribbled on a ceiling all day. Not work.
It’s amazing how easy it is to dismiss a whole profession when you misrepresent what they actually do.
Work (noun): providing a product or service in exchange for financial or equivalent remuneration
You can say what you will about the relative quality, difficulty, or worth of “yapping on a screen all day”, but it is unquestionably work and discounting it as not work is directly against your stated aim of “everyone should strive to live in a society where that amount of work/effort is enough to subsist.”
Just because you think it’s shit doesn’t mean they’re not working.
Does a farmer not work just because his crops turned out low quality?
There’s an argument to be made about the correlation between quality of work and quality of results as well, but that still means they’re working
The work done is entertainment. Whether it entertains you, specifically, is not the point. We can disagree all we want with the quality of the content or the work itself, but some work is being done