> That doesn't make any sense. A person living all alone in an otherwise uninhabited universe would be required to either work or suffer. Blaming a natural circumstance like that on capitalism seems like a bizarre mistake. (And not the only thing I've seen arbitrarily blamed on capitalism in recent years; what's up with that?)

What happens if the type of labour you have to sell does not pay you enough to survive, or does not pay you at all, but is still vitally important, e.g. parenting and most forms of non-profit work?

Or if, because the market does not reward all forms of labour equally, the labour that you are most adapt at / talented at / interested in pursuing, are economically unviable, and so you are forced to follow a spiritually unrewarding path, e.g. forgoing most forms of art and passion work?

Or what happens when technology has advanced to the point where you don't need everyone to work in order to provide the means of survival?

If in my city there simultaneously exist hundreds of vacant properties for lease and who knows how many homeless people who will die this winter due to exposure, don't you feel there is something flawed about this system?

In our current system, you sell your labour to secure the resources you need to survive. If you don't, you are free to starve. It's that simple.

Society is all about improving our collective well-being and taking care of the survival-level stuff so we can focus more and more on things we actually care about. At a certain point, our technology and culture will advance to the point where we should be able to see ourselves as something more than mere economic inputs.