A combine can do hundreds of hours of labour work in an hour. We still have to produce the same amount of crops.

Humanity went from 99% of the population working in farming to just 2% because of advancements in farming technology. We literally only need 2 people every 100 to grow enough food to feed everyone.

That’s why not everyone needs to work.

We have an over production problem. Companies still manage to keep prices high by employing artificial scarcity where they tell us they only have limited quantity when in reality they have an abundance of it. Supermarkets literally throw away perfectly good food everyday instead of giving it to poor people to keep the prices high.

My father doesn’t work for a rich person, never did.

Much of work humans need to do to survive has been automated with the advent of the industrial revolution (not even talking about computers and AI). We could afford to have half of the population not work. Oh wait, that was the case in the 60s when women didn’t work.

Now it’s difficult financially for 2 working people to raise a family of 4, despite all the automation. It’s because the people who own the business we work for don’t pay as much as the value we produce for them. That’s why wealth is getting accumulated in the hands of few.

Pressure turns coal into diamond - My Indian father taught me

I don’t believe it applies to humans now tho. I believe it comes from poor people trying to justify their hardships.

They didn’t do the math