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Originally Posted by AmeliaG
It is not a right or a privilege. It is a combination of commodity and service. These are not things someone else should get to decide whether to grant or not. Would you ask whether warm clothes or a nice car are a right or a privilege?
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Interesting take on it.
Here's the rub though: Capitalism tends to commodify everything up to and including people. So while you can say that we should not be able to grant certain commodities or services to people for free I can say that certain things should not be commodified.
Should clean air and water be commodified? Should health care? Should people?
The profit motive is a wonderful servant and is useful in that role. When it becomes the master, as it clearly has, it becomes a tyrant and counterproductive to society.