Keeping Your Paycheck Is A Human Right Too

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The other day I came across the following the video:

Is housing a human right? In one sense it is. Human beings have the right to build, buy, and rent housing. But does the above YouTuber mean it in that sense? Are Americans with money really being denied the right to secure housing? Is there an epidemic of builders, home sellers, and landlords indiscriminately pushing away well-heeled customers?

Of course not. No one is stopping any American from building, buying, or renting a home he or she has the money to build, buy, or rent. The above YouTuber doesn’t believe housing is a human right in a freedomist or natural-rights sense; he believes it in a Marxist sense. If a person is an adult and is breathing, the government must provide him or her with housing if he or she doesn’t have the means to secure housing for him or herself.

But here’s the rub: You can’t create a housing entitlement without also creating a housing obligation. In order to solve homelessness, you have to make the taxpayers the slaves of every loser who has drugged, fornicated, or slothed him or herself into chronic unemployment.

Here’s a real right the Woke never acknowledge or deem worthy of protection: The right to keep what you have earned.

For you to use your body (i.e., corpus property) for your own principled amusement, you must be able to make certain decisions. And one of those key decisions is the right to spend the vast majority of your earnings on the things you value—not the things the government values.

Your values are the fruit of your mind. The most forceful way you express your values is through your spending. If you lose too much control of your paycheck to the government, you lose control of your mind—your ability to formulate your own values is effectively lost. Your values become the government’s values. Citizens thus have a hard-stop limit on their obligation to fund the government. The moment the government exceeds this hard-stop limit, the governed cease being citizens and are rendered serfs.

Okay, groovy freedomist, that’s all I got. What say you? Do you have the right to keep the vast majority of your paycheck and spend it on the things you value? Or are you just a serf to the compassion-industrial complex and whatever “human rights” it dreams up? Let me know what you think when you get a chance. Peace.