> I’m very aware that the spoils of work sometimes get distributed unfairly.

Most company owners are, especially those that involve manufacturing in countries with low wages. What do they do about that though? Do they pay lip service, or do they pay better wages?

Do they go around blaming the poor for not working, or do they put their focus on the systems designed to extract the value of their work?

You've made your position clear, and it's based on some very false ideas about the 'default' state of humanity. I addressed these ideas but you ignored that.

> Maybe we could work less and keep the standard of living the same.

Yes, we could. No 'maybe' about it.

The reason we don't is the dedicated effort of people who like the status quo as it is, and the people they employ across politics, the military and media to keep the situation as inequitable, extractive, and exploitative as possible.

> maybe we could work the same but live in a much better standard.

We could. But again, we don't, and for the exact same reason as above.

That ad hominem got under my skin admittedly. I’m a company owner only in the most technical sense.

I still have to earn money by going to my day job 9-5. And while some parts come from China, I still assemble my epaper displays myself, on the desk where I work from home during the day.

So I know what it means to have to go to work. And I also know that work can be positive sum and make all sides of the transaction better off.

And again, I’ve never said that the world is FAIR or that I think it should stay unfair. I’m angry every day about how unfair it is!

I’ve just said that work is still a necessary part of this world.