&quot;Are you saying you do ascribe to this position, that your only motivation to work is to get more money (and by extension luxuries) than everyone else has?&quot;<p>No. I never said anything like that, and you are arguing dishonestly.<p>(For the sake of other readers: the goal of work is to achieve eudaimonia, productive happiness. The false dichotomy between &quot;material greed&quot; and &quot;spiritual self-sacrifice&quot; causes massive and unnecessary misery. See the books in my profile for details).<p>&quot;Do you have specific objections to that plan?&quot;<p>The change you said you wanted to see in the world was everyone earning the same wage. Here&#x27;s a specific objection: let&#x27;s say I&#x27;m a plumber living in your utopia, and some of my neighbours complain that InstPlumbing is often slow fixing their pipes. Though it&#x27;s a fair bit of work, I&#x27;m willing to do it myself in exchange for a few of their hoarded dollars (or cigarettes, or whatever), which I later barter for extra bread rations for my kids. Whoops, now I&#x27;m earning more than other plumbers and we have inequality again.<p>Should I be banned from performing this greedy, selfish activity? And how are you going to stop people from engaging in such voluntary trades without totalitarian surveillance?