Working is necessary and intrinsic to human nature.

If you lived alone in the forest, you would have to go out hunting, farming, raising animals, building a home, etc.

When we live in a specialized society, we make a social pact whereby we offer goods and services in exchange for other goods and services, and that is how a society progresses, by working and trading.

Working for others is not a problem either, as Marxism argued. If it were so easy to be an entrepreneur, we would all be entrepreneurs.

The problem, as I say, is not working for someone else; the problem is that the fruits of your labor are taken by someone else, in this case the government. Karl Marx manipulated this simple axiom to exhaustion with surplus value.

Western democracies have gradually been transformed into neo-communist systems. We started in the 1950s and 1960s with tax regimes of 10% of GDP, and now we are at 50% in many cases, but like the frog that was slowly boiled, no one has complained.

So think about it: more than half of your time is spent working for the government. Isn't that surplus value according to the communists?

It's a joke.