On Thursday, May 1, 2014 10:57:22 AM UTC-4, Chris L Peterson wrote:
On Thu, 1 May 2014 07:45:14 -0700 (PDT), wsnell01 wrote:

You didn't describe a "healthy, happy, humane society"... you described a society in which the productive (such as plumbers) are taxed to support the (willfully) unproductive (such as starving artists.)

No, I discussed a society in which everybody could be productive
without having to worry about survival.

You did not.

A starving artist, by definition, is not productive as an artist and might not survive, but he can be productive as a waiter. Prior to 0bamacare he likely would have had a group policy through his "day job," but perhaps not anymore.