That's not how stocks work, in the UK or the US. You've demonstrated throughout this entire comment section that you don't understand what you're talking about with those "basic economics"

A stockholder is someone who buys stocks. Working for a company does not mean you are a stockholder. And you cannot buy stocks with all that freely forged food that's everywhere in the forests around all of us.

You're great at trolling, maybe leave the economics to everyone else tho.

Lol 😅

You don't know what you're talking about. Confidently incorrect.

I followed from your logic that you should be in support of collective bargaining by the labour force to negotiate a living wage in exchange for the collective labour the provide. But you don't apparently because you either intentionally or mistakenly believe the falsehood that employers willingly pay the full value of the labour they employ others to do. This has been shown to be false through most of human history.

Lol take an economics class.

Capitalism is based on the idea that workers are paid less than the value they create. How do you think businesses make profits?

Nobody who works 40 hours a week should be unable to afford food, rent and savings.

You think McDonalds gives its workers more money for producing better hamburgers? Jfc

You sound like the only conservative kid at your high school who carries a briefcase and eats lunch alone.

Now you're just "being" lazy

Okay, awesome, show us a haul! Teach me to get up my butt and go foraging. Are we just eating mushrooms and berries? Not that I mind, it’s giving Pythagoras.

Around here we have pokeberries, which are supposedly edible if you boil the fuck out of them. They can kill you if you don’t do it right though; that’s not something I’m willing to brave yet. You did call me out - I’m pretty lazy and I could grab pecans from random folks’ yards.

All of the edible mushrooms I know of tend to stick to wooded areas - do I need to start walking there to build a shelter now? (I’d drive, but again, nearest wooded area costs $10 to park and I’d rather just buy a rotisserie chicken at that point).

Wow, that's just an amazing insult, and an even better oversimplification of how jobs work. Having both skills and time is not a guarantee of income, and employers have an obvious incentive to reduce pay in every possible way.

And life is too complicated to guarantee both skills and time no matter how much effort you put in. The person you're replying to mentioned disabilities. I'd add that being young means you don't have skills yet, but you still have to eat. Having kids means you don't have time, having a medical emergency often means no time or money, being born poor means less resources to developing skills, having some skills but not all the ones needed for the particular job you are trying to get, having skills but only the skills for low paying job, I could go on and on.

I'm glad life is so straightforward for you, but it's not for many many people who put in an immense effort into just surviving with very little hope of having extra money to buy things they want like tools.