What if You Didn't Have to Earn the Right to Live?

How Do We Change the System?

Following on from yesterday’s post, let’s talk about the solutions. How do we change the system?

I don’t see a black-and-white system. I see a structure where the foundation is socialist, and the walls are capitalist.

Here’s what I envision:

Food, clothing, shelter, healthcare, and education are freely provided to everybody, simply because they exist. No conditions. No requirements. No hoops to jump through. Survival is guaranteed—because the system provides it.

This basic level of support includes tiny homes for families or bachelor pads for single people, a Universal Basic Income for all, and access to essentials. Diapers and formula are free. Daycare is free. Post-secondary education is free. So are groceries and clothing—within a reasonable, abundant quota. You can walk into a store and pick what you need: meat, veggies, pants, shirts. It's limited in quantity, not in dignity. More than enough to live simply, securely.

**And then—**we layer in a version of capitalism.

At the store, you can get the free stuff. But if you want more, or different, or extra—you can buy it. Use your basic income or money earned from your job. You can choose to work—but you don’t have to. Work becomes a function of passion and joy, not survival.

You can choose to buy a bigger house—but you don’t have to. The one provided is safe, warm, and yours.

An 18-year-old can move out and go to school—no more student loans, no more lifelong debt, no more living with your parents at 30 because freedom was never financially accessible.

Public transportation is free. Cars can still be purchased if desired.

Universal healthcare includes everything: emergency medicine, preventative care, dental, vision, audiology, prescriptions, chiropractic, massage, physio, occupational therapy, mental health services, and more. The entire system is free to all.

When the foundation is secure—when survival is no longer at stake—people can finally build lives based on want, not need.

That’s what real freedom looks like.

It’s a system that values human life and guarantees survival.
When survival is off the table, people become healthier, happier, and more whole.

This is life the way it was meant to be lived—
not the way they told you to live it.