Comment:

What would you do, if you didn't have to do anything?

If you didn't need money, would you work?

If you had no obligation to care for war victims or worry about the economy, would you pay attention to world events or advocate for causes?

If your home, clothes and body could clean themselves, would you clean them?

If you didn't need to eat to survive, would you still eat?

If you didn't need to sleep, would you own a bed?

If every story was already available on demand, would you write?

If you didn't get lonely, would you interact with others?

I've heard conservative types rail against "welfare queens" and such, insisting that poor people leeching off of benefits are "just sitting around", but surely a healthy human being whose needs are actually met will naturally do things other than just sit around, yes? That's what Lee was doing, and even Lee eventually found a reason to get up and do something, albeit reluctantly and half-accidentally. Zoa has already told Lee that they'd make a lousy sex worker. Would they make a good housewife?

Transcript:

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0403– 2167/07/07/12:08 - Orb’s office
PH: You never attended any form of post-mandatory education?
BM: Sure didn’t. Thalldoo, don’t regret it.
PH: What do you do for a job, then, if you don’t mind my asking?
BM: I’m a housewife.
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PH: That isn’t a real thing. It certainly isn’t a job.
BM: Well, fortunately, it’s twenty-one sixty-seven and “employment” is not actually a condition of survival.
PH: Still, you should wish to be useful to society, yes?
BM: I am useful to society. I’m just useful to one particular citizen of it, the person whose office we’re in.
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BM: Look, if it helps, I happen to know that my spouse is a particularly attentive, skilled, and compassionate teacher.
BM: (I may be biased.)
BM: We can assume that they’d be more stressed and therefore less effective were I not supporting them, domestically, full-time. So, in a certain sense, the two of us, as a gestalt unit, are the employee of the college.
BM: So… you’re welcome.
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PH: My own spouses don’t get to claim credit for my accomplishments, you don’t get to claim credit for Orb’s.
BM: Oh, I don’t need credits, vouchers for the campus bookstore will suffice.
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