Idlers' asylum

On CBC, there is an interesting story about a young Asian man disguised himself in order to get into Canada (here). It’s surprising to find so many anti-immigration (and/or anti-refugee) Canadians by reading the comments of this article. But that is not the point I wish to make here.

I read somewhere that it is better to be a slacker in a market economy than in a socialist one, since one is rewarded with productivity in a market economy. However, in non-market economies low-productive members may be seen as parasites - it is hence better to be a slacker who could work hard but don't want to in a capitalist system than (say) in a socialist system.

In China in the seventies, anyone who could work but don’t want to work would for sure be sent to a labor camp. In reality, nobody was allowed to choose what type of work one wanted to do. If I had time traveled and had disguised myself and flew into Canada to seek asylum because I wanted to be an idler (or part time one until I made enough money to be a full time idler), I would have been ridiculed worse than this young man and been sent back to where I came from.

In North America, I believe that there are only two cities that are most suitable for idlers, Montreal and San Francisco. You need certain numbers of same kind in a society in order to survive. Montreal is full of people who prefer to make less money and have some time to idle. In San Francisco, idlers probably call themselves thinkers, but I could be wrong.