[samsquire]

I agree. It upsets me deeply that people are working poor and can never earn enough to stay still.

I am arguing that in a society each person needs funding from somewhere, it can only come from everyone else in exchange for their work. Each person therefore depends on their costs being provided by everybody else. This relationship is therefore recursive. As each person must also provide for everyone else that someone is providing for.

As we witness in the world, not everyone can produce more than they cost. Some people cannot afford to travel or stay near work. Opportunities are cut off from them.

[automatic6131]

>As we witness in the world, not everyone can produce more than they cost

And we also witness that others can produce more than they cost. So it could (actually, is and has been for the last ~500 years) be that overall, the average person produces more than they cost. Forget your recursion idea.