Ray wrote:
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>"I think we will eventually have to accept that the holistic non literal
>nature is best left to the highest and most creative activities that
>humanity can conceive while the concept of "Jobs" in the old "hired
>hands" sense may very well pass away.
>
>It could be one of the ironies of history that "jobs" will become as
>they were in Peru during the Inca and in China in the Cultural
>Revolution something that everyone does for a few short months
>as a kind of tax for the system. The rest of the time will be given
>to creative work or maybe even no work at all.
>
>I have trouble with the no work idea maybe because of the
>Baptists on the reservation and they may have been right about the
>psychological need for it. But I don't believe we have begun to ask
>the questions on this yet."
Ray - You've just summarized what I'm working on, which is how to
re-arrange society, via a Basic Income, so that when 'jobs' fade away, the
transition to what James Robertson calls 'ownwork' can be as painless as
possible. To me, the end of 'wage slavery' is a cause for
celebration--there will always be good work (arts and other) to do and most
jobs just get in the way. The Baptists probably sold the model of human
beings that holds us to be inately lazy and evil, only whipped into shape
by fear of god and coercion by our betters. I never bought.
Sally
