On 05/09/2013 12:36 PM, John wrote: > How many here agree with this proposal? > > http://www.cnbc.com/id/100724186?__source=yahoo%7Cfinance%7Cheadline%7Cheadline%7Cstory&par=yahoo&doc=100724186%7CAttention%20Boomers:%20US%20Nee > >
1) Work is not the purpose of life. The wealthy landowners tried to sell that idea to their serfs so they could lounge around while their serfs did all the work for little money. 2) Work is not holy. That's something the kings wanted to convey so you stayed busy and didn't cook up a coup d'etat against him. 3) Work is a means to an end and not an end in itself. It's supposed to be a way to exchanges your services for products or someone else's services. 4) There are fewer jobs because less needs to be done. We've automated a lot of boring jobs that no human should be doing and should automate more. For instance, except for custom clothing which would be interesting for someone who likes to do that and not repetitive you might as well design clothes that can be made entirely by machine. IOW, do away with those slave labor sweat shops in other countries. 5) People who love what they could might not mind doing that line of work until they drop dead. Creative people make up a lot of that group but society doesn't seem to like people who enjoy their work. They'd rather hire you for something you hate doing. 6) Scrap the Christian-Judeo work ethic. It's bullshit anyway according to what I've already stated. 7) In a world of 7 billion people there won't be enough work. Stop adding to the population. We don't need more people and need over the coming decades and centuries to reduce the population humanely to around 1 billion. But try to sell that to the folks who hold the purse strings. Either they want to reduce the population through genocide or wars. Most of the rich are mentally ill anyway. Who needs a billion dollars? 8) Instead begin a leisure society. Reduced hours more leisure. Enjoy life not work. Stipends for everyone.
