eg33k
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- Nov 30, 2008
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I'm a utopian...
We need a leisure technological society.
Everyone should be able to have the basic STUFF of life provided.
Why should anyone have to loose their house because they got sick? Or have to choose between medicine and food?
Most people don't enjoy the time and stress of work.
What we all really enjoy, is what work is supposed to bring us. Such as a house, food, utilities, education, transportation, healthcare, security, elderly care, sex - you know, "Life" STUFF.
Work (related) stress is an unhealthy and deadly disease - most people would be happier if they didn't have to work for at least the basic STUFF. This would lead to better relationships, families, and communities. Wage slavery kills or destroys the lives of people s-l-o-w-l-y over about 30-50 years, so no one will hear them scream...industrial slow death, mass murder that I guess is hard to see if you're to busy busting your butt just to make rent.
If people had to work less, they would have more time and less stress. Less stress is ALWAY a good thing. Instead of doing what what they NEED to do (to survive) they could do more of what they WANT to do (to really be happy). If you absolutely wanted more STUFF than the basics, you could work for it, but you wouldn't have the fear of loosing the very basics. Most people would be happy to give up their job...if they could afford to.
Imagine what you could do if you had total freedom from a JOB, instead of the freedom to work 2 or more jobs just to survive. I suppose a few people might do bad things if not trapped by their job, but the world would be much better and happier if most of us were not consumed by a job.
Everyone should be happy.
That's why I want MORE Unemployment for all.
But I am also a realist...
This is a CRAPitalist world.
So Black Hatters UNITE and work towards that total freedom FROM work!
(this is one of my rants from another board, thought a few folks here might enjoy -sorry if my typin sucks)
We need a leisure technological society.
Everyone should be able to have the basic STUFF of life provided.
Why should anyone have to loose their house because they got sick? Or have to choose between medicine and food?
Most people don't enjoy the time and stress of work.
What we all really enjoy, is what work is supposed to bring us. Such as a house, food, utilities, education, transportation, healthcare, security, elderly care, sex - you know, "Life" STUFF.
Work (related) stress is an unhealthy and deadly disease - most people would be happier if they didn't have to work for at least the basic STUFF. This would lead to better relationships, families, and communities. Wage slavery kills or destroys the lives of people s-l-o-w-l-y over about 30-50 years, so no one will hear them scream...industrial slow death, mass murder that I guess is hard to see if you're to busy busting your butt just to make rent.
If people had to work less, they would have more time and less stress. Less stress is ALWAY a good thing. Instead of doing what what they NEED to do (to survive) they could do more of what they WANT to do (to really be happy). If you absolutely wanted more STUFF than the basics, you could work for it, but you wouldn't have the fear of loosing the very basics. Most people would be happy to give up their job...if they could afford to.
Imagine what you could do if you had total freedom from a JOB, instead of the freedom to work 2 or more jobs just to survive. I suppose a few people might do bad things if not trapped by their job, but the world would be much better and happier if most of us were not consumed by a job.
Everyone should be happy.
That's why I want MORE Unemployment for all.
But I am also a realist...
This is a CRAPitalist world.
So Black Hatters UNITE and work towards that total freedom FROM work!
(this is one of my rants from another board, thought a few folks here might enjoy -sorry if my typin sucks)
) I know I'm lucky. I know that most people aren't mind workers or working at what they like. Everyone else should certainly get as much leisure as they can, and the rest of us should fight like animals to help them get it. When I'm on an interesting project working for weeks straight, every single waking hour is a complete joy. I grow some of my own food and I love that too. I keep chickens and I suppose I could eat them but I choose not to. Cow farmers in my area love their cows. Up at 4 am to milk and feed is a way of life that they enjoy. If they lose their farms and have to go somewhere without all that endless labor they aren't as happy. Some of the ones that get foreclosed on are old enough for social security, can live in some comfy little apt on their monthlies. But they're still miserable. When you keep animals just being with them, taking care of them, is a meditation and provides a stillness and peace others really can't understand. When I'm mucking out my coop and hauling poop and straw and washing out buckets etc it helps me put coding issues aside so when I go back to the keyboard I'm fresh as a daisy. I was an engineering major and now I'm a coder. It's a grinding, soul-crushing, impossible slog sometimes. But after days, weeks, months of work there's a zone you get into where everything is crystal clear, your project is laid out like a big glowing circling galaxy around you and all you have to do is pick and choose and gather the individual systems down into your project and fit them with the new galaxy you're building. It's partially hallucinations from the lack of sleep, but what the hell. I like it And anyway, who's going to build all those huge buildings and flying ships on the venus project page?
