Greetings good citizen,
Today’s topic is the world of work. While some, er, ‘freethinkers’ argue that work is unnecessary, they can’t argue their way around that fact that if nobody works, nothing gets done.
And you’d be amazed at how few people want to participate in ‘productive ventures’ (at least on a ‘trade basis’.)
They’d rather ‘decorate’ rocks and trade those for food than do the actual hard work of tilling the soil and growing crops or tending to the needs of the livestock because if someone doesn’t do either, there won’t BE any.
But our ‘why workers’ point to nature shows like ‘Yukon men’ or ‘Alaska the last frontier’ and their ‘self-sufficient’ lifestyle and claim that’s how it should be.
When the shows themselves focus on how as the population rises, it becomes harder and harder to bag enough game to make it through the 8 month long winters.
Yet each episode demonstrates how Mother Nature herself is a cruel taskmaster. You’ve only got so much time to get the job done and if you don’t finish or if things are a little ahead of schedule, too bad.
Which is to say every one of our ‘frontiersmen’ works their ass off just to survive.
Mind you, nobody ‘pays’ them to do what they do. (Well, the TV crew must pay ‘em something but there isn’t anyplace up there to buy the stuff you need.) So the money buys fuel, ammo and tools like ATV’s, new boats and bigger guns.
Most of us grew up in a society that doesn’t make us work ‘hard’ (Compared to what our ancestors had to do to survive.)
The miracle that is ‘money’ enables us to live comfortably without having to do EVERY LITTLE THING for ourselves.
So it is that we have encountered a different, er, ‘situation’ than the one our ancestors faced…although, truth be told, this situation is far from ‘new’.
Now we have more workers than work…what a happy situation because now everyone can do a smaller chunk of the task at hand and everybody wins more ‘free time’.
But that’s not how it works under (more for me) capitalism.
Worse, more for me capitalism is extremely wasteful…now that the population is approaching the ‘carrying capacity’ of the planet, don’t you think it’s time we start addressing the inefficiencies and inequities of the ‘more for me’ mindset?
Yes, ‘need’ drives the entire picture…and it’s what keeps the ‘more for me’ crowd living in the lap of luxury.
How, er, ‘frightening’ is it that the already filthy rich don’t need but a fraction of the wealth they have gouged out of the rest of us?
It SHOULD scare you spitless.
Because if money were being used ‘correctly’ the more for me bunch wouldn’t have the lock they have on our species survival they have now.
The very fact that the uber wealthy exist demonstrates the main flaw in capitalism.
Sadder perhaps is the >One Percent’s ‘legalization’ of their unjustified avarice.
When the giants of our society had the Supreme court (which they own, lock stock and barrel!) declare that the purpose of commerce was to enrich its owners!
Whereas the original and most commonly accepted definition of the purpose of commerce is to serve society’s needs ‘at a reasonable profit’.
How much trouble do you think ‘we’ (as a species) are in considering the conservo-whackos did away with the anti usury laws? (Never mind stripping you of your right to due process!)
Um, boys and girls, the >One Percent have declared ‘open season’ on us and there isn’t a darn thing we can do about it! (I was going to say they declared war upon us but that would imply we have the ability to fight back…which we don’t!)
The real riddle is what these weasels are going to tell our sons and daughters when they order them to open fire on us?
Now here’ s a scary thought. Considering the basic theme of most video games, how many of ‘em will even hesitate?
We aren’t ‘The Family of Man’. We are a collection of (pseudo) ‘rugged individuals’ a la John Wayne or Captain Kirk.
And guess who has fed our children THAT particular illusion?
While we did nothing to stop them.
Which is to point out good citizen that there are some real ‘monsters’ loose at the top of our society.
And they should be made to PAY for their CRIMES.
Illegal and immoral are two separate concepts and you can only wonder why…because immoral SHOULD BE illegal. Yet these sicko’s are going to use the ‘I’ve done nothing illegal’ defense as they stand amidst the smoking landscape that their actions turned to scorched earth.
Then, the real coup de grace, they’re going to ‘apologize’.
And we will respond with ‘take a hike mac!’
So let’s recap, shall we?
We have a world that we have ‘tamed’ and COULD BE working a lot less than we currently do…but we have been saddled with a system of commerce that doesn’t need all of the available workers.
Now the, er, ‘beneficiaries’ of this twisted system are trying to keep things from changing, which HAS RESULTED in the collapse of the commerce system.
(In case it looks like I went screaming off the reservation towards the end there…I did not.)
The question, good citizen, as always, is ‘what are we going to do about it?’
Anyway,
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Today’s topic is the world of work. While some, er, ‘freethinkers’ argue that work is unnecessary, they can’t argue their way around that fact that if nobody works, nothing gets done.
And you’d be amazed at how few people want to participate in ‘productive ventures’ (at least on a ‘trade basis’.)
They’d rather ‘decorate’ rocks and trade those for food than do the actual hard work of tilling the soil and growing crops or tending to the needs of the livestock because if someone doesn’t do either, there won’t BE any.
But our ‘why workers’ point to nature shows like ‘Yukon men’ or ‘Alaska the last frontier’ and their ‘self-sufficient’ lifestyle and claim that’s how it should be.
When the shows themselves focus on how as the population rises, it becomes harder and harder to bag enough game to make it through the 8 month long winters.
Yet each episode demonstrates how Mother Nature herself is a cruel taskmaster. You’ve only got so much time to get the job done and if you don’t finish or if things are a little ahead of schedule, too bad.
Which is to say every one of our ‘frontiersmen’ works their ass off just to survive.
Mind you, nobody ‘pays’ them to do what they do. (Well, the TV crew must pay ‘em something but there isn’t anyplace up there to buy the stuff you need.) So the money buys fuel, ammo and tools like ATV’s, new boats and bigger guns.
Most of us grew up in a society that doesn’t make us work ‘hard’ (Compared to what our ancestors had to do to survive.)
The miracle that is ‘money’ enables us to live comfortably without having to do EVERY LITTLE THING for ourselves.
So it is that we have encountered a different, er, ‘situation’ than the one our ancestors faced…although, truth be told, this situation is far from ‘new’.
Now we have more workers than work…what a happy situation because now everyone can do a smaller chunk of the task at hand and everybody wins more ‘free time’.
But that’s not how it works under (more for me) capitalism.
Worse, more for me capitalism is extremely wasteful…now that the population is approaching the ‘carrying capacity’ of the planet, don’t you think it’s time we start addressing the inefficiencies and inequities of the ‘more for me’ mindset?
Yes, ‘need’ drives the entire picture…and it’s what keeps the ‘more for me’ crowd living in the lap of luxury.
How, er, ‘frightening’ is it that the already filthy rich don’t need but a fraction of the wealth they have gouged out of the rest of us?
It SHOULD scare you spitless.
Because if money were being used ‘correctly’ the more for me bunch wouldn’t have the lock they have on our species survival they have now.
The very fact that the uber wealthy exist demonstrates the main flaw in capitalism.
Sadder perhaps is the >One Percent’s ‘legalization’ of their unjustified avarice.
When the giants of our society had the Supreme court (which they own, lock stock and barrel!) declare that the purpose of commerce was to enrich its owners!
Whereas the original and most commonly accepted definition of the purpose of commerce is to serve society’s needs ‘at a reasonable profit’.
How much trouble do you think ‘we’ (as a species) are in considering the conservo-whackos did away with the anti usury laws? (Never mind stripping you of your right to due process!)
Um, boys and girls, the >One Percent have declared ‘open season’ on us and there isn’t a darn thing we can do about it! (I was going to say they declared war upon us but that would imply we have the ability to fight back…which we don’t!)
The real riddle is what these weasels are going to tell our sons and daughters when they order them to open fire on us?
Now here’ s a scary thought. Considering the basic theme of most video games, how many of ‘em will even hesitate?
We aren’t ‘The Family of Man’. We are a collection of (pseudo) ‘rugged individuals’ a la John Wayne or Captain Kirk.
And guess who has fed our children THAT particular illusion?
While we did nothing to stop them.
Which is to point out good citizen that there are some real ‘monsters’ loose at the top of our society.
And they should be made to PAY for their CRIMES.
Illegal and immoral are two separate concepts and you can only wonder why…because immoral SHOULD BE illegal. Yet these sicko’s are going to use the ‘I’ve done nothing illegal’ defense as they stand amidst the smoking landscape that their actions turned to scorched earth.
Then, the real coup de grace, they’re going to ‘apologize’.
And we will respond with ‘take a hike mac!’
So let’s recap, shall we?
We have a world that we have ‘tamed’ and COULD BE working a lot less than we currently do…but we have been saddled with a system of commerce that doesn’t need all of the available workers.
Now the, er, ‘beneficiaries’ of this twisted system are trying to keep things from changing, which HAS RESULTED in the collapse of the commerce system.
(In case it looks like I went screaming off the reservation towards the end there…I did not.)
The question, good citizen, as always, is ‘what are we going to do about it?’
Anyway,
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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