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RE: And you claim to be 'awake', smdh.
Have you read The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross?
Wealth is a term that enslaves us all.
Have you read The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross?
Wealth is a term that enslaves us all.
Do you do voice chat? lol It seems like I barely have enough time to do steemit. :(
By wealth I wasn't just referring to monetary wealth. We have people who make $100,000 a year and struggle.
In general I think wealth is much better than poverty even under the purely traditional definition. We need to use our time money and resources to improve our lives and the world and create more "wealth".
Ah, ok.
Yes, we should all work together to increase the benefits of working.
Ergo, keep working, stop paying.
Paying benefits the few by restricting what the many get out of the deal.
This has been quite scentifically worked out by kropotkin in 1906's Conquest of Bread.
Working and spending can be indivualistic. You could work at planting perennial fruit and saving money. Spending is also very important. You can buy a new car and destroy wealth or a used car and hopefully maintain wealth.
Money is a useful tool for valuing time and labor. You could substitute one or both for money but it very few people will work for absolutely nothing.
Or, we could value work in ways that didnt make us slaves of those that have more money than us.
You neighbors will know if you underwork or overconsume.
This method places value on reputation rather than wallet size.
Seeing that wallet size can be gamed by bad acting, seems to me that reputation is a better measure of wealth creation.
A lot of that slavery is on the spending side.
A lot of people overspend and give an illusion of wealth.
There are a lot of rich people who don't overconsume. I think there is a book called Millionaire Next Door.
Ok, but under my proposal conspicous consumption becomes shameful, whereas a premium is given to leisure and pursuit of arts and home endeavors.
Instead of 50 or 60 hours in somebody else's shop one can spend 20 hours a week in producing for the group and the rest of the time as they deem fit.
Rather than working 40 or 50 years to make somebody else richer they work 20 or 25 to replace what they consume over their lifetime.
Im telling you, kropotkin did this math 100 years ago, before automation could make more than spinners sitting at spinning wheels, candle makers, and buggy whips obsolete, there is no need for banksters to ride herd on us like we were cattle.
But your indoctrination is to reject that notion as impossible.
Have you read Brave New World, beta? It is from 1932(?).
I can link it if you want.
Sounds good on paper but it reminds me of the pilgrims failed experiment.
People can get by now working 20 hours a week. If they did enough sharing maybe they could get by on 10 hours a week but that would probably be pushing it.
A summary would be better. lol
The govt breeds babies in bottles.
The slaves dont know they are slaves and love their slavery.
Drugs are freely given to those that have to function at higher levels than the gammas and epsilons.
It doesnt take long to read, and there are no shortcuts to wisdom.
The contribution is approximately 20k hours over a lifetime.
How you get those hours would be up to you and the type of work you choose to do.