Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Meaning without Work

This essay looks at meaning without work.  Really the problem is not a shortage of work.  There's a ton of stuff that needs doing, there always will be, and people need stuff to do.  The problem is one of distribution: how to pay people for what needs doing.  So much of the money is stuck in a few hands, who don't want to pay for work.  If you want meaning, form relationships, make stuff, have adventures, choose hobbies, save the world.  This often has little if anything to do with making a living, though some of us are lucky enough to find both together.
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cissa

cissa

May 24 2017, 05:08:42 UTC 4 years ago

That ties into the fact that there's enough food for everyone on the planet to eat adequately; it's the distribution that's the problem.

When some get power and wealth from withholding needed stuff from people- food, clothing, housing, work- there will be both waste and privation.
ysabetwordsmith

Yes...

ysabetwordsmith

May 24 2017, 05:14:42 UTC 4 years ago

That's the problem. When you say that everything is already owned, there's nowhere people can go to make their own way. So some starve and die, because the people in power think that money is more important than lives. >_