Ok, so we have the technology to work 20 hours a week but end up working and getting poorer while the filthy rich get richer. Just look at the middle class and how it is disappearing all over the place. We can clearly see, once we do our research (look up modern money mechanics), how the banking & monetary systems are frauds and only serve to keep us enslaved and the power elite in control. But at the end of the long work week everyone's too tired to start a revolution to end this old system set up to make us miserable ...can we still be so blind and ignore how the ones that designed all the entrenched institutions and structures of society only want us to stay asleep, and allow them continue their insane ways of leading us further into the ditch. Its sad when we can't spend time researching the deeper questions of life or enjoying some quality time with our families, because we have to worry about putting food on the table and paying our mortgages, etc. I know this isn't only a dream of having more free time to do what brings us JOY, and less of the rituals & drudgery of the imbalances of work outside the home ....We can make this real for all, we just need to unite and bring this into a manifested reality. We need to realize that the schemes need to stop, but this means we learn as much as we can about how the system works now so we can break free from it once and for all..
"The logic of industrial time still ticks away in our heads, shaping how we understand our lives, in terms of cause and effect, progress, stability, clarity and usefulness. We have become used to the clock directing us from one place to another throughout the day, so that we readily associate certain hours with specific activities and locations. While the old industrial clock ceases, in fact, to regulate our lives in discrete chunks of time and space, the tempo quickens inexorably. The pressures mount, both to work to earn and to earn to consume,
24 with effects that are far more burdensome for some than for others. So the challenge for us now is to break the power of the clock without adding to these pressures, by freeing up time for living sustainable lives."
Taken From http://www.neweconomics.org/sites/neweconomics.org/files/21_Hours.pdf
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James Albus in Peoples' Capitalism is an update and detailed scheme of actually making Keynes' vision --- and more --- a reality.
Please help spread the word as a precondition of ending wage slavery.
Also see In Praise of Idleness posted by CoMdr * LightSpeed *
The curse of Adam (in Genesis) needs to be lifted. In the animal world once the prey is caught and eaten the metabolizing of the food (digestion) is no longer a worry for the animal.
In the human world an analogous process on a higher level must be established. The worry over getting enough, food clothing and shelter must become as taken for granted as our digestion.
Then, finally, we --- as a species --- will be free to become fully human and spiritual in incarnation.
The vision is a human family where sibling rivalry gives way to cooperation; where it is clear that there is enough life support to go round and give every sister and brother basic security from want without having to fight to secure it. The name of the game is no longer survival but the higher goal of developing dormant capacities and contributing the results to enhance the quality of life of the whole family.
Evolution produces increasingly complex life forms because vital metabolic functions are designed to take place without the organism having to pay conscious attention to carrying them out. Within the human species the automatic and taken-for-granted provision of individual basic needs will have the same liberating effect and will unleash the next evolutionary surge. True com-unity is a future development and its result, in tens of thousands of years---the next few minutes in the life of Life, will be a meta-organism. As eukaryotic cells came together, during the dawn of Life, to evolve into metazoa---multicellular life forms, so human individuals will find ultimate fulfilment in co-creating great beings in order to experience new levels of existence.
Wow unlabeled? Maybe I'm just needing to munch on that one... Physics!! The mass is wealth and the force is laboring people, I think I get it!