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> The vast majority of people want jobs. only as a proxy for security
by SixSigma 11y ago
> The vast majority of people want jobs.
only as a proxy for security
- RodericDay 11y agoNo. People like feeling like they are useful, and like they matter. Somewhere between some people some of the time and most people most of the time.
- SixSigma 11y agopeople would find more ways to be useful if they didn't have to go to work
- krakensden 11y agoOr they would spend more time hanging out with friends and getting drunk in public, the pan-cultural pastime of unemployed young men.
- pm90 11y agoThat is a rather pessimistic view of unemployed young men. And most certainly not true.
- AReallyGoodName 11y agoIs that true though? I know a few people over 30 with ridiculously accommodating parents who still live at home and play MMOs for 12+ hours a day. I feel sometimes the solution for many people is to simply force people to do what's best for them.
- SixSigma 11y agoHow wonderful that you know what's best for everybody. Time to write a book.
- kleer001 11y agoI'm a big fan of animalistic reductionism, for personal reasons. And that perspective tells me, from looking at the way well trained and motivated dogs perform tasks, that socialized sentient beings do appreciate being helpful and useful. Also, being an arm chair evolutionary psychologist, I can easily speculate that a species with this trait would continue better than a similar species without that trait. A bit like the aesop fable of the ants and the grasshopper. And also personally I get a good old dopamine kick out of solving problems in a group. It may be that I'm socialized to behave that way. But then again a culture that ingrains that kind of behaviour... (see above).
- collyw 11y agoThere are plenty of not so well trained dogs that just do as they please as well.
- kleer001 11y agoVery true. And there in lies the problem of socialism / communism / guaranteed income. What do you do with the freeloaders? If the basics of life are free, why do anything extra? It creates an economic drag, like physical drag on a wing. Then again Whales have bumpy features on their fins that actually help them reduce drag, kinda like dimples on a golf ball. http://www.gizmag.com/bumpy-whale-fins-set-to-spark-a-revolution-in-aerodynamics/9020/ http://www.gizmag.com/bumpy-whale-fins-set-to-spark-a-revolu... And then again I'm of the firm belief that parasitism is a basic feature of complex reproducing systems. So, the solution is more of a process, an arms race, than a destination or closed end solution. http://infidels.org/library/modern/meta/getalife/coretierra.html http://infidels.org/library/modern/meta/getalife/coretierra....