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> our civilization is mature enough to abandon the concept of having to work to be able to live Or at least make the concept universal. It's been alive and wel
by crispinb 8y ago
> our civilization is mature enough to abandon the concept of having to work to be able to live
Or at least make the concept universal. It's been alive and well for the ruling classes for centuries.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 8y agoHey, are you from the ruling classes?
- crispinb 8y agoNo, but I've had a pretty close view of their undersides.
- state_less 8y agoA Utopia doesn’t change that you’re human with ups and downs.
- shanghaiaway 8y agoThe ruling class works too. They rule.
- crispinb 8y agoSome do, some don't, in my experience (there are many scions of the ruling class who choose to do little). But that's all irrelevant in any case, because the issue in question here wasn't working or not-working, but having to work to be permitted to live. Most of us have to. The ruling classes don't.
- shanghaiaway 8y agoRulers have to work to maintain or expand, otherwise they decline.