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The author has some points I have considered (after wading through the noise). However, her solutions are rather banal and conventional. Capping the work week h
by hosh 5y ago
The author has some points I have considered (after wading through the noise). However, her solutions are rather banal and conventional. Capping the work week hours and having universal basic income seems like a nice idea… but I have come to realize they are imperfect substitutes for having the natural abundance of the land become metered. Inequality is inherent to the capitalist system, and socialist systems don’t really address it either.
Instead, I have been working my way through Carol Sanford’s Regenerative Life and learning what that was about. It had taken me a year to realize what “regenerative” was even about: a world view and paradigm of living systems.
It is when people are allowed to be alive, participating in living system, that they can tap into regeneration. It then is no longer about how to equitably distribute resources, but rather, each person and each living system can tap into the regenerative powers of life. You still have to work, but you are no longer treated like a cog in a machine getting the life extracted out from you.
How I am going to exactly implement that in my own life, I don’t know yet. I have a lucrative career writing software for someone else, but with agism, it won’t endure.