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Family? Friendship? Education, community, creative pursuit, experimentation, travel? I really don’t think that compulsory labor is the best way for people to f
by TaylorAlexander 4y ago
Family? Friendship? Education, community, creative pursuit, experimentation, travel?
I really don’t think that compulsory labor is the best way for people to find meaning. We’re not going to sit around on the couch forever feeling so miserable that we can’t go out and do anything. We’d be so free to explore what we want! Sure, people raised in a society that worships labor would feel unsure of their footing for a while, but I don’t think that’s a deep part of the human condition. People absolutely would still work. Imagine creating a theater production. All the work on planning, set design and construction, etc. None of that may pay a living but it’s still meaningful work that most people can’t spend time doing today. In a world without compulsory labor more meaningful work will be found.
- fatherzine 4y agoAll these are important, /because/ life is survival. Remove the /because/, and the secondary characteristics will fade away. One can just do whatevs, it doesn't make a difference anyways.
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoIs that true? People wealthy enough to ensure their lifetime survival don’t seem miserable.
- fatherzine 4y agoHa! If only rich heirs wasting their lives on drugs & hookers weren't such a pervasive stereotype.
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoIt does seem hard to live in a work-centric world when you as an individual don’t have to work. But I wonder a) how true this stereotype is and b) what it would be like it no one had to work. There would be more community oriented resources for finding meaning. Wealthy individuals in a work centric world don’t have that.
- pseudalopex 4y agoHow do you know the stereotype is correct? And poor people wasting their lives on drugs is another pervasive stereotype.