- Without the need to be forced through employment-preparation school, rather than study what takes their fancy and learn at a natural speed, - without the nee

- Without the need to be forced through employment-preparation school, rather than study what takes their fancy and learn at a natural speed, - without the need to pick a higher education on the basis of practicalities like earning potential, - without the burden of a day job and the constant distraction of making ends meet, ... this would not be a society of couch potatoes. It would be a society of vocations and learning. In school did you really want to be a concert pianist, but had to settle for grinding out C# in a bank? In this society you'd get to be a concert pianist. A couch potato is what you get if you sap someone's energy and available time with a 9-to-5 and then offer them broadcast entertainment produced by a small class of specialists.