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Where I live, the answer might run as follows. For fifty thousand years, the local hippies avoided starvation with a one-hour workday. Now that the place is f
by thisrod 14y ago
Where I live, the answer might run as follows. For fifty thousand years, the local hippies avoided starvation with a one-hour workday. Now that the place is full to bursting point with slaves of some massively efficient system, they have to work a bit harder.
And, unless you can photosynthesize, you're a parasite too.
- corporalagumbo 14y agoPlants are just parasites of the sun man. And even the sun is just a rapist of mass energy.
- westicle 14y agoDon't be an apologist for solar-parasites.
- ghshephard 14y agoThe point that I probably failed to make, is that trying to drop out of the work-for-wages/acquire capital/hire-people/produce goods ecosystem only works as long as you have a lot of people prepared to work-for-wages/acquire capital/hire-people/produce goods who will create the environment that keeps you alive. I would never besmirch the good name of the sun, nor suggest that we don't all depend on it. I think we can all agree that we've greatly benefited from living within the sun's ecosystem.