Working towards the development of a society free from labour is what we all should dream, unfortunely as it is right now we are mostly working for the development of some dude summer mansion or yacht.
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The CEO/Owner of the company I work for recently bought a 5th wheel camper with more square footage than my townhouse on a whim.
Escape the "tyranny of the everyday"
Damn right...
Star Trek got that right!
Requesting your permission to sleep in Captain
Not this time Wesley, I’m playing the flute and you’re going to listen.
Sadly for most people not having to work leads to apathy. Only the greatest among us are able to actually be productive when they aren't forced to. But I guess "being able to follos your dreams" could mean having the ability to not just waste your time all day.
is there a proof to your claim?
There might be somewhere, however this is mostly speaking from personal experience. I personally find it pretty hard to do stuff I've set my mind on. Of course there are people with a great deal of motivation who are not having these kinds of problems, but as far as I see most people are not like that.
Personal experience is extremely limited and biased keep in mind. Simply the attitude most people have around being jobless is quite negative would already have great effects on the results
I disagree. I think labor is a good thing, and I use that term to encapsulate any sort of occupation. A person who doesn't have some sort of fulfilling labor is missing a big part of life. There's so much pride and fulfilling that can come from working hard.
The problem is that, currently, laborers are not fairly compensated for their work, and it's increasingly difficult for someone to just live without working beyond their limits. And so labor is no longer a small part of a fulfilling life but a perpetual cage for an exploitated husk of a person.
In my opinion, freedom is equity and justice, not a life of pure leisure...
I agree with this except for my admittedly radical opinion that anything you need to live should not be tied to work.
Food, clothes, shelter, healthcare. The bare minimum of those categories should be free. I’m talking like prison quality. You should not have to earn the right to live.
I think you’ll find that everyone is qualified for prison quality healthcare already as long as they’re willing to commit a crime.
this made me lol
Yes! I love my work, even though most people hate retail. I'm in a grocery store deli, and getting people food they like and them coming back saying I offered good recommendations just makes my day!
I'm the manager, and even I still struggle a bit with money at times, all the while trying to save for a house. Not easy out here, but certainly wouldn't want to stop working.
Most people hate retail cause the conditions suck. If you could comfortably live while working retail. If the benefits and pay were more aligned to office jobs, your boss wasn't usually a sociopath who has no remorse for having you come in while sick, and you got treated with genuine respect, it wouldn't suck. But shit bosses and entitled customers make the job suck no matter the pay or benefits which are usually not enough to even rent a room on
I see it the exact same way. i take very much pride in my simple, yet important work and see it as my contribution to society. that's what i want to do and that's what i would still do even if i didn't have to. that's exactly what i meant by 'following your dreams' because i believe people want to 'work', to strive for something and work towards it. i thouht labor would be the definition of a job that you do to get by. most people would prefer to do a more useful job than they do now.
Make your dream your work. Not easy, but it's worth it, believe you me. And when it runs at last, people are climbing over each other to get your stuff, it's oh-so-satisfying. And in today's world there's someone for every eccentricity. Make it yours!
if you got the privileg to choose, sure.