Senility is the only answer...
...the only answer.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_affluent_society
Given all the modern technology and methods of replacing human labor, modern humans should NEVER have to work more than 10 hours a week on the average. We should be able to live pleasant lives on that and that should be our real goal.
Some people want to be enslaved. They seek out enslavement. They should want to be free. The people who have gotten their freedom by either becoming very rich, very poor or any other means are the winners. If you are slaving your life away at some job, you, certainly, are neither smarter nor superior to those who aren't. They have out foxed you.
But, making them come down to your level and become slaves, too, is an evil goal. The right goal is to set everyone free from slavery as much as we can with all our knowledge and ability to be innovative.
And, the fact is that we have absolutely no need what so ever to have more than 10% of the population working at any given time. Most jobs are totally unproductive and should be eliminated as soon as possible. Instead of 10% unemployment, we should be aiming for 90%. And, no one should be in the work force all the time. People should only do their share. Think about all the tasks that humans do and then try to think of ways they can be eliminated or accomplished without human labor and you will be amazed at how foolish and stupid it is to have people doing those things at all.
We should be trying to eliminate jobs, not create them. Yes, that would mean that there would have to be a new means of distributing goods and services. So? So what?
The current system is crashing because it is unsustainable. It is also ridiculously stupid. It is not good for the planet, people or other living things. Time to put it in the trash where it belongs. It is no longer needed. It is worn out and should by now be out grown.
Why would there be an increased need for security? The goal would not be to live at subsistence level. It would be for everyone to have a decent standard of living. If hunter gathers could subsist off 20 hours a week, with all the benefits of science and human innovation that we have had since that time, we should all be able to live quite nicely form 10 hours a week of labor. After all, one man with a tractor can grow and harvest what hundreds could find and dig up with a stick."And, the fact is that we have absolutely no need what so ever to have more than 10% of the population working at any given time. Most jobs are totally unproductive and should be eliminated as soon as possible. Instead of 10% unemployment, we should be aiming for 90%".
LOL. We'd have to employ half of your 90% as security, to protect the homes & possessions of those who were working to support this brand of socialism.
I think that I am close. The answer is certainly going to be to dump the old economic system and come up with a new and innovative look at what we are doing with our lives and resources. There will have to be a new way to distribute work as well as goods and services. The old system has clearly run its course. We can go into a new dark ages or a new age of enlightenment. I am for enlightenment. We can start with massive job elimination and free people from job slavery....the only answer.
Because we are selfish! And if i'm feeding 100 people, 100 people better be paying me, or 100 people will starve while I get fat!:thumb:Why would there be an increased need for security? The goal would not be to live at subsistence level. It would be for everyone to have a decent standard of living. If hunter gathers could subsist off 20 hours a week, with all the benefits of science and human innovation that we have had since that time, we should all be able to live quite nicely form 10 hours a week of labor. After all, one man with a tractor can grow and harvest what hundreds could find and dig up with a stick.
Well, educating people such as yourself and freeing them from such old biases and prejudices is certainly going to have to happen.Because we are selfish! And if i'm feeding 100 people, 100 people better be paying me, or 100 people will starve while I get fat!:thumb:
All that would be true under the current system. I am talking about an entirely new economic system that is not job and wage dependent as a means of distributing both work and goods and services. I would entirely disconnect the two.90% unemployment would destroy the infrastructure that would allow your solitary farmer to support himself, much less support anyone else. Fuel, fertilizer/pesticide, parts & produce distribution all collapse.
Your advocating more time for criminal activity upon the part of those who are so inclined, thus the need for more security.
Try to see a doctor or dentist lately? Now put 9/10ths of them out of work and try to get an appointment.
Increase classroom density by 1000%, due to a lack of teachers, and see what the quality of education comes down to.
Please tell me your simply 'trolling'!
My final post on this thread.