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Re:Alan Kay: Is it too late to create a healthy future? [video] by crispinb on Thursday November 01, 2018 @05:04PM (#18358425)
> our civilization is mature enough to abandon the concept of having to work to be able to live

Or at least make the concept universal. It's been alive and well for the ruling classes for centuries.

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Re:Alan Kay: Is it too late to create a healthy future? [video] by shanghaiaway on Sunday November 04, 2018 @03:33AM (#18374882)
The ruling class works too. They rule.
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Re:Alan Kay: Is it too late to create a healthy future? [video] by crispinb on Sunday November 04, 2018 @05:05PM (#18378303)
Some do, some don't, in my experience (there are many scions of the ruling class who choose to do little).

But that's all irrelevant in any case, because the issue in question here wasn't working or not-working, but having to work to be permitted to live. Most of us have to. The ruling classes don't.

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Re:Alan Kay: Is it too late to create a healthy future? [video] by shanghaiaway on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @07:11PM (#18403409)
Rulers have to work to maintain or expand, otherwise they decline.
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Re:Alan Kay: Is it too late to create a healthy future? [video] by 0xdeadbeefbabe on Thursday November 01, 2018 @05:26PM (#18358626)
Hey, are you from the ruling classes?
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Re:Alan Kay: Is it too late to create a healthy future? [video] by crispinb on Thursday November 01, 2018 @05:34PM (#18358690)
No, but I've had a pretty close view of their undersides.
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Re:Alan Kay: Is it too late to create a healthy future? [video] by state_less on Thursday November 01, 2018 @05:40PM (#18358737)
A Utopia doesn’t change that you’re human with ups and downs.
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Re:Alan Kay: Is it too late to create a healthy future? [video] by Retra on Thursday November 01, 2018 @07:24PM (#18359391)
Don't project your conditions onto everyone else, please.
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Re:Alan Kay: Is it too late to create a healthy future? [video] by mactyler on Friday November 02, 2018 @01:02AM (#18360822)
Some people are hungry.
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