Re:Trends that will create demand for an Unconditional Basic...
by TeMPOraL on Thursday July 11, 2013 @05:59PM
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> And while I'd probably still do something, I'd no longer see any need to make any compromises to work together with anybody else.
How is this a problem, when all the essencial work is done by machines and people who do like to do those particular types of work?
"Work is fulfilling" is one of many illusions the society created to shield itself from the fact that we are still, as we have been for the entire history, slaves who can only either work or starve. We are used to this state of the world so much that we've invented many cultural memes so that we can feel good about it.
It is very similar to how people invent 1001 reasons why death is good and gives meaning for life. It doesn't. It's just we can't bear the sadness of our situation, so we invent excuses and stockholm-syndrome ourselves to avoid the pain.
How is this a problem, when all the essencial work is done by machines and people who do like to do those particular types of work?
"Work is fulfilling" is one of many illusions the society created to shield itself from the fact that we are still, as we have been for the entire history, slaves who can only either work or starve. We are used to this state of the world so much that we've invented many cultural memes so that we can feel good about it.
It is very similar to how people invent 1001 reasons why death is good and gives meaning for life. It doesn't. It's just we can't bear the sadness of our situation, so we invent excuses and stockholm-syndrome ourselves to avoid the pain.