That makes one of us. If all my needs were met I’d surely be doing productive things, but I wouldn’t be doing them for someone else to get rich off of.
I agree. I’d be perfectly content living modestly and ‘volunteering’ my time toward a shared goal. I want to be busy; I just don’t want ethically-questionable or meaningless busy work.
So would I. I currently work for a public utility and would happily continue even if we had everything covered. Someones got to do it and its satisfying to help out.
From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs. Wouldn’t that be nice.
Your basic needs can only ever be met because other people are doing the labor to make it possible. It’s only fair that you contribute your labor back for other people. Because we can’t barter our arbitrary labor for any other arbitrary labor we might need, we have currency to fill the role of a generic bartering tool.
So no matter how you look at it, you’re working for money.
Your basic needs should be met independently of your work. We can barter about what basic means. (Is a 25m2 apartment and basic food, water, a bed, electricity and the Internet aswell as a device to use it already it?)
I’d practically get depressed without work. But it really depends on if you’re doing something you enjoy of course. My job gives me fulfillment, but I realize many/most people are currently just working their asses off just surviving the month.
A better scenario still would be with universal basic income though, so in that utopia all people can contribute however they want. I mainly would work more flexible hours, but perhaps even more in total.
Of course nobody wants to work. That’s why we’re paid for it.
I’d work for free if all my basic needs were met
That makes one of us. If all my needs were met I’d surely be doing productive things, but I wouldn’t be doing them for someone else to get rich off of.
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There’s a difference between doing something where the value is shared between everyone and doing something where a few people hoard the value.
Also, I would ostensibly have a way to give feedback in a meaningful way if I were a volunteer instead of an employee.
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I agree. I’d be perfectly content living modestly and ‘volunteering’ my time toward a shared goal. I want to be busy; I just don’t want ethically-questionable or meaningless busy work.
I think that counts as work, unless you’re asking a CEO
There’s lots of productive activities that aren’t work. They’re generally called hobbies.
So would I. I currently work for a public utility and would happily continue even if we had everything covered. Someones got to do it and its satisfying to help out.
From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs. Wouldn’t that be nice.
According to the state of Florida you could have all that and learn valuable skills as a slave!
I love my job and would continue to work even if I win all the lotteries every week.
Your basic needs can only ever be met because other people are doing the labor to make it possible. It’s only fair that you contribute your labor back for other people. Because we can’t barter our arbitrary labor for any other arbitrary labor we might need, we have currency to fill the role of a generic bartering tool.
So no matter how you look at it, you’re working for money.
Your basic needs should be met independently of your work. We can barter about what basic means. (Is a 25m2 apartment and basic food, water, a bed, electricity and the Internet aswell as a device to use it already it?)
So you wouldn’t be working for free…
It is free if you are able to stop working and still get your needs met.
Which very well could, and I’m my opinion should, be the case.
But instead a few dozen billionaires own half of the worlds wealth.
Eat the fucking rich.
But that’s communism /s
Meh. I want to work.
Can’t imagine a life where I contributed nothing back to society.
I just want work that is meaningful and allows me the financial freedom to get sick and not die and be able to stop working when I’m too old to.
Goodness, sounds like someone caught the socialism bug /s
I’d practically get depressed without work. But it really depends on if you’re doing something you enjoy of course. My job gives me fulfillment, but I realize many/most people are currently just working their asses off just surviving the month.
A better scenario still would be with universal basic income though, so in that utopia all people can contribute however they want. I mainly would work more flexible hours, but perhaps even more in total.