How to make the world a better place. Step one:
Do it.
Plan, of course, but do it. Gardening, local food, self-sustenance is what could lead to our future salvation. Or, if nothing else, our immediate happiness.
Realize that not all jobs are really necessary. I applaud people for wanting a job. Most people want to give their society something. Otherwise we just all feel like a mooch. A laze. A bum. No one wants to feel like that. Some people get used to it, some people can't seem to get away from it. But no sane person wants to be a bum.
So we get jobs. But not all of them are actually needed. Some of them un-needed, but we are still convinced they should be there. Jobs such as mining (sorry miners), and a good half of our construction projects. Some jobs exist for no other reason than to fight with someone else, like marketers. Fighting fist over fist for whatever scraps they can find for their company and so, in an ever deeper trench, they dig for the same gold they once had for little work. Once, I lived in a city where we had 3 phone books. Three. Tres. Trois. Now what's the point of that? Competition? How about they all co-operate and make one bad-ass phone book rather than spending all the resources to print three copies of the same thing and deliver them (...for free...) to everyone in town. A phone book is paid for by ads. So everyone in the entire town needs to pay three times over for the same advertisement value.
Where's the sense in this? Is this a functioning market? It's asinine and a waste of human work.
I may sound bitter, but I don't want to be. This is an educational opportunity. Let's think of what could be done better. Where could all this work and time go instead?
If we shared and re-distributed our resources a little more efficiently, perhaps everyone could work for the one phone-book manufacturer. And work a third as much. Leaving so much time for doing whatever else their hearts desired. Think about who needs a job and why? Activity does not mean stability. Sometimes, it means the opposite, but sometimes it is appropriate. Yet, if one has all they need, why would they need more?
Why re-buy an iPhone just because it's there? The newest car model? Is it really that necessary?
Why use Skype or Google Hangouts or FaceTime when we all can have one universal phone numbering system. Which of these are more efficient. Call anyone, or "Oh, I don't have FaceTime. Guess I can't call you." Which makes me wonder why there are three proprietary networks. Wouldn't it be nicer if they worked together? When the telephone network was first put up, there were many companies providing phones that could use it. Now, computers can call and chat to each other and they have the ability to use the phone system. It is just not supported, and so we are not allowed.
Buddah preached peace in the moment. Even still, we are talking about the Power of Now.
And yet... Eckhart Tolle still sells his book for the root of all evil: money. The man must keep himself alive, I suppose.
Do it.
Plan, of course, but do it. Gardening, local food, self-sustenance is what could lead to our future salvation. Or, if nothing else, our immediate happiness.
Realize that not all jobs are really necessary. I applaud people for wanting a job. Most people want to give their society something. Otherwise we just all feel like a mooch. A laze. A bum. No one wants to feel like that. Some people get used to it, some people can't seem to get away from it. But no sane person wants to be a bum.
So we get jobs. But not all of them are actually needed. Some of them un-needed, but we are still convinced they should be there. Jobs such as mining (sorry miners), and a good half of our construction projects. Some jobs exist for no other reason than to fight with someone else, like marketers. Fighting fist over fist for whatever scraps they can find for their company and so, in an ever deeper trench, they dig for the same gold they once had for little work. Once, I lived in a city where we had 3 phone books. Three. Tres. Trois. Now what's the point of that? Competition? How about they all co-operate and make one bad-ass phone book rather than spending all the resources to print three copies of the same thing and deliver them (...for free...) to everyone in town. A phone book is paid for by ads. So everyone in the entire town needs to pay three times over for the same advertisement value.
Where's the sense in this? Is this a functioning market? It's asinine and a waste of human work.
I may sound bitter, but I don't want to be. This is an educational opportunity. Let's think of what could be done better. Where could all this work and time go instead?
If we shared and re-distributed our resources a little more efficiently, perhaps everyone could work for the one phone-book manufacturer. And work a third as much. Leaving so much time for doing whatever else their hearts desired. Think about who needs a job and why? Activity does not mean stability. Sometimes, it means the opposite, but sometimes it is appropriate. Yet, if one has all they need, why would they need more?
Why re-buy an iPhone just because it's there? The newest car model? Is it really that necessary?
Why use Skype or Google Hangouts or FaceTime when we all can have one universal phone numbering system. Which of these are more efficient. Call anyone, or "Oh, I don't have FaceTime. Guess I can't call you." Which makes me wonder why there are three proprietary networks. Wouldn't it be nicer if they worked together? When the telephone network was first put up, there were many companies providing phones that could use it. Now, computers can call and chat to each other and they have the ability to use the phone system. It is just not supported, and so we are not allowed.
Buddah preached peace in the moment. Even still, we are talking about the Power of Now.
And yet... Eckhart Tolle still sells his book for the root of all evil: money. The man must keep himself alive, I suppose.
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