what are we humans doing this for? or is it just happening and we arent there at all?

Question

What are we humans actually doing? or is everything just happening?
we do enough work in one year to pay every family US$75,000 a year - and everyone [more or less] works, so US$75,000 a year per family would not be far from fair - we do enough work to pay everyone, including homemakers and students, US$15 an hour, and everyone works more or less equally per hour [slackers get fired, except bosses] - peace and plenty, happiness and quiet

instead, we pay across the most supersuperextreme range: from 1c to $10,000,000 an hour, from 1000th to a million times the average - with only 1% getting above average, and with 90% getting below a 10th of average - down to 1000th of average

why are we doing this? or are we doing nothing, thinking nothing, and it is just happening and we are just not there or anywhere at all?

what possible reason could we have for doing this, if we are actually present and doing it? what reason could anyone imagine for any creature doing this? how could we explain it if an alien asked us? oh, we are doing it because ... what?

Answer 1

If it happens we are not here, they how did you type this. We are here and we are real. Our purpose, to take care of the earth, to offer love and comfort to others, to make sure the humanity is united by achieving world peace. We know that this is far from being achieved and that the reason, why each year new off springs are being borned to keep the dream alife

Answer 2

Because in the state of Nature, there would not be such a vast range of fortunes--everyone would be approximately equal in luckiness, like the animals are.

But in human society, there is the possibility of some few being fantastically rich, glamorous, famous, etc., and so this route is taken, so that a few get to know what it's like to be Brad Pitt or Donald Trump.

It's not us that is consciously doing this. Rather, the Great Playwrite wants to have interesting stories arise out of the human experience.

Answer 3

... but if your skills are specialized, you don't think the market value of your work should go up?

I would be more than willing to pay an individual woodworker more money for a artwork, crafted finely wrought cabinet. Than a factory produced piece.

Sadly I can't afford that piece, and am grateful for the cheaper reproductions.

Skills passed down by generation are worth far more than those taught on the factory floor in an afternoon.

Education should be rewarded. Craftsmanship should be rewarded. Specialization should be rewarded.

Slackers should be fired, but they have families too. And why not fire bosses?

The original system was set up to encourage self improvement, encourage individual progress. But you are right it has gotten out of hand, when grown men are being paid millions of dollars to play a child's game (pro athletes) and women are being paid minimum wage to sew clothes in order to put food on their table.

The intent was honest. But the system got skewed.

Answer 4

We are doing this to meet our notion of justice which we have learnt from the nature. The pay can only be just when it accounts not only for the quantity of effort, but also more importantly for its quality in terms of what results the effort does produce. Equity is not the same as equality.

That is the professed justification. However, aberrations and corruption rampant in our society make the issue of differentiation manifold and lopsided.

Answer 5

Because we are self aware, and with self awareness comes insecurity, with insecurity comes avarice. Social Darwinism has been used to justify this behaviour on a larger scale.

Answer 6

Because people forget what's important that we are all one. And they become blinded by greediness and selfishness

Answer 7

people like to be 'better' than others