Do you like the concept of work? Shouldn't we be sharing and helping instead of earning?

Question

I think the world has changed so much that we are earning for food and shelter which are a basic necessity of human life. I think work should be for personal development such as fulfilling hobbies and interests but we are wasting our lives in jobs and working for other people. Also, we have grown more individualistic (especially in the West) and we are more focused in career and accumulating wealth than sharing and helping each other. What are your views?

So can we change it somehow? I believe we can if some of us can come up with innovative ideas. What do u think?

Answer 1

What is with this thing called money? Shouldn't we all just be doing something that benefits society. All be doing our part in exchange for getting all you need from others doing their part? No money, no salaries, no need to earn, no problems. Everybody just doing their thing filling a need of humanity in society. Thus everyone gets everything for free, and not for free in reality because you are actually doing your part. Then we can just focus on improving ourselves and our craft even better, in the process of doing "your part" in society. Who in his right mind started this economy, money, earn a living bullshit anyway?

Answer 2

The problem with socialism is tragedy in the commons. People usually don't work more than they must, and, given any chance, they will take out of a commonweal more than they put into it. Eventually, everyone becomes poor, but the first people to become poor are the heroic exceptional people who really do try to make the system work, who knock themselves out working, while hordes of parasites vie with each other for the chance to loot the benefits of that work.

The problem with capitalism is that by making the possession of wealth the supreme survival trait, the biological quality of men suffers a steady deterioration because they're no longer being naturally selected.

Further, men become dependent on technology, which is a weakness because technology depends on an uninterrupted supply stream of resources, primarily energy, which can become gradually depleted or terminate abruptly. When everybody needs eyeglasses, pacemakers, insulin shots, prosthetics, etc., when nobody is born fit enough to live in the world, and technology fails, then everybody dies. Capitalism encourages dependency on technology, and thus it betrays the life of man.

What we actually have is even worse than capitalism: it's capitalism engineered to fail by usury. Our money system is based on debt, not on created wealth, and not on labor done. Money comes into existence when it is borrowed, and it can be borrowed only at interest. The bankers, who do no work themselves, who contribute nothing to the commonweal themselves, end up taking for themselves the reward for everyone else's labor, simply because the rules of the money system contains a built-in cheat in the banker's favor.

Socialism has part of the answer, but a socialism based on economic class won't work because economic classes did not evolve, and there is no natural inclination for socioeconomic groups to unify. All such inclinations are the result of political indoctrination, which works by appealing to the greed of the least of men in order to harness them into concerted action, which generally involves pulling down their betters.

A socialism based on kinship might work. The family came to primates from the natural evolutionary process, and there is a natural inclination for men to love their brothers, to prefer their own more than strangers. A nation that was a large family might use a combination of private property and socialism in a way that avoided the failure modes of both capitalism and socialism.

Answer 3

I agree. I used to fight against 'work' but have come to understand that in todays society, for me to be able to share and to enjoy my hobbies I need materials ... and materials need to be obtained for a commodity ... this accursed capitalistic system thwarts any living creature... it is a machine-oriented behemoth that suffocates the creative mind...

Answer 4

By working you are sharing and helping like a doctor they help their patients when they are sick, accountants share their knowledge
Indirect we all need each other and each and everyone is sharing and helping, even the whore on the street corner

Answer 5

Yes I like the concept of earning based on your personal performances. You can do whatever you want, though.

Answer 6

i would love it if our society wasn't based on earning money for yourself - and rather spent on helping others and building your mind and body. However, to do these things you need money - so i think we need to work to make an economy that will support these pursuits.

Answer 7

we work to earn and use this to help other people esp those who are unfortunate but because of what is happening today we work in order to live.....

Answer 8

I like your way of thinking. Back to the basics.Simplify our life.

Answer 9

if we just shared and help... someone will eventually feel frustrate because he / she helped too much

and this type of Marxism is an utopia, my friend

Answer 10

Good luck with that.