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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living…

We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.

Buckminster Fuller

via @naturalismus


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@freezombie I don't get it. In what way does one person's breakthrough support 10000? Which 1/10000 people should work? who decides?
Author: Thomas Jollans
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I think: Those that do worthwhile work, work. Those that don't, work on finding something worthwhile to do, even if it takes time.
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@freezombie we still need people to grow and distribute food, maintain roads, build and run factories, gather resources...
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...I can only see it happening if robots did all that.
Author: Thomas Jollans
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Just quoting a 20th century philosopher, but I find it an interesting thought. We live in plenty. It is possible, though maybe not practical
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@archena similar idea to that of a basic income or citizen wage, I think: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Income

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