This is all I think about. I truly do not think humans are meant to work this much. Like you say, I’m not against working entirely. But I hate how life has to revolve around it, particularly if you end up needing to take a job you don’t enjoy just so that you can afford to live. It’s incredibly alienating to feel out of step with something that our entire culture revolves around. Thanks for writing.
Exactly my strategy: barely working (for money, at least) and focusing on living local. Being active in communities, making a difference in people’s lives. It has been freeing to choose this path. I cannot go back to the well paid office life it will kill my soul.
about ten years ago, I heard this psychiatrist on the AM radio going on about how the USA and its economic structure lead to vastly higher rates of.... heart/vascular issues, mental issues, substance abuse, diabetes and cancer
the gentleman was Hungarian I believe -- which caught my attention b/c my wife's father was first generation immigrant from Hungary and he fled to the US due the fallout and violence after the communist uprising that started at the radio tower, and upon arrival he was promptly sent via the Army to fight in Vietnam. He survived Vietnam but not the fallout -- likely due to agent orange and such, he came down with scleroderma in the early 2000's and suffered a pretty horrific ending.
"We should 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."
This is all I think about. I truly do not think humans are meant to work this much. Like you say, I’m not against working entirely. But I hate how life has to revolve around it, particularly if you end up needing to take a job you don’t enjoy just so that you can afford to live. It’s incredibly alienating to feel out of step with something that our entire culture revolves around. Thanks for writing.
You're spot on.
Amen
Exactly my strategy: barely working (for money, at least) and focusing on living local. Being active in communities, making a difference in people’s lives. It has been freeing to choose this path. I cannot go back to the well paid office life it will kill my soul.
Yes, exactly. I'm happy for you!
I really liked this article. Thanks for making my coffee break enjoyable.
My pleasure, Layne. Thank you!
another fine piece ...
about ten years ago, I heard this psychiatrist on the AM radio going on about how the USA and its economic structure lead to vastly higher rates of.... heart/vascular issues, mental issues, substance abuse, diabetes and cancer
the gentleman was Hungarian I believe -- which caught my attention b/c my wife's father was first generation immigrant from Hungary and he fled to the US due the fallout and violence after the communist uprising that started at the radio tower, and upon arrival he was promptly sent via the Army to fight in Vietnam. He survived Vietnam but not the fallout -- likely due to agent orange and such, he came down with scleroderma in the early 2000's and suffered a pretty horrific ending.
Thank you Antonio🙏
"You thought God was an architect, now you know
He's something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built it's all for show, goes up in flames
In 24 frames"
Jason Isbell
"We should 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