Work, leisure and idleness
We must rethink our love of work and replace it with a love of leisure. In our current world work, leisure and idleness are generally equated with; work is productive, decent, and good; idleness is lazy, stupefying, wasteful and bad, and leisure is a small break from work to refresh oneself, is fun, is a [...]
“What is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid. The second kind is capable of indefinite extension: [...]
Continue reading …
Give them autonomy, connection and confidence and they will build. Put a hammer in their hand and demand they hit the head, a bent nail will bite the wood. Final result based business organisation is a far more productive method of money making than narrow quantitative production control. (two ways of saying the same thing) [...]
Continue reading …Not long ago leisure was held in greater esteem than work. Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, De Tocqueville and more recently Barry Jones all saw work as a necessary toil but something to be avoided, it was leisure not work that lead to great insights, true understanding and wisdom. From the quiet contemplation of one’s surrounding, the [...]
Continue reading …
Recently I have been reading Barry Jones’ Sleepers Wake – Technology and the future of work, written in 1982 it foresees a post service work environment, technology will have saved us from much toil and we will need a guaranteed income for all (similar to my Flat Payment) to provide for all those who are [...]
Continue reading …The only reason for living is being fully alive; and you can´t be fully alive if you are crushed by secret fear, and bullied with the threat: Get money, or eat dirt!– and forced to do a thousand mean things meaner than your nature, and forced to clutch on to possessions in the hope they´ll [...]
Continue reading …Technology was to save us from the drudgery of labour instead Australia has more people in the workforce and we are working longer hours than 25 years ago(1). We have trapped ourselves in a work for income, income to consume, consume to create work cycle which is not just leading to empty lives but is [...]
Continue reading …
Recent Comments