Would life suck in a jobless society?

[@AwesomeRando]

I have been unemployed for a couple months now and life has been great. That is until I run out of all the money I have saved and have to get a job again.

[@SpencerBRandall]

The value of a teacher in relation to a salesman was a great point. I'm sure we can all live simply with certain luxurious allowances but there are just people who want more. Who knows maybe equality isn't the answer. But the idea of same income is really interesting. Sometimes I want to govern a city to play Sims irl and see how these theoretical ideas actually pan out.

[@eyeseer1]

There’s no shame in poverty if you don’t care where you are. In the future, people will work to fix the machines that do the jobs that work for them. Work is not equal to progression or by the instinctual ingrains of positive-negative results by actions. People operate on progress or purpose. Work is basis of getting rewarded for a task specific to their abilities. Progression is a evolution in societal and interpersonal development in a group of individuals.

[@eyeseer1]

People who don’t have a job still take initiative to find other progressive outlets. People still have to initiate to take what they earn to suffice in living.

[@ottoalias]

Just came across your channel, great stuff :-)

[@pim9704]

I highly recommend the book "The Usefullnes of the Useless" by Nuccio Ordine. It makes a convincing case for the importance of the "useless" fields such as the arts, literature, music and research with little or no practical applications :)

[@Rolfwar]

Regarding your point on people being upset by the idea of others receiving money without being active or having a job, be advised that this is a quite unique product of Protestant/Lutheran thought (and brought to its maximum expansion in the Calvinist derivation of it) and is, as such, specific to the Anglosphere and Germanic Europe. If you (ideally) move to Southern Europe, or Catholic Europe, you will find that this is seldomly the case, and that people are in general less moralistic about alms or social subsidies. At the same time, these regions are not necessarily as positive towards the wealthy as the protestant world; this is even linguistically evident in some terms, such as the Italian 'affari' ("business"), which in general has no neutral connotation as its English translation, rather, it is inherently negative; a cognate, 'affarista' ("business-maker" or "business-doer") negatively describes someone greedily pursuing profit. But these are just some examples. But more to your thought experiment: you will find that doing away with a salary incentive will yield a very similar distribution of jobs to the one the Soviet Union (or most European socialist countries) had as long as the disparity between, say, a cardiologist and a factory welder remained very low. But other than this, the meaning of work and a satisfactory work experience lies in the question of autonomy (I subscribe to Arendt's theses in "Vita Activa") a part of the work experience, but also in the value and interconnectedness of work and the work-object, i.e. the process and the product of creation (the distinction is semantically lost in English, but is retained in Romance languages with the distinction between 'travaille' and 'œuvre' in French, or 'lavoro' and 'opera' in Italian). Notably, Marx describes alienation in these terms, with the worker being alienated in their work from the work-object, the final purpose of his toil. I also find the spiritual and deistic approach of Simone Weil interesting in this regard, and her own experiences in a factory let to her revelation that it is the properness and timeliness of work made by artisans and paesants (insofar as they can organise it on their own and it retains an 'art of the trade') that makes them so different from the dissociated work of the factory. In this sense, the former retain the ability to derive spiritual and aesthetic solace in their 'so-doing' work and producing a work-object in their own way.

[@_kokos_]

I don't know about Lutheran thought but I know for a fact that people here in germany only get upset because they would have to work but others don't have to. Imagine this: I work and someone else doesn't, so he has more time to do what he wants(but I can't because I work), even worse their money comes from my tax which I paid from my salary, so he is essentially leeching my salary and getting free time. If this happened to western european people, they would be very angry because they are full of ego and they generally don't want others to get anything if they don't get it themselves, but this is only observed from my experience living near the Rhein. Btw. I didn't watch the whole video when writing this.

[@petesake1181]

i think more people should look into the philosophical literature on transformative experience (L. A Paul and Agnes Callard).

[@blankslateyt]

excellent video, keep it up

[@darshan7771patil]

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[@johncrisis8894]

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