Work and Pastime Then and Now

Humankind is smart! I see more and more innovations that make me excited about a better tomorrow. I have no doubt that mankind will clean up our planet, optimize transportation, see victory over matters of injustice, make habitats on other planets, enjoy new heights of enjoyment, and carry out countless more endeavors previously thought to be insane. There is only one problem: money.

We are stuck working for money instead of innovating, creating, exploring, etc. To add insult to injury, most of the jobs we spend our lives doing are menial, useless wastes of time. They require repetitive movements and simple brain processes. Many people are employed as overseers of those employees or the money made by the company. When working those jobs, workers are constantly fearing their inevitable unemployment when machines invade and do their jobs for them…for free…and do them better.

Obviously, this excludes jobs where human judgement is necessary. These jobs include some in the medical field, legal field, security field, and many more. In these fields, higher-order processes are required that seem beyond the intelligence of computers.

I’m not the first to suggest removing money from everyday life. Jacque Fresco, Jade Saab, and Colin Turner are just a few who came to similar conclusions before me. I have been searching for a place to focus my innovative attention and I recently dismissed this idea, concluding that others had it covered. However, since people have been advocating this idea for decades (if not much longer) and the system isn’t budging, I reconsidered. I no longer wonder if removing money from our lives could be a good thing but actively want to chase solutions for making it happen.

Without money-making endeavors, what would you do with your time? Sports? Gardening? Academics? Traveling? Create/design? Practice a new skill? What would others do that would improve your life?

Some people may pursue careers in video, book, or game production. Others may enjoy shaping interior or exterior spaces to provide relaxing, stimulating, or productive atmospheres.

Currently, many people have money-seeking careers in fields commonly viewed as recreational. Categories like sports and video gaming sound like an adult’s dream job: they are well paid for doing something they enjoy. If the focus is on the enjoyment, this is great. However, if the focus is on the money, I wonder if the depths of these fields have been truly explored.

Boxing and other forms of fighting are an academic interest of mine as well as an annoyance. The instinct to survive and conquer seem primitive, innate desires. Having the skills to do both of those things are satisfying and, if you are particularly good at them, should be used as a career. Of course, careers in fighting are often short due to the natural damage to the body (caused by using the body in damaging ways and by being the recipient of those damaging movements). If people could pursue a career in fighting without receiving damage to the body and without the dangling carrot of money, perhaps new and lasting advancements could be made to this entertaining field.

If this sort of logic could be applied to all areas productive and recreational, I believe we would find new limits and depth in each aspect of each field! Imagine every productive endeavor yielding the highest result with the smallest effort and every recreational activity is perfectly immersive and satisfying! This world sounds infinitely better than our current world where people are nickel and dimed over obtaining necessities.

Please read my other posts to continue to learn about my dream for the world. Thank you for reading this one!