R/Evolution
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Excerpt from "Money and the Crisis of Civilization" by Charles Eisenstein: "Anything you learn to do for yourself or for other people, without paying for it; any utilization of recycled or discarded materials; anything you make instead of buy, give instead of sell; any new skill or new song or new art you teach yourself or another, will reduce the dominion of money and grow a gift economy to sustain us through the coming transition. The world of the Gift, echoing primitive gift societies, the web of ecology, and the spiritual teachings of the ages, is nigh upon us." |
The article below (I could not find the author's name) is on CNN.com and entitled "Are Jobs Obsolete?"
..."While [unemployment] is certainly bad for workers and unions, I have to wonder just how truly bad is it for people. Isn't this what all this technology was for in the first place?...
What we lack is not employment, but a way of fairly distributing the bounty we have generated through our technologies...
..."While [unemployment] is certainly bad for workers and unions, I have to wonder just how truly bad is it for people. Isn't this what all this technology was for in the first place?...
What we lack is not employment, but a way of fairly distributing the bounty we have generated through our technologies...