There is something wrong with "workers mentality"
Today, the Danish government published it's ambitions of new reforms: To have more people working, and those already working should be working more.
I think there is something inherently wrong with this sort of mentality and society in general. I'm well aware that the unemployment is low and that the industries needs more workers. But so what?
Why should we humans be slaves? What would happen, if everybody were entitled to $2000/month - unconditionally (no work required) provided they don't earn money? Society would be poorer. But so what?
What's the point of working till your death, if you're not happy with life? If all you life is about work and you don't have the freedom to decide what you would do in your life - what's the point of living?
I'd rather commit suicide than be a slave.
I think there is something inherently wrong with this sort of mentality and society in general. I'm well aware that the unemployment is low and that the industries needs more workers. But so what?
Why should we humans be slaves? What would happen, if everybody were entitled to $2000/month - unconditionally (no work required) provided they don't earn money? Society would be poorer. But so what?
What's the point of working till your death, if you're not happy with life? If all you life is about work and you don't have the freedom to decide what you would do in your life - what's the point of living?
I'd rather commit suicide than be a slave.
Money can't just materialise out of thin air. At the same time the people on work can't be expected to work longer to pay for those who refuse.
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People need to work because things need to be done.
Money is worth only as much as one can buy for it - if no one worked but everyone got money, this money would be perfectly worthless.
Where is the point of healthy balance between need for having things done and risk of wage slavery? With machines and automation, I believe this point of balance should move towards less wage work and more social contribution - but not to the extreme.
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Let's not confuse being normal with being mentally healthy.
<not moderating PPR stuff concerning East Europe>
It actually can be done as a fiat (non-backed) currency on pieces of paper. A government entity can print or coin as much as they have supplies for theoretically, but that is not a wise move. The catch is that it would become worthless to anyone using it.
See Post WWI Germany notgeld currency as an example. It took wheel barrel loads of it to buy a loaf of bread. It was worth more as a heat source or toilet paper then it was in actual money. They suffered critical bouts of inflation at the time.
I think there is something inherently wrong with this sort of mentality and society in general. I'm well aware that the unemployment is low and that the industries needs more workers. But so what?
Why should we humans be slaves? What would happen, if everybody were entitled to $2000/month - unconditionally (no work required) provided they don't earn money? Society would be poorer. But so what?
What's the point of working till your death, if you're not happy with life? If all you life is about work and you don't have the freedom to decide what you would do in your life - what's the point of living?
I'd rather commit suicide than be a slave.
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I think there is something inherently wrong with this sort of mentality and society in general. I'm well aware that the unemployment is low and that the industries needs more workers. But so what?
Why should we humans be slaves? What would happen, if everybody were entitled to $2000/month - unconditionally (no work required) provided they don't earn money? Society would be poorer. But so what?
What's the point of working till your death, if you're not happy with life? If all you life is about work and you don't have the freedom to decide what you would do in your life - what's the point of living?
I'd rather commit suicide than be a slave.
The fear of employment. Ironic considering a lot of people who advocate free money for no work seem to hold very strong beliefs that working is oppressive yet their principals are soon lost when they realise others have to work (become oppressed) to provide these people with free money.
I think there is something inherently wrong with this sort of mentality and society in general. I'm well aware that the unemployment is low and that the industries needs more workers. But so what?
Why should we humans be slaves? What would happen, if everybody were entitled to $2000/month - unconditionally (no work required) provided they don't earn money? Society would be poorer. But so what?
What's the point of working till your death, if you're not happy with life? If all you life is about work and you don't have the freedom to decide what you would do in your life - what's the point of living?
I'd rather commit suicide than be a slave.
The fear of employment. Ironic considering a lot of people who advocate free money for no work seem to hold very strong beliefs that working is oppressive yet their principals are soon lost when they realise others have to work (become oppressed) to provide these people with free money.
If employers need work done, increasing the wages has traditionally been a good incentive for those doing the work.
Why should unemployed people be forced to work, in order for the employers to keep wages low?
Increase the wages - then work will be done.
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There's another word for the above description: Slavery.
I say: Abolish slavery.
Employees are paid wages, are considered dispensable, and are forced to work by their own needs and ambitions.
Equating employment with slavery is erroneous; and stating that equivocation is incitement.
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People should rise up against all types of forced labor: Conscription, work-duty, wage-slavery/cheap labor.
The Means of Production should be seized by the Common People and the former employers should be tried by The People's Revolutionary Tribunal.
People should rise up against all types of forced labor: Conscription, work-duty, wage-slavery/cheap labor.
The Means of Production should be seized by the Common People and the former employers should be tried by The People's Revolutionary Tribunal.
Communism has failed pretty badly in all countries that tried it. Are you against working full stop by any chance or only for unskilled, low paid jobs?
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Let's not confuse being normal with being mentally healthy.
<not moderating PPR stuff concerning East Europe>
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Employees are forced to work by duties of the State, either through the fear of hunger and homelessness or by means of making unemployment illegal.
Workers are the property of the State & Government. In Denmark, industry workers are unknowingly brainwashed and enslaved by the Social-Democratic Party, by the means of taxation:
The Social-Democrats are taxing their incomes heavily yet not allowing for a high minimum wage. Through this method, the workers stay workers until they can legally retire at an old age.
At the very least a very, very high minimum wage should be in place, and every unemployed citizen should have the right to refuse work and get UBI - or get employment and paid high minimum wages.
This way, the workers can actually afford to put money aside for early retirement - a private early pension scheme and be totally free of the interference from the State, Party and Government. But this political view is banned by the Social-Democrats.
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