My only hope is that I can at least start something with a local community centered around helping people achieve self-sufficiency. The idea is that people are kind of inherently well, abusive, and exploitative of each other, and making them self-sufficient would solve most of the issue and render work redundant eventually.
It would also conveniently put the abusive/exploitative kind of people in an inconvenient position, as they depend on you not having food, clothing, medicine in order to exploit you, force you to behave in whatever sick way they require of you.
You can’t exploit yourself, and you can pick people who you get along with to hang out with, once there is no material incentive in the way.
This can quietly depower entire governments if it goes far enough (it won’t, but whatever), would leave the most rich and powerful much poorer, would improve the behavior of people in general, if they could feel comfortable being unemployed, and tell an unreasonable employer to sod off. The rat race does dehumanize people, and turn them into monsters.
I agree. I think the most in your face example of this is blackmailing US citizens into signing for the army so they can get access to basic freedoms. With UBI and healthcare, the scheme would absolutely crumble
My only hope is that I can at least start something with a local community centered around helping people achieve self-sufficiency. The idea is that people are kind of inherently well, abusive, and exploitative of each other, and making them self-sufficient would solve most of the issue and render work redundant eventually.
It would also conveniently put the abusive/exploitative kind of people in an inconvenient position, as they depend on you not having food, clothing, medicine in order to exploit you, force you to behave in whatever sick way they require of you.
You can’t exploit yourself, and you can pick people who you get along with to hang out with, once there is no material incentive in the way.
This can quietly depower entire governments if it goes far enough (it won’t, but whatever), would leave the most rich and powerful much poorer, would improve the behavior of people in general, if they could feel comfortable being unemployed, and tell an unreasonable employer to sod off. The rat race does dehumanize people, and turn them into monsters.
That is basically the thesis and goal.
I agree. I think the most in your face example of this is blackmailing US citizens into signing for the army so they can get access to basic freedoms. With UBI and healthcare, the scheme would absolutely crumble