I get in touch here and there with what's written in the "doctrines", or rather call them "the big books of this", but I never read them myself because - one reason is lack of time, another is: "All people who once start to read these don't do anything but quoting any random line from it in every life situation from then on.". And I don't want to turn into any of these, I feel like I've already had that in my life with someone else's words.
And... one thing in between that disturbs me very much is this making a God out of "work". There are so many conditions in life that can render you unable to follow that - that make can "working" your least concern. So, what's it worth - a system that bases your value as a person or creature not on money, but on your capability to perform a certain task or on the general skillfulness of your hands alone? Doesn't that aim for the same outcome? If you don't have any of both - neither money, nor skill -, what then? You're going to get forced to something or excluded from society or executed for being useless? All of that, I think the old doctrines don't answer in a satisfying way. It's because they're from former centuries. They're not adapted to a world where humans make their own performance superfluous. Or where the world will be so overpopulated that, if all would get a propper job, it needed the resoures of 7 planet earths to make that daily compulsion possible until death.
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Date: 9 February 2020 06:34 pm (UTC)And... one thing in between that disturbs me very much is this making a God out of "work".
There are so many conditions in life that can render you unable to follow that - that make can "working" your least concern.
So, what's it worth - a system that bases your value as a person or creature not on money, but on your capability to perform a certain task or on the general skillfulness of your hands alone? Doesn't that aim for the same outcome?
If you don't have any of both - neither money, nor skill -, what then? You're going to get forced to something or excluded from society or executed for being useless?
All of that, I think the old doctrines don't answer in a satisfying way. It's because they're from former centuries. They're not adapted to a world where humans make their own performance superfluous. Or where the world will be so overpopulated that, if all would get a propper job, it needed the resoures of 7 planet earths to make that daily compulsion possible until death.