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| Mar 29, 2010 9:39 pm |
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re: re: money and debt in today's environment ... |
Ken Hilving
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I don't think the issue is money or debt. This is a perception issue based on our cultural focus on money as the exchange.
With the start of the Industrial Revolution, we have dramatically shifted from human labor to machine labor. This has reduced costs, increased availablility, improved quality, and generally offered us the opportunity of the highest standard of living humanity has ever known.
Unfortunately, our distribution method has been based on exchanging human labor for money (jobs), and money for goods and services. In just a few short generations we have made the jobs nearly obsolete, but we are still tied to money as our distribution mechanism.
Forget all the bull about lazy people, parasites, and socialism. The vast majority of people out of work are quite willing to work, but the jobs aren't there. Our global production has advanced in all areas to where the human involvement is no longer crucial. This is fantastic, except without work the majority of people cannot participate in the bounty.
This is a fundamental shift in the entire concept of human life. It changes the entire definition of human values, both in how we assess others and how we assess our self worth.
It may be a shift we are unable to handle.Private Reply to Ken Hilving (new win) |
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