Thank goodness I live in 2050! The nonsense they used to believe about work … I couldn’t have borne it! Doing anything as long as you’re working, and buying anything as long as you’re buying! Making ‘providing work’ the excuse for every kind of development! Economies based on continual growth!
We’ve now divided the production of things from the maintenance of things, and all other kinds of work.
We sometimes complain about the stuff we have to do in production – hard work in large-scale farming and industry, in quarries and mines, sometimes for five or six years of our lives – but we can’t think of anything fairer or more logical. If we want things enough we produce them, sharing the work.
We’ve had to organise the basics of world production and distribution to survive - but we accept the limitations, the haphazard natural distribution of raw materials and energy sources. Luxuries are manufactured after needs are met, according, as always, to who buys them.
There are disagreements about need and want, the quality of what we make, and the marketing of new inventions. We make as much as we can ourselves in our localities. Globally, each country trades its excess and imports other peoples’ – its not an exact science, but fair enough.
Perfecting our democracies is freeing us from dictatorship in production as well as politics.
It all began to change when people got to the point where they’d try anything – and everything was tried. Most ideas were being tried out already, or had been on a small scale many years before … theories were abundant!
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Hands on World
Author: Joy Lockton
