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The End of Work
Work will, in general become far more pleasant and comfortable, and form a much
lesser part of people's lives. Life from birth to death will be secured. It will
therefore become possible to do away with work altogether for every member of
humanity and still ensure basic survival. In the perfect world, people will have
to be paid well enough to work because their basic survival would already be
secured, whether they work or not. People will work only if they are paid enough
and/or given a work they like to do or find interesting. At last, the worker
shall be the true boss who dictates the terms.
It is possible for us to secure the basic survival of all human beings from
birth to death before he or she is born. The need to work to survive should not
exist. What if a person is born handicapped or falls sick? Does he or she
deserve to have the necessities of life cut off from reaching him or her if such
a thing happens, since they cannot work anymore? On the contrary, it is when
such a thing happens that the necessities of life are most needed, in addition
to which medicine and healthcare are also required to cure the person of
sickness or disease. We cannot secure the latter without first securing the
former. No, the necessities of life ought to be secured from birth to death, no
matter what else. Whether a person is handicapped or diseased or not, he or she
nevertheless deserves to have his or her basic necessities of life secured from
birth to death, because that would be the proper respectable treatment of every
new human being born into the world. It is only for extra luxuries or comforts
that a person be forced to work. Forcing a person to work for his basic survival
is demeaning and derogatory to human dignity and self-respect. It is akin to
telling him that he should not have been born, but now that he has been born, if
he wants to live, he must work. Man is lowered in dignity when he has to work
for his survival. We are like trains that will blow up if it goes below 50
miles/hour. People might think that if no one has to work for survival,
everyone's going to be lazy, useless people. That may or may not be true, but is
the alternative, survival of only the fit, causing masses of poverty and
suffering on one hand and billionaires on the other, a better solution?
If we ensure that children have their first five years of life financially
secured for their basic survival without having to work, we can later on extend
that time span to 10, 15, 20, 25 years. It is because we do not do that, that
even children are having to work to survive in today's world. Passing laws
against child labor or writing essays condemning it is ineffective and foolish.
When we have reached the point when the first 25 years of a person's life has to
be secured right before he or she is born, we still not ought to stop. Though
the person would most likely have learnt some trade or skill by then to support
himself or herself for the rest of his or her life, basic survival cannot be
left to his or her ability to work or not. Basic survival from birth to death
ought to be financially secured, and should not be at the mercy of any other
external factor. At any time in life a person should have to work only to obtain
the luxuries, comforts or conveniences one aspires for in regards to his wishes,
dreams or personal projects.
To do this, we first ensure that basic financial capability is required by law
to become a parent, i.e., to produce offspring. When this law has been
effectively implemented, no person will be born into a poor family, and almost
everyone will be provided with the right shelter and education to support
themselves till death. Next, we ensure effective implementation of this law, so
that no one is left out and everyone will be provided with the right shelter and
education to support themselves till death. After a number of years, the law
will have been implemented well enough to enable every citizen to deposit a
certain fixed amount of money, which can secure the indispensable bare
necessities of life for their offspring from birth to death. All that remains is
to require that amount of money as a deposit to secure the basic necessities of
life, from the parents, by law, before the birth of every child. A deposit that
will be regulated and channeled by society or government to ensure that 60-100
years of basic life necessities are provided in a timely manner for the
offspring, hence securing his or her entire lifespan before birth. Behold, the
perfect world!
Imagine a world where the basic necessities of life for a 100 years are ready
for every newborn human. That person would not have to work a single day in his
life. It would depend on how many basic necessities of life are secured. If it
were just food and water, the person would have to work for shelter and
clothing. If all the basic necessities of life: food, water, shelter and
clothing are provided for every human being throughout his life, without him
having to work for it, that would be the perfect society. This huge fault of
society, one that we have learnt not to question, is that one ought to work to
live. Such a tenet or statement is a slap in the face of human dignity. If the
statement was, "One ought to work to get luxuries in life," that would sound a
whole lot more reasonable. Otherwise, food, water, shelter and clothing would
become luxuries, which they are not. They are necessities, not luxuries. Society
should realize the difference between necessities and luxuries. If everything is
a luxury, one has to work for everything in life, which is the case today. If
everything is a necessity, one ought not to have to work for anything in life.
Neither is true. Neither can be true. But we follow the former. Everything is
not a luxury. Everything is not a necessity, either. Some are necessities, like
food, water, clothing and shelter while the rest are luxuries. The air we
breathe, the food we eat, the water we drink and the shelter we live in should
never become luxuries, as these are all necessities. If it is not ensured that
these are present for a person who is to be born into the world, then these
necessities become luxuries for him, he will have to pay for them and
consequently his survival is under threat if he does not do what society
requires of him or is incapable of doing it. One should therefore not have to
work to obtain the basic necessities of survival.
Today, one has to work for everything in life. Nothing is free. The only
exception is the air we breathe. But with the ever-increasing pollution, clean
air to breathe will become a luxury and will be packaged and sold in future.
Just like food, drinking water, clothing and shelter. Once upon a time all these
used to be free. But now, all the necessities of life are fast turning into
luxuries. Everything has a price tag except the human being. Everything becomes
a luxury except a human being. Anyone can have a human being without paying for
it. So, no one values a human being. Houses, cars, gadgets, food and shelter
will be valued over and above a human because they have a price tag while a
human being does not. A human being has to create value for himself by utilizing
his talents or capital or skills handed over to him in a manner suiting the
requirements of society. Only then he acquires a price tag. Even then his price
tag ultimately depends on how much has been handed over to him, in the form of
talent, capital or skill, and therefore can be either too high or too low. If he
has his basic life necessities secured for his entire lifespan before his birth,
his price is reasonably high and he can't be bought cheap. He will work only if
his employer pays him enough to enable him to get some luxury in life that he
aspires for. Even if he doesn't work, he has nothing to fear because his basic
necessities for survival will always be available to him. This would happen only
if his parents are required to pay for his entire supply of basic necessities of
life before his birth. Besides not having to work, this individual will also be
able to fully express his individuality, which is not possible in today's world
because one's unsecured survival is threatened in doing so. But this
individual's survival will not be threatened, no matter what he does or doesn't
do, since it has already been secured before his birth.
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