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From: jim@ism780b.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Re: Drifting sideways into economics - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 25-Jul-84 00:23:06 EDT
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ism780b!jim    Jul 17 22:48:00 1984

> What is so wrong with work that you see it opposed to the human spirit?
> Or what is so wrong with these endeavors of the human spirit that I
> should not get paid for them? I believe that thinking is an activity
> of the huamn spirit and that is what I get paid for now, after all.

I don't think it is work itself that people see opposed to the human spirit.
Rather, it is all your talk of better workers vs. poorer workers,
competant (sic) people vs. less competent people, and your general cold,
elitist, unsympathetic, self-centered, unloving attitude that seems opposed
to the human spirit.  Can't you conceive of a society full of human spirit
in which the concept of being paid for work does not even exist?
There certainly have been plenty of "primitive" societies like that.
Now, most of them carry a lot of coercive baggage that I would like to do
without.  This is net.philosophy; can't we get into a little high-quality
society design, instead of all this wallowing about in "the harsh reality"
(read "status quo")?

-- Jim Balter (ima!jim)