Governor plans to completely eliminate welfare for families , page 4

Originally posted by spaznational

Originally posted by DangerDeath
This is an artificial problem.
The whole idea that one must work in order to live is flawed. How much one needs to work? The real need is to enslave people, to make sure the few in power stay in power (it's a sickness, nothing else).

How much people really need to work to live a decent life, excluding stupid obsessions? Really?

And creating so many jobless people is the oldest strategy of the principle Divide and Rule. It is too transparent to be unnoticed.

I'm really surprised that people so readily turn against each others, start spitting and blaming their neighbors, while it is clear that the authorities have created all this mess with careful premeditation.

The point of working is to make money so you can purchase things you need to survive and thrive. There isn't actually a requirement that you work. (You're defining work here as a regular 40-hour/week job, I think, so that's the definition I'm using.) You could always go live on a hippie commune and grow organic maize. You could find nontypical sources of income such as providing services for other people in exchange for money or goods... this is called entrepreneurship.

You don't have to be a "wage-slave."

But to live a decent life you do have to DO SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE. Call it work, or entrepreneurship, or growing organic maize. Do you really think it's fine for someone to sit around on his a$$ all day and expect to be rewarded for it? You have to contribute something to the economy to get a return from the economy... that's what defines an economy.

I wouldn't start from those who are suckling on welfare, but on what really causes it. Because, if you want to cure it, you have to dismantle it properly.

Most people believe that what they get for their work is fair. It is not. It is a very small percentage of what they really contributed. This is what I mean when I say "work how much"? I think that people are overworked to great extent but they have no clue how much. A lot.

And even from what those people "earn" can be deduced to be enough for the welfare. A huge amount of money is being stolen by various means, through control of prices for commodities to drugs and entertainment and all those unnecessary things. Practically everything one earns has to be spent - that is the basis for this illusion of "exchange".

In reality, the authorities hoard and establish monopoly on all things that are realistically needed for people to live decently, and there is a big surplus of those things. Just think of how big modern times' productivity is, and how much food is being destroyed every year just to maintain prices (in order to maintain the illusion that one must work 40 + hours a week). Yes, that's the game, the "idea" I'm talking about. This is the same idea now as it was 100 years ago, like nothing changed in the ways of productivity. No way! this idea has been made a constant while it really is a variable.

And think of the way of life of humankind, the tensions between states, how much money and resources are spent for that? The military, covert operations, security measures... etc. This is the enormous part of the budget which is a total waste, and people are forced to believe they are doing their best in earnest. It is not like that at all. The idea of state is to control food and other necessities and for one purpose only. The purpose expressed as such an idea: one must earn his living. It is being enforced, it is not "natural". The natural struggle for survival is pure ideology of the ruling class, in nature things are not really like that. In nature everything is for free. It is the relationship between predators and game which is emphasized as struggle for survival, and that is a typical social situation.

That is the ideology I am talking about. It has been imposed on everyone and all education and science, mass culture etc. is manipulated to support it.

Look at this silly argument, the government which threw trillions of dollars to the banking black hole doesn't have 5,5 billion dollars to help California!!! Give me a break! You can believe that if you want, but it is ridiculous. It stinks from miles.

They are turning America and Americans into one big carcass and very soon you will be in situation to confirm that despite your bewilderment.

And where did all the good work from hard working people go? Can you answer that?