Ancient peoples (and tribes folk today) work no more than 16 hours a week, yet produce everything they need to live comfortably and happily.
Today in our modern culture with centuries, millennia even of labour saving technological advances, many of us work 40+ hours a week and still don't earn enough to live comfortably, often still having to claim 'benefits' (which is a complete misnomer,but that's another story for another time) just to make ends meet.
So in answer to your question, yes it is a reality of nature that we must work but only in so far as that we need to build shelter and gather food. Which if you have nothing more than a knife or an axe to your name, take no more than 16 hours. We don't really need to build any more shelters, we've already got plenty (although millions of people go homeless) so that /should/ be half our labour taken care of. And let's assume that there are too many of us to eat like hunter gatherer people, and we are dependent on agriculture for food. Still, not a problem. The good thing about plants is, the sun and the soil do 90% of the work. Now at harvest time, you've got your hands full (that is when the ancient people's would be working their full 16 hours) and for particularly delicate produce, that is still the case but most things now are harvest mechanically.
Now I know what you're thinking "Ah, but Franko, where does the metal come from to build those machines? What about fuel and electricity?"
Have you seen to drilling tech we have today? And again, with myriad renewable energy methods (which, like plants have 90% of the work done by nature) Then, where's the need for /so much/ labour?
There are 7bn of us, if each of us put in an hour a week we could have all that taken care of and plenty more besides,, precisely because of the technology we posses (and remember, for the rest of the week, people aren't dormant, they're raising families and tending the sick and creating great art and exploring the ocean depths and the heavens above and yeah sitting around in their pants eating leftover pizza from time to time.
But no, we are all compelled (on pain of hunger, homelessness, destitution and ultimately death) to work as many hours as we possibly can, often at entirely unproductive paper shuffling or simply 'acting busy' all in the pursuit of of made up numbers (that don't even equate to anything tangible, they are pure theory) and for the majority of folk, they don't even get a look in on those theoretical numbers, only the guys who spend their days swanning about playing golf and drinking Martinis do, and they get assigned so many of those theoretical numbers that they become utterly meaningless, even tho over 90% of the people depend on having access to those numbers to survive.
It is a completely pointless exercise, from a production point of view. That taken as a given we can therefore look at it's true purpose which is simply an (albeit rather extreme) method of maintaining social caste systems and hierarchies as a means to codify this subordination in to the subconscious thereby making them a malleable force, easy to control for the golf playing, Martini swigging, child-raping minority who have manipulated their way to the top of this social structure, as they always will so long as such hierarchical structures are maintained.
It's a plan so devious and so immense that those who are in it's clutches will struggle to see the proverbial wood for the all the mindless exhausting labour their being subjected to. And the beauty of it is, it's utterly insane. Tell that to the average man in the street whose been dutifully indoctrinated to it, you'd sound like a raving lunatic. Credit where it's due, it's fiendishly brilliant. Imagine what those minds could have achieved if our society wasn't structured like a fucking pyramid scheme. Think of a golden age of technology, the likes of Hillary, and Edison *spit* and Tesla, Di Vinci, where men of means would use those means, to invent and explore and philosophise. A society which valued the acquisition of knowledge over power (As we see is the true goal of the pursuit of money)
Today in our modern culture with centuries, millennia even of labour saving technological advances, many of us work 40+ hours a week and still don't earn enough to live comfortably, often still having to claim 'benefits' (which is a complete misnomer,but that's another story for another time) just to make ends meet.
So in answer to your question, yes it is a reality of nature that we must work but only in so far as that we need to build shelter and gather food. Which if you have nothing more than a knife or an axe to your name, take no more than 16 hours. We don't really need to build any more shelters, we've already got plenty (although millions of people go homeless) so that /should/ be half our labour taken care of. And let's assume that there are too many of us to eat like hunter gatherer people, and we are dependent on agriculture for food. Still, not a problem. The good thing about plants is, the sun and the soil do 90% of the work. Now at harvest time, you've got your hands full (that is when the ancient people's would be working their full 16 hours) and for particularly delicate produce, that is still the case but most things now are harvest mechanically.
Now I know what you're thinking "Ah, but Franko, where does the metal come from to build those machines? What about fuel and electricity?"
Have you seen to drilling tech we have today? And again, with myriad renewable energy methods (which, like plants have 90% of the work done by nature) Then, where's the need for /so much/ labour?
There are 7bn of us, if each of us put in an hour a week we could have all that taken care of and plenty more besides,, precisely because of the technology we posses (and remember, for the rest of the week, people aren't dormant, they're raising families and tending the sick and creating great art and exploring the ocean depths and the heavens above and yeah sitting around in their pants eating leftover pizza from time to time.
But no, we are all compelled (on pain of hunger, homelessness, destitution and ultimately death) to work as many hours as we possibly can, often at entirely unproductive paper shuffling or simply 'acting busy' all in the pursuit of of made up numbers (that don't even equate to anything tangible, they are pure theory) and for the majority of folk, they don't even get a look in on those theoretical numbers, only the guys who spend their days swanning about playing golf and drinking Martinis do, and they get assigned so many of those theoretical numbers that they become utterly meaningless, even tho over 90% of the people depend on having access to those numbers to survive.
It is a completely pointless exercise, from a production point of view. That taken as a given we can therefore look at it's true purpose which is simply an (albeit rather extreme) method of maintaining social caste systems and hierarchies as a means to codify this subordination in to the subconscious thereby making them a malleable force, easy to control for the golf playing, Martini swigging, child-raping minority who have manipulated their way to the top of this social structure, as they always will so long as such hierarchical structures are maintained.
It's a plan so devious and so immense that those who are in it's clutches will struggle to see the proverbial wood for the all the mindless exhausting labour their being subjected to. And the beauty of it is, it's utterly insane. Tell that to the average man in the street whose been dutifully indoctrinated to it, you'd sound like a raving lunatic. Credit where it's due, it's fiendishly brilliant. Imagine what those minds could have achieved if our society wasn't structured like a fucking pyramid scheme. Think of a golden age of technology, the likes of Hillary, and Edison *spit* and Tesla, Di Vinci, where men of means would use those means, to invent and explore and philosophise. A society which valued the acquisition of knowledge over power (As we see is the true goal of the pursuit of money)