So, this was a stroke of inspiration that came from the last article about vaush and AI, but this is actually an OLD idea of mine. Like, so old I thought of it when I was a christian.
So, we all know Jesus's sermon on the mount right, and how there were 5000 guys there, right? And we all know how Jesus took like one kid's lunch of a few fish and loaves of bread, and how he multiplied it through his god magic to feel everyone there, right? Well....here's the thing. In the eyes of modern law, Jesus committed IP theft. Think of all of the bakers and fishermen that Jesus screwed out of earning money, because Jesus just came along and fed 5000 people off of one person's lunch. Those people have JOBS. Those people need to work for a living producing fish and bread for people to eat. We can't have that guy just taking someone else's work, and multiplying it, denying them sales? Think of how badly that that multiplication negatively impacted the economy. Think of how much less GDP growth we'll get because he PIRATED that bread and fish! Think of how he screwed the vineyards by turning water into wine. Water into wine?! I mean, that's costing JOBS, right there! You wouldn't download a car! OH NOES, NOW JESUS JUST GAVE EVERYONE A CAR AT ONE OF HIS SERMONS LIKE HE IS OPRAH!
Ya know, that's what jobists sound like to me. They seem to miss the point that this idea that we make people work for money is because we need people to work for money, because unlike Jesus and his miracles, stuff doesnt come out of thin air. But say it did. Or say we could develop AI and automation to make it make stuff without human labor. That could be life changing. We could choose to free people from work. We could rethink our social structures to come up with a new economic system to meet peoples' needs. Instead we take away their paychecks and make them get new jobs so that they produce other things. Forever. Ad infinitum.
I know when the luddite fallacy comes up, the jobists act like this is a good thing. Like, "oh don't you worry, we'll make a new job for you somewhere!" "What if I dont want a new job?" "What do you mean you dont want a new job, you must be lazy!" And there it goes again.
Like, this entire economy we have is a made up thing. We made it up. We made up the rules. And even I could see, as a christian, when my concept of rules were built on the idea of the bible, that stuff like IP laws were made up. They didnt exist in nature. They werent objective. These are all concepts we made. And as an ex christian who has come to realize that ALL of these ideas are made up, like, every single idea is made up, and none come from a god, and while sure, I get that in the "real world" for most of our existence, maybe all of us did need to work for our society to properly function. But it really does come off to me like we're past the fact of NEEDING to work like this. The fact that we keep people in poverty in order to force them to work, and then struggle to create the jobs for people to do, is a completely artificial problem. Our economy, is completely artificial. Markets dont exist in nature. We made them up. We made all of this up. We made this entire system based on rules to do certain things, and at this point, it seems quite clear it just enslaves us. The economy should exist for people not people for the economy. Work is a means to an end, not an end in itself. And this is where these ideas of mine came from. Even as a christian, I had the realization that if it didnt come from god, we made it up. And now since, as I see it, none of it came from god, we made ALL of it up. And we can change the rules of our society to achieve whatever outcome we want. Some people might see the idea of redistributing from the rich to the poor as immoral because they deserve their wealth. Why? Because of some artificial idea of property ownership? You know what comes off to me as even more immoral? Forcing the poor to work for the rich in exchange for their basic needs, when we have a society with more than enough for everyone. And I'm calling this crap as it is.
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