Laeserin @Laeserin - 20h
What do we spend the money on, once nobody works?
We're already at the point where the most vitally-important positions pay much less than fake jobs, so people are quitting them. Now, the fake job people have lots of money, but struggle to purchase essential goods and services.
It's funny how everyone is like "Where experienced Nostr Devs?" Well, where _any_ experienced devs? Where sewer cleaner or plumber? Where electrician? Where souschef? Where industrial mechanic? The majority of the population is paid to work part-time or is on permanent vacation or learned "something studies" and can't figure out how to boil water.
Yes, of course. Just try to build a house in southern Germany. Or rent one.
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Makes sense.
Imagine the consumer price inflation. The same amount of money chasing fewer and fewer goods. Like buying toilet paper before a lockdown. ๐
We've gone from "we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us" to "we refuse to work and they pay us, anyway".
Laeserin @Laeserin - 19h
Meme coins, is another possibility.
Yeah. I can see that.
Who builds the castles, if nobody works? Who makes the sculptures, if nobody works? Who plants the gardens, if nobody works? This whole dystopia is predicated upon the idea that those things are not work.
Laeserin @Laeserin - 18h
It doesn't make sense for everyone to do the same types of work. Different people should do different work and then use money to exchange their own efforts for the efforts of others. That's what money is for: storing up the time and energy expended during work, so that it can be traded. As soon as you specialize and do the same thing over and over, it becomes work, because you will become so efficient that other people will pay you for it, rather than doing it themselves. I like to work with computers and would fiddle around with them, as a hobby. I could not ever become efficient with it, if I were also planting a garden. But, if I am not planting a garden, WHAT DO I EAT? I have to eat the produce from someone else's garden. Which means someone else has to produce a surplus of produce. At that point, we are both working.
Laeserin @Laeserin - 5h
Of course. The purchasing power of the money will just sink down enough, that people are motivated to work again.
But only a subset of people has an intrinsic, persistent urge to labor. As we can see.
