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David Graeber: ‘To save the world, we’re going to have to stop working’
David Graeber: ‘To save the world, we’re going to have to stop working’ Writing as part of Jarvis Cocker’s Big Issue takeover before his untimely death earlier this month, David Graeber explains his confusion about why we’d destroy the planet if we don’t have to. Our society is addicted to work. If there’s anything left […]
Of grain and gulags: a note on work, labour and self-ownership
Of grain and gulags: a note on work, labour and self-ownership I’ll begin with a brief account of how our modern global grain trading system was invented in Chicago in the 19th century, which is maybe a bit of a jolt from the present focus of this blog cycle on the forms of property but hopefully […]
Money: How Its Past Predicts Its Future
Money: How Its Past Predicts Its Future What is money, where does it come from and more importantly where does it go? At first glance, it might appear inexplicable and bizarre that our governments and our rulers have managed to keep their stronghold over the monetary system for 2000 years, especially when one thinks about […]
Climate Jobs for All
Climate Jobs for All Building Block for the Green New Deal It was an iconic moment: Young people occupy Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s office demanding a Green New Deal to put millions of people to work making a climate-safe economy — when suddenly newly-elected Congressional representative and overnight media star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joins them with a resolutionin […]
Workers’ Power vs. Climate Destroyers: What It Will Take to Save the Planet
Workers’ Power vs. Climate Destroyers: What It Will Take to Save the Planet Humanity faces a multi-faceted crisis. Endless wars of imperial aggression, both overt and covert– from Iraq, Syria, Libya and Afghanistan to Yemen, Palestine and Central and South America. These conflagrations compel those at the bottom of the economic pyramid to fight and die […]
Energy slaves, “hard work,” and the real sources of wealth
Energy slaves, “hard work,” and the real sources of wealth Many Canadians and Americans struggle financially. Millions are unemployed. Many others live paycheque-to-paycheque. A 2017 report by the US Federal Reserve Board found that 40 percent of US citizens couldn’t cover an unexpected expense of $400 without selling something or borrowing money. There’s a lot […]
Beware Former Central Bankers Telling You to Work More
Beware Former Central Bankers Telling You to Work More I’m not the only one of course. The financial crisis of 2008/09 similarly shattered the worldview of tens, if not hundreds of millions of people across the globe. I believe that the old manner of doing things as far as organizing an economy and society died […]
Why do we need jobs if we can have slaves working for us?
Why do we need jobs if we can have slaves working for us? We normally assume that anything that creates jobs is a good thing, but is it, really? Is our current prosperity related to having “jobs”? Isn’t it, rather, the result of the large number of “energy slaves” working for us in the form […]
Why We Do Things the ‘Hard Way’
WHY WE DO THINGS THE “HARD WAY” During the past year or so I have frequently wondered why we do things the hard way. Surely it is a lot easier to get a 9-5 job, drive a nice car, have a nice house, buy all our food and just live a “normal” life? Okay, so that would […]
Charles Hugh Smith: Fixing The Way We Work
Charles Hugh Smith: Fixing The Way We Work Closing the wealth gap with meaningful work Charles Hugh Smith returns to the podcast this week to discuss the theme of his new book A Radically Beneficial World: Automation, Technology and Creating Jobs for All. Automation and artificial intelligence are changing the landscape of work. Tens of millions […]
The Reason You Work So Hard to Participate in the Rat Race
The Reason You Work So Hard to Participate in the Rat Race Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “A man in debt is so far a slave.” Money has no intrinsic value yet we spend our days damaging our health and spirit in order to obtain it. Why do we sacrifice our well-being for it? Is it the cliché that […]
Energy, the repressed: Paging Dr. Freud
Energy, the repressed: Paging Dr. Freud Jeremy Rifkin announced the end of work in a book by that title in 1995. Today, we are once again being told that the end of work is nigh. The Atlantic Monthly tells us so in a piece entitled, “A World Without Work.” Automation and computer technology will bring unimaginable change and prosperity–and result in […]
Local Production Means Jobs and Prosperity
Local Production Means Jobs and Prosperity With over 93 million unemployed working age adults in America and the economy beginning to go negative again, if you are fortunate enough to have a job it may not last much longer. It is easy to keep a positive attitude about the economy when you get a paycheck every […]
The Salt Mind
The Salt Mind The plan was always for me to return to ‘work’, aka gainful employment, after finishing several major sustainability improvement projects to our mountain top homestead. After nearly two years of continuous work on over a dozen undertakings large and small, several months ago the time finally arrived. Of course, the plan always […]
Our Social Depression
Our Social Depression This erosion of opportunities to complete life’s stages and core dramas is rarely recognized, much less addressed. The consequences of economic stagnation are not limited to finance: stagnation is causing a social depression. We can best understand this social depression by examining how the natural stages of human life are being disrupted. Each stage has […]
