Monday, April 16, 2012

Let's talk with the aim if getting it "right"

Life lived through the
corporate/profit/growth prism
obviously hasn't worked and
 now we need something new.
The idea of a Four-Hour Work Day, when considered through the present commercial prism, is absolutely unworkable, but we (society generally) needs to have a discussion about how we adapt to a future which simply has to be decidedly different from the present corporatized profit and growth driven mindset that has the world on its knees.

What exists is clearly not working as it has created huge inequities among the people of the world, is exhausting or has exhausted the world's finite resources and in filling up the earth's natural sinks (the oceans, for argument's sake, absorb excess carbon dioxide and they are so full, that they are becoming acidic and so killing sea-borne species at an alarming rate).

We need a different way of doing things and although the idea of a Four-Hour Work Day might be naive, at least it is a way of breaking the nexus between corporate profit, work and the wellbeing of individuals and so society.

We have tried the corporate/profit/growth idea for a couple of centuries and it obviously hasn't worked and now we need to try something else and may, just maybe a Four-Hour Work Day is a step toward getting it right, what "right" might be is questionable, although what exists is clearly not "right".

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