By P. Lemieux
The objective shouldn't be to create jobs, yet to enable humans earn source of revenue on the way to eat what they want.
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Work is a cost, not a benefit. An indication that work is a cost, is that few people would continue to work if offered the same income on condition that they stopped working. , whatever utility they obtain from the leisure-at-work component of their jobs), they could obtain the same from charitable work or from working without pay at their own pace on their own personal projects. Only those incapable of finding a sense of purpose in autonomous activity, and those who are socially handicapped outside the world of employment, would presumably continue to work.
For lack of a better word, we may call this the “Chamber of 40 W h o N e e ds J obs ? ” The Chamber of Commerce approach to economic activity—or to “economic development”—is often shared by development commissioners in local governments, who become professionally obsessed with economic activity. Anything that increases production and commerce is deemed good. The fetish of economic activity includes bringing in subsidized firms and expropriating private homes for business development through eminent domain.
But aren’t those who choose to consume technology goods imposing their choices on others? Don’t people who prefer to live in civilized society impose their preferences on those who would rather have a primitive society? ” It is easier to embrace “voluntary poverty” in a rich society than to play dandy in a communal hut. It is still easier (less costly) to live like a primitive in a developed society than to live like a metrosexual in a primitive tribe. The preferences of the primitive-loving are owed as much respect as those of the suburban consumer, assuming that they don’t want to force them on other people.