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What would you do?
If you could live in a world
where you didn't have to work.
What would you do?
Like in Star Trek, for example, where no one has to work because all goods are “replicated.”
Please share, lots of opinions would be great.
Thanks 🙏 ❤️
Comments are also very welcome, a discussion would be great.
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Yes, that's how I see it too.
I wouldn't be working 200+ hours like I do now, and I would be able to write much more.
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I chose "Don't Work" for the same reasons. :D
The survey should have said "Play" :D
OH play is also a good idea.
Hmm, maybe I can think of another survey where I can have play as an option... hmm, let's see.
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Yes, you're so damn right.
Yes, exactly 💯
That's how it is for many people.
Me...writing...
You're absolutely right.
We should finally turn the whole thing around....
Oops, I didn't know that.
I'd work on what needed to be worked on, but I wouldn't be selling my labour at an unfair price under the threat of poverty to someone who skims off the value of my labour to play Number Go Up games.
Work isn't unpleasant. Being robbed (stolen from under coercion) is unpleasant.
Take the dogs to the beach. Hang with family. Eat out. Fix up the homestead.
BTW, I recently retired after a long career and I found that all the warnings about boredom, loneliness, etc., were a crock. At least for me, I've been able to fill up the time.
I'm glad to hear that.
Was it Mark Twain in his Tom Sawyer story that mentioned, "Work is only work, if you have to do it"
I think we need to define work.
Block me now, I'm about to ramble LOL
The boss who sits at the desk all day while worker bees fill the truck, is he working? Not if you ask the manual laborers. So, this could be subjective.
Work, for financial gain, would not be necessary but those trees I grow won't plant themselves.. I'll be digging the holes. If I didn't have to, I'd still want to.
It would also make us lazy, anything we wanted to do but nothing we had to do
And someone has to tear apart the clock radio so someone else can learn to fix it
Great answer, Rasta.
Thanks.
I won't block you 😂 , I like your answer.
I also think that work would have to be redefined.
I think it would be a recurring, repetitive occupation, but without the bitter taste of servitude...
@si_irini I would do what I do for work, except not exactly that
write software I enjoy rather than software that is useful for some company
contribute to Debian and/or other Free Software projects
and then all of the other crafts I already do in my free time (including documenting what I do and publishing it under free licenses)
Very good question.
Of course I would!
What I would run away from in a jiffy, and what I strongly feel is superfluous and holding us down even now, is not work, but *meaningless* work and subservience.
I don't know much about Star Trek - but even if all material goods could be made without labour, services will still have to be provided.
I'm still going to be teaching. :)
If there was no "work" at all, I'd write bad poetry and grow plants and yap with my friends. Maybe cool and eat delicious food. The things I do *after* work.
Sounds good
Work, but in a very different way. Following my desires and creativity, without pressure.
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That's how it is.
I would write much more.
Yes, and that's exactly what's so incredibly good about Star Trek, but also so damn important for the whole situation in the world.
It's utopian, but it's a great dream for the future.
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I would write more
Perfectly said!!! 💯
I understand the part about going crazy 😆
I think it's great that you do so much, and the volunteer work is really awesome too ❤️
Hey, a book club too, I really like that.
I hope I finish writing my book and then I'll shamelessly suggest that you include it 🙈
So far, there's a lot to read, but I've been stuck in a writing slump for so long and haven't posted anything.
What kind of books do you read in your club?
That sounds great.
I would write much more...and that would make me feel so free.
It wouldn't be work anymore.
I think that's great.
Sounds very good.
Many people would do something for the common good, and I think that's incredibly wonderful.
Not in the way we define work today, no.
We define work in terms of remuneration, and that would no longer exist.
But if we see work as a recurring activity with a rhythm, then that changes.
But this is precisely the question many people ask themselves, and that's normal. It makes you think about what exactly you think work is or should be.
I'd work, but on stuff that's waaaay more fun than writing extensions for MS products lol.
I'd probably build houses and/or some variety of very light but highly practical electric + human power hybrid vehicles
Huh. Just chatted in person with someone who's been on #mastodon for a while, now, who honestly thought that all the Mastodon domains were run by Mastodon. And having a different domain was, like, just a vanity thing to look cool. It only came up because they were complaining about an issue they were having, and they were on a smaller server (not naming it for anonymity), so I suggested contacting their server admin about the problem. I was surprised when they answered "Dude nobody at big companies reads those reports. It just all goes to AI or whatever." It took some actual convincing to get them to believe that the server they're on does, in fact, have a living breathing human admin who can be talked to.
Anyway, folks, support your #fediverse server admins and moderators. With money, where you can. They're almost certainly getting messages from users who think that reporting things to an admin here is exactly like reporting stuff to Facebook or Google. IE: screaming at a giant faceless entity who's never going to care or do anything about whatever your problem is.
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Film as World Literature by Robin Truth Goodman, 2025
Redefines the theoretical and thematic contents of world literature by considering it in connection with film.
What gets lost when we understand film as essentially different from literature? What gets lost when we think them essentially the same?
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Here is the text verbatim: "So if we need white allies in this country, we don't need those kind who compromise. We don't need those kind who encourage us to be polite, responsible, you know. We don't need those kind who give us that kind of advice. We don't need those kind who tell us how to be patient. No, if we want some white allies, we need the kind John Brown was, or we don't need you. And the only way to get those kind is to turn in a new direction."
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The image is a dark, solid black background with white text overlaid on it. The text appears to be a stream of consciousness-style writing, densely packed and spanning the entire image area.
The text reads: "But they depict him in this image because he was willing to shed blood to free the slaves. And any white man who is ready and willing to shed blood for your freedom—in the sight of other whites, he’s nuts. As long as he wants to come up with some nonviolent action, they go for that, if he’s liberal, a nonviolent liberal, a love-everybody liberal. But when it comes time for making the same kind of contribution for your and my freedom that was necessary for them to make for their own freedom, they back out of the situation. So, when you want to know good white folks in history where black people are concerned, go read the history of John Brown. That was what I call a white liberal. But those other kind, they are questionable."
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The text reads verbatim: "Malcolm X on White Abolitionist John Brown. We need allies who are going to help us achieve a victory, not allies who are going to tell us to be nonviolent. If a white man wants to be your ally, what does he think of John Brown? You know what John Brown did? He went to war. He was a man who went to war against white people to help free slaves. He wasn’t nonviolent. White people call John Brown a nut. Go read the history, go read what all of them say about John Brown. They’re trying to make it look like he was a fanatic. They made a movie on it, I saw a movie on the screen one night. Why, I would be afraid to get near John Brown if I go by what other white folks say about him."
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