The more I read about UBI, the more I think it's a good idea. Not because, as much of the media and government will say, it is something for nothing, but because it is something for everyone.
Those who still want to work their 40, 50, 60+ hour a week jobs can. Those who want to have lives of luxury, full of the latest designer everything, can still work to achieve that.
But those who can't, or would prefer not to, work those kind of hours can reduce them. Those who don't look for the material in life, but the personal, the spiritual, the familial, those who are happy living on a basic income, could even quit the 9-5 world all together. Instead they could, and would, oh let's think ... be a parent, write a book, create the next big invention, plant a forest, enrich others.
The future, we all, know is changing, and we have to change the way we think to survive it. There won't be enough jobs as technology keeps improving ... there aren't now if the figures are to be believed ... I have seen more than one blogged report in past months showing that there are many times more people unemployed than there are jobs being advertised. Full employment is a pipe dream.
Instead we should start looking to other ways in which we can improve ourselves, and the world around us. Give the thinkers time to think, give the carers time to care, allow the artists the chance to create beautiful things that we can all appreciate.
Yes, I'm sure, especially at first, there will be some who just do not work, who do nothing at all. It is a fact of the human persona that some people are like this. But even they will get bored eventually. Even they will wake up one day and long for something more ... because that is also part of being human.
But even if they don't, that is their choice.
http://realfare.wordpress.com/2014/08/14/6-ways-of-progress-the-universal-basic-income
Think on it ... what would you do with your life, if you had the absolute choice?
Thursday, 14 August 2014
Tuesday, 12 August 2014
Reblog ... Purple Persuasion ... On Seeking Help
I know I've done a lot of reblogs recently, but others are managing to say things that I cannot find the words for at this point in my life. Charlotte Walker's tale here of her many attempts to get help throughout her life sounds so familiar.
I don't claim to suffer from mental illness to the degree she does, but I do have long term depression, and I also have a physical illness that for many years was considered to be 'all in the mind' by many, and in fact has only this year been given a name of any kind for me, despite them both having affected my life for a quarter of a century.
I too was in my early teens when things first started. I too have had the 'puberty, periods, hormones, pregnancy, women's problems' excuses thrown at me. I've been told it 'can't be that because you know too much about it'. And I've also had diagnosis changes thrown at me with no warning, sometimes varying between the actual conversation with the specialist, and the report they then send my GP.
The battle to get help, to discover what the true issue really is, to be believed ... all slotted into periods where the illness is not too bad, but also not too good, so that you are physically and emotionally able to seek help in the first place, and yet not appear 'too well' and hence be written off at the same time ... is an ongoing struggle that all too many are unable to maintain.
http://purplepersuasion.wordpress.com/2014/08/12/on-seeking-help/
I don't claim to suffer from mental illness to the degree she does, but I do have long term depression, and I also have a physical illness that for many years was considered to be 'all in the mind' by many, and in fact has only this year been given a name of any kind for me, despite them both having affected my life for a quarter of a century.
I too was in my early teens when things first started. I too have had the 'puberty, periods, hormones, pregnancy, women's problems' excuses thrown at me. I've been told it 'can't be that because you know too much about it'. And I've also had diagnosis changes thrown at me with no warning, sometimes varying between the actual conversation with the specialist, and the report they then send my GP.
The battle to get help, to discover what the true issue really is, to be believed ... all slotted into periods where the illness is not too bad, but also not too good, so that you are physically and emotionally able to seek help in the first place, and yet not appear 'too well' and hence be written off at the same time ... is an ongoing struggle that all too many are unable to maintain.
http://purplepersuasion.wordpress.com/2014/08/12/on-seeking-help/
Monday, 11 August 2014
Reblog ... The FibroFrog: Isolation
This ... just this ...
The FibroFrog: Isolation: Sometimes, I feel as if I'm stuck inside an isolation tent. Or, like I'm the boy girl in the bubble. This illness is relentl...
The FibroFrog: Isolation: Sometimes, I feel as if I'm stuck inside an isolation tent. Or, like I'm the boy girl in the bubble. This illness is relentl...
Tuesday, 5 August 2014
Reblog ... Rolling with the Punches: Disability Prejudice really does exist
It's the little things ... and the big things ... but until you experience them, you don't realise ...
Rolling with the Punches: Disability Prejudice really does exist: I will never forget Michael Portillo's interview of disabled comedian Francesca Martinez in which she raised the issue of disablism and ...
Rolling with the Punches: Disability Prejudice really does exist: I will never forget Michael Portillo's interview of disabled comedian Francesca Martinez in which she raised the issue of disablism and ...
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