What if I don’t want to work for 4 years?
What degree of effort is a system worth that provides you with unconditional support with respect to your basic needs so you can live your life to your full enjoyment unstifled by demands of a labour market wherein you have to be competitive, have to accumulate knowledge, manipulate your expression and presentation, your image and reputation - the list goes on. The Equal Money System will supply you with the freedom from all these life inhibiting elements and aspects. To make this work for everyone and to be a part in this grand support system which will become humanity’s new life-respecting self-expression as Earthlings, one makes a statement of accepting and allowing oneself as and within it by contributing some time to the system as oneself of sharing group activities directed at creating and maintaining organic produce and other necessities of life which are then distributed to all equally.
The conscriptive nature of this contribution to the group might sound like a draft to the army and a subjection to exercises of forced labour as in military camps. No!
This is not combat training, drills nor hard senseless physical work. It will be fun to actually experience oneself in a group of peers that work hand in hand toward providing the basic support for the world as oneself.
The equal money system is an opportunity to live a dignified life. If you don’t want to work for 4 years you will obviously not partake in the support the system provides and will have to struggle for survival within the current system to generate income till the end while others are actually supporting themselves and the group as themselves. There will obviously be a range of tasks, jobs and professions where one can pitch in and be part of the group effort meaning it won’t be hard manual labour that is being alluded to here. And it makes sense to do the work as a contribution to quality that is valued and needed. Thus you are able to respect yourself by doing this work, in contrast to the nonsensicality of most jobs in this world that produce nothing of quality or usefulness.
Here are some examples of tasks that are needed to provide for the basics:
- The manufacturing of clothing
- The building and maintaining of housing & living infrastructure
- Energy production, such as electricity
- Providing clean drinking water
- Sewage system building and maintenance
- Agriculture/Food production and distribution
- Education and schooling
- Health care
- Organization/Administration
- Computer and software
- Research, etc.
See that one would actually be harming oneself by standing apart from what is best for all as the universe is a group and if you are making the statement of yourself not willing or able to be part of the group who would you be? What consequences would you be allowing within and as yourself? Nothing and no one will force anybody. Not seeing that you would be choosing a system of having to fight for survival over a life of ease and enjoyment together with equals that allow and accept you as themselves would be pure stupidity.
You would be taking the same position as a child stating he has no motivation to wash or feed himself. He hasn’t allowed himself to understand it is necessary to be done as a matter of self-support and also because it is enjoyable! It’s simply a part of ‘taking care of oneself’. Though, to wash and feed yourself, you would actually require water/food that comes out of your tap and garden, respectively. And because you live in a community and you understand that everyone would benefit from having water and a cultivated garden, you understand that it would be far more effective to have one coordinated system of providing these things for everyone, instead of each individually having to sort out their water-issues by themselves and do the cultivation alone. So within the community you come to an agreement as to who will take responsibility for making sure there is food and water. This is basic common sense. It has nothing to do with profit calculations as in the current system, but with looking after oneself in the understanding that ‘what is best for all, is best for me’. The same procedure can be applied to any requirement that would then form a public service.
Thus it is a matter of common sense to support the group as you are thus supporting yourself one and equal.
