Time Is Your Own
We have much in common. most notably our conscience which we routinely ignore. I mean the commonality, not necessarily the utility, which is what conscience is.
A universal utility along with will and various other things we would not be without.
What we do NOT have in common is a sense of time.
Hold on.
Time we know fairly universally as something that unfolds, that moves slowly forward, that is common to us all.
But time is also something that we can or should control. The use of same.
And the world does an abysmal job of enabling that privilege.
There is little as individual to us as our sense of, and desirable use of, time.
That time has value is clear. Just look at corporations and other institutions that pay us by the hour. Or by the month. Good God.
Now I am spoiled because I work on my own clock and I do not get paid. If I wanted to get paid, I would need to click one of these juicy Linkedin job notices and sell my soul to some company store somewhere. If they would go long on age.
In an ideal world we will have ownership of our time.
Shall I repeat it?
Our time will be ours.
We will make our hours.
Now I am writing as a Triadic Philosopher which means simply that I am as conscious as I feel like being and therefore consumed, ordinarily, with things to do. Since I own and control my time, my only barrier, save for deficiencies in talent and judgment, is my endurance. I find I can go from about six in the morning until sometime in the afternoon at a reasonable level of productivity.
Think how a job would screw this up.
I suspect I am not alone in wanting the world to give me my rights in terms of using and controlling time.
The way this can happen is to make work (a job) more a choice than a necessity.
Basic income is sort of like making everyone a child of moderate wealth. The world is moderately wealthy, so why not?
This will enable one to live on the cheap without feeling oppressed. If one wants to earn. be the world’s guest.
In our ideal world there will be heavy incentives to work. There will be means to do so that are fair, not humiliating and sufficiently flexible to enable something like good combining of personal and one social or work time.
Now I know there is movement in such directions. I make no claim to originality.
Originality, like honor, is a scutcheon.
Your time should be your own. Your work should be a choice. Your income should be something you choose to make, above the basic you need to be a starving artist.
We are talking an ideal world here. We couldn’t have one if you did not have some control over time.
Please bear in mind that the new world assumes
cybercommunities
a concept I devoutly hope will grab the global imagination at some point. It hasn’t happened yet.
