What'd people do, Jeremy? They would do what they want, not what "you" or the corporatocracies 'find for them to do'.
"Bill Mollison: Catch the water off your roof. Grow your own food. Make your own energy. It’s insanely easy to do all that. It takes you less time to grow your food than to walk down to the supermarket to buy it. Ask any good organic gardener who mulches how much time he spends on his garden and he’ll say, 'Oh, a few minutes every week.' " Keyword: permaculture
"Did you know that before the Industrial Revolution, the average person worked for about two or three hours a day? Studies from a wide range of pre-industrial civilizations show similar data- it takes only about fifteen hours a week to provide for all of our basic human needs. And that's using hand tools.
So why is the average American working a dreary forty hours a week?"
The ostensible irony that Rifkin may be aware/unaware of, is that power needs to be with people, as opposed to top-down hierarchies/nonsense. Also, business-for-business-sake is nothing- or worse. Like suits & ties, or autocrats on fiat currencies.
Business for what people actually need- vis-a-vis what's good for Earth-- vis-a-vis what's good for our species survival and happiness is what's important. 40-hour workweeks are for industrial slaves. Revolutions for a few elite are not revolutionary.
Rifkin does not appear to understand that increased economic productivity and efficiency has always resulted in the increased value of land and natural resources in the hands of its monopoly "owners" and that this is the root cause of the disparity of wealth on the planet. If he would advocate funding his civil society by taxation of community created land values he would actually make sense and be relevant to the issue how to share the benefits that flow from progress with everyone.
What'd people do, Jeremy? They would do what they want, not what "you" or the corporatocracies 'find for them to do'.
"Bill Mollison: Catch the water off your roof. Grow your own food. Make your own energy. It’s insanely easy to do all that. It takes you less time to grow your food than to walk down to the supermarket to buy it. Ask any good organic gardener who mulches how much time he spends on his garden and he’ll say, 'Oh, a few minutes every week.' " Keyword: permaculture
Work=Taxes=Slavery
Glomerol 1 year ago
"Did you know that before the Industrial Revolution, the average person worked for about two or three hours a day? Studies from a wide range of pre-industrial civilizations show similar data- it takes only about fifteen hours a week to provide for all of our basic human needs. And that's using hand tools.
So why is the average American working a dreary forty hours a week?"
~ The Walden Effect
Corporatocratic feudalism? Wage-slavery? Outsourcing-sweatshops?
...Slavery seems alive and well.
Glomerol 1 year ago
The ostensible irony that Rifkin may be aware/unaware of, is that power needs to be with people, as opposed to top-down hierarchies/nonsense. Also, business-for-business-sake is nothing- or worse. Like suits & ties, or autocrats on fiat currencies.
Business for what people actually need- vis-a-vis what's good for Earth-- vis-a-vis what's good for our species survival and happiness is what's important. 40-hour workweeks are for industrial slaves. Revolutions for a few elite are not revolutionary.
Glomerol 1 year ago
That maybe his main downfall.
CosmosPrivateer 3 years ago
peace, if there is anyway i can help please let me know. I live in ny and my fiance is from hellas. amar
SIRNUTSO 3 years ago
Rifkin does not appear to understand that increased economic productivity and efficiency has always resulted in the increased value of land and natural resources in the hands of its monopoly "owners" and that this is the root cause of the disparity of wealth on the planet. If he would advocate funding his civil society by taxation of community created land values he would actually make sense and be relevant to the issue how to share the benefits that flow from progress with everyone.
ourearthhome 3 years ago