Another pithy and illuminating statement from Michael: "...[S]ocial credit uses the words "work" and "leisure" in a particular way, namely, "work" is doing whatever you DON'T want to do, and "leisure" is doing whatever you DO want to do; and the belief about human nature that lies behind it is that human beings are naturally creative. The logic of the social credit Age of Leisure is, insteading of compensating people for doing what they DON'T want to do, finance them via the dividend to do what they DO want to do. Then see what still needs doing."
In fairness to the binary economists, I think that something very close to this is also what they have in mind, but they have had great difficulty in saying it clearly--in the post Adler era. More important is the postulate Michael has identified, about human beings being naturally creative. These seems to be a critical element of the philosophy behind the dividend policy, and is one that merits serious exploration in the literature of anthropology. The general attitude characterized by Michael is very similar to that of Thomas More in Utopia, but he was less sanguine in his views of human nature. Keith ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84IaC.bcVIgP.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html ==^================================================================
