Some interesting jabber this time.... likely true except for Genesis Chapter 3 as mentioned in previous response. Here I'll fill you in quickly:
Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’:
“Cursed is the ground for your sake;
In toil you shall eat of it
All the days of your life.
18 Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you,
And you shall eat the herb of the field.
19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread
Till you return to the ground,
For out of it you were taken;
For dust you are,
And to dust you shall return.
In toil you shall eat of it
All the days of your life.
18 Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you,
And you shall eat the herb of the field.
19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread
Till you return to the ground,
For out of it you were taken;
For dust you are,
And to dust you shall return.
So we will never run out of work... its impossible. All that may happen is the type of work we do and the methods of remuneration for such may change. In the west and many other countries once our "boomers" start to return in droves there will most certainly be work for our youth. In fact we may have an abundance of jobs if researchers are correct. In such circumstances it is beneficial for the automation we have developed to be necessary. Even if you think of all the technology we have gained to date compared to just 100 years ago, we are still no less busy. 100 years ago it took a woman a week to do the laundry we now do in an afternoon. How could woman possibly have the time for a full time job if the technology had not improved?
It is encouraging though to think that due to the changes in technology we have our time for such conversations as these. A chance to share the gospel and teach the truth. That through this the Lord may magnify and glorify his holy name.
You bring up a very good point about “time” I had used the word “leisure” but meaning the same sort of thing. Indeed washing machines are a perfect example of what we are talking about. Time is our most valuable resource and what this shows is that more time will be available to us, for a lot of us currently that isn’t happening although if you compare to a 100 years ago we have more now than they had but of course we have far more options with what to do with that time, writing blogs for instance as you point out so I think that saying we are busier is possibly an illusion due to the choices we have and that we are busier because we choose to be. If you had watched the Olympic opening ceremony the IOC president Jacques Rogge mentioned that the games in a way were coming home as the UK being the country that invented modern sport and put rules to them, this is no coincidence it was the direct result of the industrial revolution when the workers had more leisure time.
ReplyDeleteI am not saying work will not be needed what I am saying is that the jobs that “need” doing will become less and less (at least by Humans that is) and your quote from the bible about man working holds quite a truism that we feel the need to, inbuilt into our psyche? (of course there are plenty of lazy people out there but I feel they are very much in the minority, I really couldn’t sit there all the time watching TV day in and day out. Would send me around the bend) Without "working" that way stagnation lays and the end of the Human race itself.
We are very much in a transition stage but for some i.e. the long term unemployed and underemployed (part time working & wage when they want a full time job) time they are not short of.
Change in remuneration? That’s pretty prescient as well, what you are seeing is the death of banking & wealth* as we know it. Much more to follow on that subject :)
*using the term wealth very loosely there as in how much money someone has, it is not my idea of “wealth.”