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I'm getting more at things like a perspective shift, like represented with ideas at these links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ultimate_Resource

https://www.remineralize.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_from_Yesteryear

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cost+of+militarism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket

https://www.alfiekohn.org/article/case-competition/

https://www.pop.org/overpopulation-myth/

https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/298-june-19-1979/the-ori...

https://archive.org/details/AdvancedAutomationForSpaceMissio...

https://archive.org/details/TheUndergroundHistoryOfAmericanE...

https://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/oscomak/AchievingAStarTrekSoc...

https://pdfernhout.net/basic-income-from-a-millionaires-pers...

https://pdfernhout.net/recognizing-irony-is-a-key-to-transce...

https://web.archive.org/web/20080930065642/http://www.whywor... "I [Bob Black] don't suggest that most work is salvageable in this way. But then most work isn't worth trying to save. Only a small and diminishing fraction of work serves any useful purpose independent of the defense and reproduction of the work-system and its political and legal appendages. Twenty years ago, Paul and Percival Goodman estimated that just five percent of the work then being done -- presumably the figure, if accurate, is lower now -- would satisfy our minimal needs for food, clothing and shelter. Theirs was only an educated guess but the main point is quite clear: directly or indirectly, most work serves the unproductive purposes of commerce or social control. Right off the bat we can liberate tens of millions of salesmen, soldiers, managers, cops, stockbrokers, clergymen, bankers, lawyers, teachers, landlords, security guards, ad-men and everyone who works for them. There is a snowball effect since every time you idle some bigshot you liberate his flunkies and underlings also. Thus the economy implodes."

And so on...




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