A profession is not a job. It is a pursuit that makes life worth living. The thing you do which creates the value, the reason to wake up each morning. My degree is in life learning, surviving multiple traumas through my creativity and human resolve. The power of imagination to rescue oneself from unthinkably harmful encounters. As a professional, what I do, it's being a dad, emotionally supporting / coaching my friends, and teaching / guiding those who seek. Helping people get where they need to go safely or fix what isn't working for them. Preparing soul sustaining food. Loving is creativity. I am a creative. All of these interactions are created with imagination and compassion. That is what makes my life worth living.
Someone posed the question - healthcare is a right, yes, but more importantly shelter, clean safe drinking water, and healthy food is a right--- The basic premise of universal INCOME is, once you remove the necessity to monetize professions, people will then have true freedom to accomplish what matters. To spend their effort on emotional currency rather than to be enslaved to the idea of profitability, which ultimately will benefit the human race by allowing innovators to pursue their dreams, caring individuals to pursue outreach, makers to build their art or tools, etc----- where profitability has been taken out of the equation they will be limited only by their own strength of will and determination to succeed. I feel that capitalism provides a basic model for things but we have the currency wrong. The currency that is real is human emotion. Money is imaginary, made up, and is destroying our human family slowly and surely.
My number 1 enemy is the idea that I have to find a profitable way to pursue social work or teaching. Almost defeats the purpose of these 2 professions. Or parenthood for that matter ----
The fact that we allow homelessness and we do not have a program by which those who have suffered extreme neglect or abuse can escape to a safe place to live that is private and has the solitude necessary for them to begin recovery, absolutely baffles me. I don't know if we can solve these two specific cases without something very much like universal income - a standard by which we effectively through our actions say to all people: you matter, you're wanted and worthwhile, and you deserve the freedom to spend your life engaged in what makes you feel fulfilled.
Only then can we eliminate the perpetually faulty pyramid model for human societies, and convert to a sustainable mesh system where it is extremely similar to the barter system. People offer their professions to one another without having to be reduced down to a dollar value. They can all live and have their basic rights to shelter, good health, safe drinking water, and dignity, without being expected to prove that they are worth these basic human rights. Then trade continues in a capitalistic fashion, where competition still occurs ensuring that the best in any field is available and monopolists cannot thrive, cannot put strangleholds in place that make the quality of products and service plummet for everyone- the situation we literally have now with all the new monopolists- telecom and media, fossil fuel, healthcare, financial industry.
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