What do we spend the money on, once nobody works?

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We're already at the point where the most vitally-important positions pay much less than fake jobs, so people are quitting them. Now, the fake job people have lots of money, but struggle to purchase essential goods and services.

I don't disagree but do you have a real example of someone with lots of money struggling to purchase essential goods and services?

Yes, of course. Just try to build a house in southern Germany. Or rent one.

We've gone from "we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us" to "we refuse to work and they pay us, anyway".

Invest it to gain more money.

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It's funny how everyone is like "Where experienced Nostr Devs?"

Well, where _any_ experienced devs?

Where sewer cleaner or plumber?

Where electrician?

Where souschef?

Where industrial mechanic?

The majority of the population is paid to work part-time or is on permanent vacation or learned "something studies" and can't figure out how to boil water.

Who is John Galt?

Shout out to all the industrial mechanics on nostr.

Caskets

Makes sense.

Imagine the consumer price inflation. The same amount of money chasing fewer and fewer goods.

Like buying toilet paper before a lockdown. 😂

Subscriptions

Meme coins, is another possibility.

Games of Texas hold em

I read a book called welcome to the game where everyone just lived in welfare camps and kind just wondered around & lived in poverty as ai & machines did most manual labour jobs.

Yeah. I can see that.

Building castles like the Old World did. Build sculpturess. Plant trees and plants flowers grow food.

Who builds the castles, if nobody works? Who makes the sculptures, if nobody works? Who plants the gardens, if nobody works?

This whole dystopia is predicated upon the idea that those things are not work.

OK, you work with computers because you love to work with computers, right? So?

I'll do the sculptures because I love to sculpture right. I'm not going to go plant the plants because I don't like to do that. I'm going to consider that work. Haha trust me, nobody wants to be in the office Pushing papers for another human being, they'd rather be in the garden. They'd rather be in the forest. They'd rather be in their yard, building a structure in the backyard. Nobody wants to be in the office building pushing papers.

It doesn't make sense for everyone to do the same types of work.

Different people should do different work and then use money to exchange their own efforts for the efforts of others. That's what money is for: storing up the time and energy expended during work, so that it can be traded.

As soon as you specialize and do the same thing over and over, it becomes work, because you will become so efficient that other people will pay you for it, rather than doing it themselves.

I like to work with computers and would fiddle around with them, as a hobby. I could not ever become efficient with it, if I were also planting a garden. But, if I am not planting a garden, WHAT DO I EAT? I have to eat the produce from someone else's garden. Which means someone else has to produce a surplus of produce. At that point, we are both working.

To bad life is unaffordable to live like this because im all for it.

GM! That will never happen

Of course. The purchasing power of the money will just sink down enough, that people are motivated to work again.

I think it's human nature. We will never stop to find things to work on

But only a subset of people has an intrinsic, persistent urge to labor. As we can see.

Once this nihilistic socialist phase passes, not anymore