Quote (sirthom @ Dec 23 2021 12:39pm)
Agreed, we should be in small 200ish pop communities.
No jobs, no schools.
Everyone living, teaching, growing and making what you need together.
Jobs would be more volontary, people would still work for extra luxury, toys, equipment, technology, hobbies, sports & travel and more important jobs like doctors, firefighters, surgeons, road maintenance (yeah probably some police may be necessary too unfortunately, but far less if everyone had what they needed to live well) as well as specialized jobs within a large variety of things & industries would still be there and keep on keeping on...
But it would be less mandatory to have to have a job to live. One wouldn't have to work an underpayed servant job at McDonald's or walmart if one didn't want to.
... Lot of people would still work, but if someone just wanted to ride skateboards their whole life they could do that, build skateparks in the area, jumps & foam pits and just have a blast all day.
I think people still can do that and find a way for it to work, just doing what they really wanna do, but it's challenging to figure out that by oneself..
Pretty sure development in many ways would accelerate if people could spend their lives doing what they like to do, both sports, technology, architecture, science, games etc... Skillets and developed talents of all sorts would rise through the roof in general, and if education encouraged it.
The school systems now are..uh. Under critique, at least when I went butbifcni doubt they radically changed in a direction I'd would like to have gone through... Some of it pretty great, some of it a complete waste of time. Basic math, read and writing, language, social skills and sports etc are great stuff. But then there is so much that is off and not there to educate and just stalling... large groups fit into a frame that is really not for everyone... Kids not interested are said to have "attention deficit disorders and should be put on medicine" - or hey maybe your education activities blows and don't suit some potentially very talented individuals interests, and would be better off without some classes, and some teachers, how about that!
We got to learn carpentry without basic architecture & construction knowledge, nothing in the first 9 years of how to build a shelter or house, or larger building basics or furniture or wood processing, etc. i liked that there was a more free attitude in that, like build whatever you want, a boomerang or a birds house or whatever, but we only had one hour a week of it. That's nothing.
Got to learn about who they said invented a lightbulb and discovered things about electricity, but without any depth & without basic practical electrician education (not my main language but you get the point). None about welding, iron work, how materials are made etc...
One got to learn about the agriculture revolution but not anything, at least we didn't, of how to grow your own food or having animals like chickens for free eggs. "Monoculture is the way" "find out what you wanna be when you grow up so you can have a job. Taxes is very good for you. The higher taxes, the better the society. - "you have these options, you can be whatever you want, maybe even police, or president one day

" and it just damps ones passions for living life fully and like one want. Eh...
Forests, those are just timber and it's always been like that. No mind the lack of basically any wild fruit trees or variety in large areas of our forests.. *we removed those, they were useless*
Teach about "nature orientation" without survival skills or knowledge of eatable plants..
Teach about the greatness of our democracy and free media... books edited by the same companies that surprise, also owns the media - teaching us about how great they are
Avoiding details in how the banks work, avoiding this and that, conglomerate structures, no need for that info. clear misinformation or lack of practical knowledge about this and that..
one can learn more about (the little we know) of astronomy and space in a week - easily than 9 years. Even the proportions of our little solar system is taught very misleading, and people probably who didn't look further than the school book still thinks the planets if scaled down would fit on a paper like:
☀️ o O 🌎 O ⚽ 🪐 O O •
Evenly spaced out circling around a stationary sun and so forth..
Oh and let's not forget how LUCKY you are, to get to put a note in a box once every four years. It hasn't always been like that - you sir are Lucky to live in such a fine democracy.
This post was edited by TidsL on Dec 23 2021 07:28am