why_do_people_work_so_hard backflip why don't they play more ? they could go on strike like me ! paint the town Red maybe ? that's REAL work ! 070608 ... tyler to buy shit they don't need. 070609 ... did please. who doesn't need shit (and work). we would have to face about ourselves without it. 070609 ... A FUCKED UP WORLD WHAT DO YOU NEED? if there was one phone company, one net company, one electric company, one of most things, we wouldn't have to waste out time on marketing, advertising and sales. so then we have more people to work in Africa, we need peole not just money. how many offices will you need then? how many filing cabinets? how many more buildings? you can take your money and show a dieng person how greedy you are, what you gunna do about it? cry?, feel sorry for them? you think it is wrong not having competion? Well you won't when you have a choise of a better more enjoyable or meaningful job. It would NOT be a dictatorship it would just prevent you from getting confused at the supermarket. HOW MUCH SHIT DO YOU NEED? The word communision has so many taboos around it that is because the idea was that was never developed and changed in certain places, it wasn't tried and tested on a world wide basis either; it would only work as a oneness. It wouldn't work when you have greedy people and fences but it would work if any one had any passion or love their hearts. Apparently people work for somthing called money, if i've got what i really need, which is a few simple things- i would work for enjoyment and share what extra i have with my neighbour. but they prefer to be "intellegent" and make everything extemely complicated, they prefer to do extra work and chase their own tail. where has it got them? WHAT DO YOU NEED? 070610 ... phil labor 070610 ... :-D introduce it up your Jacksie ! 070610 ... The answer: because they have mistaken themselves for beavers. 070610 ... Strideo Because they aren't lazy. ... 070611 ... sad most people work with blindfolds on, most people don't think twice, most people don't care about anyone but themselves, most people want to control, most people want to be the best, most people fight to get what they think they want, most people are inconciderate, most people believe what is written in the newspaper, most people don't apprieciate a flower. most people forget what they need, most people treat each other how they don't want to be treated themselves, most people want things to change but they don't realise that it won't change unless they start treating each other with respect and love, no matter what they look like or what 'religion' they follow, or what their capabilities are. i am lazy because i don't want to be a part of any of that, i don't want to live in hell and i don't want to have to run away again but it might be the only answer, i can't stand the pain of this world anymore. (lazy, lazy to give a damn about people that aren't helped to get food on their palate despite any other difficulties) 070611 ... ANGRY oh! dough doesn't suit your palate ! have some fucking bread then and take an effing apple of the tree. people are fucking stupid. 070611 ... Lemon_Soda The problem here, as is the problem with most people, is they can't get over themselves. As soon as I can except that its really not about me I think I would be happier. So would all of you. 070611 ... kuffsleeve it's only about ONE - where's your confusion ? (i am you, you are me) You are lonely because people separate themselves thinking they are one entity, they are not, they are part of one big miracle called life, why don't people be nice to each other then? 070611 ... ivyducktwilightseto It's capitalism baby. People want to do what they want to do. If you can earn money from your way of life it is reason enough to start a business out of it. And if there's three other guys that want to make a way of life out of the same thing, then it is also their right. Inevitably, the four of you will be in some sort of competition for money, usually from customers. There you go. If we eliminated all companies and advertising, etc. in the country, there would simply not be enough jobs and money to go around. The very cores of our society, television and the internet would probably cease to exist because they are run off of advertising profits. It would be nice to return to an esoteric age, but it is an impossible reality with the state the world is in. Solving problems in Africa and elsewhere has little to do with our materialism, save for the fact that our greed blinds us. People need to realize what evils the big businesses and the big governments of the world are committing. For instance, China. Fuck China. Little known fact, but their government is getting cheap oil imports from Sudan, a country with a government that is currently funding genocide against its own people. SO back to the originial blathe, people work hard because they want to make something out of themselves. Yes we all bow down to the almighty dollar, but it is the system that we have laid out for ourselves since the beginning. So go to work, earn money, get an education and a better job, more money, and with your new skills and wealth, help people. Help the ones you love. Help the suffering. Just do something. Yeah, materialism.... fuck that shit too. 070611 ... mailer daemon because they need to 070611 ... gja I dont want to make any thing of myself. I just want to avoid the demons that start sniffing about when im idle. 081115 ... dafremen Conditioning breeds tradition breeds more conditioning. And now we're so neck-deep in it that getting out isn't an option. Or is it? 081115 ... Lemon_Soda I think it is. 081115 ... zzz33333 surely not with that attitude 081115 ... dafremen Why not? (And don't call me surely..) : ) 081115 ... minnesota_chris life gets pretty easy when you make a complete list of the things you don't need, and just go around saying no to things all day. For me, that includes car insurance. 081116 what's it to you? who go blather from