why work is soooo important

(Paintings of mine)

Ok as lovely as Drake is I am going to flip the switch and change direction.  I somehow started working at age 15.  I had to get school permission but it also gave me credit for it.  I guess my mom drove me.  I wonder at people all the time as to how do they do so much!!  Now I have time but nothing to do which is the worst case scenario.  People think folks take advantage of welfare (which is not what I am on but follow me here) but these people haven't the foggiest notion what they are doing to themselves if they are indeed taking advantage of the system.  First off let's just look at stats:  90 something percent of folks born poor die poor.  Same is true for middle class and rich folks..  We learn this stuff soooo young that there isn't much chance of changing one's viewpoint.  If you grow up hearing how this is the best way of getting by then it isn't going to change when someone years later points out that this is illogical - even if they agree with you logically as we don't make our decisions based on logic like people think we do - rather our decisions are made by our mammalian brain which is what houses mostly emotions  - they aren't going to understand it based on the cognitive disonance it's going to create in one's head.   Read BEHAVE by Robert Sapolski - he goes over the neurobiology plus it is an excellent source book and highly entertaining as the man is very humorous and he has a great reputation has been around since I was in college 30+ years ago and a relatively easy read for laymen.  

Working doesn't just supply one with money which is almost but not quite tangential (logically anyway communism should work and it's a lovely notion but we haven't seen it be successful largely due to greed).  It supplies you with sooo many rewards the list is too long to tell of them all but let's just start with the fact that working will help you sleep at night because you will be tired.  It provides you with some socialization without which people lose their minds - quite literally.  If one has never earned their way then one doesn't reach any kind of satisfaction that will lead to self-actualization so that one is taking themselves out of the whole purpose of even being here.  So we're talking on every level from the smallest thing (as if sleep is no big deal) to the whole point of life and everything in between.  If you never learned this from having seen it then one may not even be able to understand my last statement even on a logical much less an emotional level.

So when people get angry at the system for either not helping enough - it would be a good thing to require training and placing people in jobs as one receives the money until that time then stop the money and let them either swim or sink because that is going to happen anyway.  Or when people complain the government is providing too much help - the question is not how much money to give out but rather does that in any way help as a good case can be made that it actually hinders folks in life not helps them (teach a man to fish don't give them fish - it's fairly simple actually).

 

Before I became so  bloody ill/disabled I FULLY appreciated being able to cash a paycheck - it feels good - it is highly satisfactory.  I had been able to work and support myself long enough that I got a good taste of that and I miss it so horribly that I have trouble now having gone so long without it knowing the value of a dollar.  Well and learning that one is good at something even without getting paid is itself hugely satisfactory in that it is the basis for self-respect, confidence, ability to learn and grow... I could go on ad neaseum on this.  Bottom line is it is silly to blame these folks as they are a product of their dna plus environment - as much as we think we have free will it IS limited by one's world view in that if you can't see an option it isn't really there.

All of the above might be a bit much to take in at once if you don't immediately understand and agree then come back to this later and re-read it. ( Please??!!!)