ù Quoting Chuck Bridwell from a message to Ryan Bagueros  ù 
CB> Interesting.
CB> Where would you start in providing the solution?
Well, that's a big question and we could talk about it for hours and hours. 
At 
a fundamental, organizational level, consider if all the labor in the world 
was
not geered towards making profit for the boss, but instead was geared towards 
providing for people. The primary goal was to make sure everyone had enough, 
and was comfortable. Money was no object at all.
First of all, consider how many of the jobs in society would be eliminated. 
Fundraisers, telemarketers, huge bureaucracies, "administrative assistants," 
etc. all would become obsolete, because their job does nothing but provide an 
internal service for a profit-oriented business. Second, consider how jobs 
would change. Think about how often you are at work, and there really is 
nothing to be done, but you *have* to stay until it is time to go home, 
because
those are the "rules" and you need to get paid. Think about how 
professionalism
would be abolished, and you could wear whatever you want, say whatever you 
want. And third, think about how much *less* everyone would have to work. 
Most 
of the stressful, long work created in our society is in the need to make 
profit, to get it done quick and cheap. Easy for the boss, a bitch for the 
worker. 
If you lived in a community, where money was no objection, you didn't spend 
your life slaving away at an oppressive workplace, wouldn't you chip in and 
help out here and there? What if there was a Volunteer Sewer Cleaner group, 
and
you could volunteer four-five days a month to do some work on the sewer? Much 
better than slaving away there all day ever day, under an jerk manager. And a 
Volunteer Grass-cutting Group for the Elderly? Maybe everyday you mow two or 
three lawns for elderly people, and that was all you did. Maybe you do more. 
I 
know I certainly couldn't sit around doing nothing all day. Or maybe you do 
less. 
Again, this is all speculation - but it does wonders when you start to 
rethink 
how a workplace is, and why it is like that. Already, most places of work are 
"run" by the workers there, who make all the everyday decisions on how things 
should work. They don't do it by strict rules, but by working it out with 
each 
other. It is thrown off, though, by the impractical and strangely unfamiliar 
presence of a boss, a hierarchy, rules, and the fact that you need to be 
there 
in order to survive.
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