It is time to write about 'work'. In this essay 'work' is the activity done for someone else in return for pay. There may be other work but it seems 'choice work' - housework, car-cleaning, gardening, parenting. One chooses to have - or not to have - a family, a home, a car, a garden, and one chooses how one lives with these choices. The future will see fewer and smaller families, smaller homes, smaller gardens and fewer cars, so 'choice work' will decline and change.
The 'paid work' is both our time and our effort for which we recieve 'compensation'. This time and effort provides a benefit to someone else. If we enjoy spending our time and providing the effort, the compensation can be adjusted - but not necessarily.
'Work' is an invention which, on the whole, allowed others to benefit from our time and effort. They got their land tilled, their family looked after and their food prepared. Later this 'labour' grew into farming, then commerce/transport and then industry, now IT, politics, marketing & media are new specialisms - and work in the non-profit/public sector of course has grown, too.
It has been evident for some time that those demanding work seem to do it in order to gain money to spend on diverse things. This is not the obvious statement it seems. Surely those in the right of politics create work for others, and those on the left demand work for themselves? How simple is this?
In work - labour - supply and demand are about to become severely disrupted. People are beginning to value their time - creating healthy, loving, fun and inspirational lives. The need for 'work' by the individual is becomeing less. Yet the demand for labour expands(overall), and the demand for 'own time' increases, too.
Was the Labour Party created by the Conservatives?
Who needed workers who in an ideal world demanded and fought for work? Answers please....
