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Nonsense At Work

BY James McIntosh | 04-29-2010 | 6:21 AM

This blog is written by a member of our blogging community and expresses that member's views alone.

The business of business is busy-ness:

What exactly is the business of business? After all these job losses, I hope you see it as clearly as I do. The real business of business is to keep people busy and off the streets.

Ever since people left the farm for the city, keeping people busy is an ongoing headache for governments. Farming is busy work – it never stops. And yet, with all the mechanization and productivity gains, fewer people are needed to keep the farm going. For the same reasons fewer workers are needed to keep the population fed, clothed and housed.

Our system has created a lot of bored people, a socially dangerous situation. How then does one create busy-ness in the towns and cities? You create ‘wants’.

Capitalism today is not based on what we need, but on what business can convince us that we should need, i.e., want. And so businesses have become nothing more than adult-sitters.

I’m James McIntosh at nonsenseatwork.com

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