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March, 7th, 2009
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Meaningful Work:

The Solution

by Chris Sunami



In order to compete with capitalism, any new socioeconomic system will need to be able to provide meaningful work more effectively than capitalism. Furthermore, the meaningfulness of that work must align with human beings’ actual wants and needs, rather than those predicted by a fantasy vision of human nature such as that held by communism.

One promising approach to that problem is to create a status system that revolves around service to the local community. Pursuit of status has proven throughout human history to be a strong and effective motivator for most people. Furthermore, there is some evidence that communities founded around service ethics have in fact flourished in many different times and places.

The challenge then shifts to finding ways to match the concentrations of power that build up naturally in capitalist societies. In essence, we need a way to divorce power from material wealth, and then concentrate that power in a way that is not vulnerable to the same abuses of power as are rampant in the system we currently possess.

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