Just change the rules

I'm not sure where I stand on economy anymore, I seem to have taken an opt out for all human activity at the moment especially since the realisation that it is primarily (at least 50%) to do with status and nothing else. Call me materialistic but in the realm of ideas it doesn't really matter does it? They are just ideas. When we talk of reality we speak only of material reality. So how do the ideas of economics impact on material reality? They don't decide when the sun rises, the seasons, the rain, the growth of plants, the time we have to plant seeds and harvest, to engineering behind buildings, the workforce to build... in fact they don't seem to have anything to do with reality at alll... except that when there is an economic downturn everyone "thinks" the world has changed when really its just a change in mood. And what do they do to prove this? They change the rules of the game. It raises the question then, why do we have the rules we've got? and who gets to chose them? Well we can be sure at least 50% is a feature of maintaining the status of the rule setters. How vapid and pointless.

We talk about employment in the same manner as we talk about economy. If we can have a large percentage of the population out of work in an economic downturn then why do they need to work at other times? We speak of the downturn as though it was abnormal and undesirable? Its just rules of a game, why don't we plan around the features of the "downturn" rather than the features of the "up turn". Now I'm home for a bit I've argued with my mother on this subject. She seems convinced that "unemployment" is bad for you, physically and mentally. I point out to her its just a word. I am far more active mentally and physically than I was in that battery farm of employment. Just look at animals in a farm... that is employment and compare that with their "natural" circumstance. What is the natural circumstance of man? Humans work all the time, it just gets different names depending upon whether the establishment endorses it. Yesterday I baked break, went for a walk and collected blackberries to make jam for the winter, wrote an essay for a friend, read more about the economy and a book on weather, wrote some music, up dated devices on my computer. Compare that with a monotonous day at work doing really very little in reality (since I've noticed "positions" in a company contract to make use of the available work and appear useful - Parkinsons Law - and reading that recently I feel a strong solidarity with Mr Parkinson for I feel we criticise the same thing - that business and employment is about finding people "positions" not about the actual labour they will achieve once there.) Is a "position" in the establishment really worth the atrophy? Yet I realising that a "position" is one of the psychological "needs of man". Between the devil and the deep blue sea we are, am working on a solution to this within myself, after all can't we just change the rules?