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Reinventing the World: Work and Time
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What is work? Why is it important? What's changed about work in our globalized, corporatized world? Why are we either overworked, under-worked or out of work? Why don't we have enough time for the things we say are most important in our lives? What are we 'saving time' for anyway?
This program examines work and time as intertwined problems in our fast-forward lives and why it's become increasingly harder to find balance.
Jeremy Rifkin, Matthew Fox, Paul Hawken, Barbara Moses, Sally Lerner, Stewart Brand, and 'El Vez', the Mexican Elvis impersonator, are some of the people who offer ideas on what work and time mean and how we can get to a more equitable place in our lives.
'Begins by examining the social practices and public policies that have lead to a rapid-paced, technology dependent, time-consuming business world that breeds discontent and frustration. It then goes on to discuss possible solutions and alternative lifestyles...An honest and revealing examination of the nature of employment in our society.' Alternatives Journal
'Emphasizing the need to balance the demands of work and still make time for meaningful activities, the program also looks at the differences between a job and a career, suggests ways to avoid the squirrel in a cage syndrome, and encourages viewers to examine societal values toward work...Highly recommended.' ***1/2 Video Librarian
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Main credits
Springbett, David (film director)
Springbett, David (film producer)
MacAndrew, Heather (screenwriter)
Kennedy, Des (narrator)
Kennedy, Des (screenwriter)
Other credits
Editors, Jack Morbin, Gord More; photography, Gord More - Quadra Productions; original music, Tobin Stokes.
Distributor subjects
American Studies; Business Practices; Community; Consumerism; Health; Lifestyles; Local Economies; Psychology; Recreation; Social Psychology; Voluntary SimplicityKeywords
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Multiple
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machines
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Job.
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Work work job.
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Lead. So work isn\'t that get up
brush your teeth Rabbi What did
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your time drink your liquids blade
the parts that get you what you
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want look for love find love keep love.
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All work is myth.
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Maybe jobs which duper money maybe work
what do you do for everything else
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to do but do job is
something that you have to
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do You know you you took to make
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money and work is something
that you love to do.
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That\'s how I see it yeah
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Simply as human nature to work for personal
fulfillment and of course for daily bread.
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Anyone who\'s had a bad work
experience will tell you the
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tremendous battering their
self-esteem toke so we know work is
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very important it\'s a primary
source of engagement it\'s
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a primary source of giving people
feelings of competence and mastery
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I think the two most important
question we can ask about work or
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this first about where is
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the joy in your work and how does our
work contribute to the jury of others
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We\'re always reading about work and
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everybody else\'s concepts about what
that is in the negative part of it and
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the positive part of it and they needed
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to react to that as well and
so when I brought in the hole.
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I want to do a show about
work they cheered it was
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yes we wanna say things about
work too about because by
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by doing that they are telling you about who
they are and I think that that human beings.
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Have a great need to tell each
other about who they are and
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work in my mind is who you are
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Hi I\'m Dez Kennedy.
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When somebody asks me and
what do you do I reply
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Well I usually write in the morning
and garden in the afternoon.
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I\'ve done all kinds of crazy
jobs in my time but for
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the past 30 years I\'ve been here on
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Denmark Ireland VC numbered
among the growing army of the
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self-employed What I do to
make a living is fairly
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unusual but really what is usual
about work these days there\'s
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a radical transformation happening in the
nature of work at change as profound as
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the Industrial Revolution and unbelievably
it\'s happening in less than a lifetime.
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We\'ve got more and more people who are
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overworked or under-worked
are out of work completely.
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We\'ve got working people whose lives are so
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stretched they have no time for
anything except keeping up with
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the job and we\'ve got the recently or
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chronically out of work who have
nothing but time on their hands.
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How did it get to be this way
that\'s what this program is about
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The nature of work the difference
between your life work and
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your job do we have
enough time for either of
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them why is working harder
not working you know.
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So many people that I know
in the service industries
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which is always given
as kind of the panacea
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for change in resource communities
as service and tourism.
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They can\'t get more than you
know 20 to 24 hours a week and
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oftentimes there\'ll be minimum wage
with very very few benefits and then
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what\'s happening and I mean
I see this so often in in
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restaurants and all over the
place is people have to put
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together 23 jobs Many people today are
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one paycheck away from being homeless I
see a lot of people who are going to
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be one paycheck away from
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disaster as they go from job to job
or cobble together a living you know
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temperature temp two temp
work what seems to be
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happening is there\'s a combination
of what is called globalization
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and is very imperfectly
understood but let\'s just call it
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opening up borders to
both materials and people
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And with that is technological change
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which is automating many jobs and meaning
that much work does not need to be
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done by human beings but can be done much
much more cheaply in the long run and with
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less human input by smart
machines and I would
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never suggest that the new world
is not full of fabulous jobs
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for many people but I think we
forget how many of the jobs
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in the new economy are not good jobs
how many of them are mindless jobs.
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How many of them in fact.
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Instead of empowering people
So we\'re often told they do.
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Simply in fact.
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Take power away from them.
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There\'s tremendous age discrimination
today even though you know on
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the one hand organizations are
crying the talent blues we don\'t
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have enough people there\'s intense competition
supposedly for talented there tell
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that to a 50 something who\'s
been looking for work for
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four years and they\'ll say I
don\'t believe that for 1 second.
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I\'ve gone. I\'ve I\'ve turned
myself inside out I\'ve taken
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every course I can possibly take
I bet his computer literate as
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any 22-year-old and I
can\'t find work this is
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an unsustainable situation That you
can\'t keep pretending that it\'s
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the fault of those workers that they have
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no job you can\'t expect 48
year-old people with no training.
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Except on a on a production
line to suddenly become you
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know day traders or worker catering
chefs or something like that
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it\'s just not going to happen and so I feel
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a really a moral point of
view that this is simply not
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acceptable to pretend that these
people somehow are at fault.
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The attitudes somehow that that we can
remove The safety net insist that people
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be self-reliant and still create
the kind of disposable workforce
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that\'s that\'s needed in the
in the kind of economy
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that that is the global economy it\'s
not going to work in the long run.
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Because the next time there\'s a
recession and it\'s going to be brutal.
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Those of us lucky enough to be
employed spend a huge amount of
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our time working but why
do we work besides putting
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bread on the table I mean
Plainly work gives us more than
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just an income it\'s a way of
structuring our lives a way of saying
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to ourselves and to others this
is who I am this is what I
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do this is where I belong in the world
how I contribute to the human community.
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Our work lets us say this
is why I\'m worthwhile
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and my life is worth living
you know our species needs
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work it needs work because work is
the way we give our gratitude and
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our blessing back to the community
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and when humans do not have
work when we\'re unemployed.
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All kinds of despair And self
hatred and violence sets
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here and we will know that
you can see the statistics.
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What we\'re doing of course is that
we\'re telling 18-year-old men and
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women the 1 billion people
that in the world that are
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either unemployed employed means
they have jobs that are so
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trivial and marginal they cannot
support themselves or their family
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or retelling them as we\'ve created
an economic system that\'s so
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ingenious so brilliantly
designed that they have no value
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and then we\'re surprised when
they hear it and they act
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out as this value they
become pregnant they get in
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gangs they start to sell drugs you know
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business essentially And we still
don\'t understand them then they
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become criminals they get involved they
get arrested we say oh now we know who
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you are you\'re not a teenager you\'re not a
young person you\'re actually a criminal.
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We have a place for you
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a healthier approach would be to ensure
that young people no matter where they are.
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Have a good place to live and rewarding
work to do this to Sao Paulo Brazil.
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It\'s difficult. Very difficult to recognize
as citizens needs street kids who
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are usually regarded as nobody When on the
streets and these kids are completely ignored.
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They are not regarded
as people with rights.
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He stomach kid just on h but
we are here to help them.
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Our main concern is first of all to make
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these rights that already
exist in law accessible to
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them they don\'t know how to
access these rights since
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the doors are closed to children who were
never cared for who don\'t have work.
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Who never went to school who never
had their parent\'s attention.
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Who never had anything Ricardo Is
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a street educator for project Travis E a
this is a unique partnership involving
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Canada\'s United Way and
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the Canadian International Development
Agency Brazil labour unionists and bankers.
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Its goal to help street children become
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active educated working members
of society the Portuguese word
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Travis psia means building
a bridge in this case
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a bridge between homeless kids and
the society from which they\'ve been
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excluded In our case it
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was a necessity for not
just a wish and it is
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an extremely uncomfortable
situation not only
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for those who are downtown every
day and you see these kids.
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See their eyes violence
the aggression robberies.
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All these things is to
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use good D. This life-threatening
situation in Brazil today is very
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embarrassing for the affluent people DG
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and it is a permanent or for the
victims themselves the street kids.
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So the question of self-esteem.
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Of human respect these are
things we cannot remain passive
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about We can\'t expect the government to
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take action or for the schools
and the police to solve.
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Where you add some Sarkozy
the lands that were once
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the kids have found a good place to
live either back with their families
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or in foster homes they graduate
to traverse ce is second stage.
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He sell it opens a new world
to them of education art.
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Culture and sports.
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Preparing them to find their place in the
real world of school and employment.
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Where they can feel like
valued citizens Rights and
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responsibilities as a key
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and I said look either associate with a
peaceful means that it is far to hexadecimal.
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You don\'t saw the fact that
these kids are no longer
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a permanent spread on the streets but
that they now have a name but I think
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you saw I had become
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painters workers and that they live with
their parents and siblings that they have
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seen money RPC and that they are
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producing our work that they have
played ball with children from the USA.
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Who came here through an exchange All that
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changed them into people and
made them feel equal to children
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of bankers and judges are very
Boyd revolution GMR is right.
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It\'s a revolutionary life change to go
from feeling worthless to feeling valued.
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From that crucial change you can with
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a little help began to create
a life with meaning and
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purpose Similar
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challenges exist
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in North American cities.
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Food chair is a Toronto based
organization working with
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food distribution it has created dozens of
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meaningful jobs especially
for people who\'d come to
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believe they were
unemployable meet Joey Eddie.
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I started out as squeegee
kid and then I went to
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this drop in center where they told
me to come in and apply for this job
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here and well for the first two
weeks I was like yeah right
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whenever I apply for a job
that I came in and applied for
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it and you got the job right
away and I went to the focus on
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Food Program And then I had enough
credentials to be rehired as
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a youth leader for the next
group that came in and
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then that went on pretty good and
then a couple more students were
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hired back from that group and
then I was continued hired
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on for youth leader again and
now we have this one program.
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Now I\'m pretty well running the warehouse.
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We\'ve become very successful
with these programs getting
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the pre-employment scale is showing up
on time knowing how to dress how to
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cooperate work as a team and It
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happened that the squeegee diversion
program was looking for a workplace.
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So this time we\'ve taken on 20 years
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and you can see their growth like they find
a place they get a health card a dental
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card they start getting
excited about work and
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I think it\'s the work is so
meaningful here that they take
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real pride in their work just like
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the environment and the idea behind it
to is feeding the homeless and putting
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back to the community but
what\'s community needs I think
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one of the most interesting funny stories
is that joined my can start live
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together and About two months
ago they went out and bought
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a freezer and it does
seem like overkill yes
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they would be thinking
about food in that way and
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stockpiling food and having
food and being interested in
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food and they never
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got to bind myself anything they
would like to have anything.
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Everything you need it was in a kit bag so
you can travel from province to province.
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Now I\'m starting to accumulate something.
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My boss now is she skated helped me get
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my license and so I can get occur
and save it up now for a car.
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So you get car insurance and stuff My parents
and show them that I\'m not such a failure.
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Failure and stuff like that is
pretty good things are looking
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up you know today we have 900 million people
underemployed or unemployed on this planet.
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That\'s the best of the industrial
revolution could do do we think
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the Information Age revolution which is going
to elite workforces is gonna do better.
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So we\'ve got to find a way to
rethink the social contract and
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rethink the nature of work and we
have to ask the question is there
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life beyond the marketplace
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if you\'re unemployed and you\'re not needed
in the market or government why not
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partner The non-profit
organizations in the community and
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local government to retrain and re-skill
you for a potential job and one of
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the thousands and not-for-profit
organizations they require
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paid at work as well as volunteer
work the city the province
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the government ought to be willing
to pay an income voucher that
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non-profit organization to pay a decent
social way so that man or woman who is
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not needed in the marketplace or government
but need in the community can have an income
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to create social capital the wellspring
of our society the social glue.
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It\'s gonna. It\'s gonna mean
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taxes but what I say to people is
you\'re going to be taxed one way or the
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other you\'re either going to be
taxed for a fortress society or for
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the renewal a community you\'ll
won\'t escape it You\'ll need to be
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taxed for police and prisons or be taxed to
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provide jobs so people can have
meaningful work in their communities.
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There\'s a there\'s a sort
of trade-off here which is
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okay you want and indeed you are
having a flexible workforce.
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Then the give back has to be that we
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get something to put underneath
all of these flexible people.
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So they have something to
rely on and something to
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build secure life on and
that\'s why I think this is now
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the time for the basic
income Basic income or
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guaranteed annual income is an idea that\'s
been booted around a lot in recent times it\'s
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controversial because it
smacks of handouts freeloaders
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getting something for nothing
in reality this is how it would
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work every month everyone rich or poor
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employed or not would receive a lump
sum payment from the government.
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No strings attached and the
same amount for everyone
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this basic income would not be taxed
but any additional income would be.
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Only the most frugal of characters could
live on guaranteed annual income but
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it would be part of a larger social
safety net of affordable housing and
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public health care Most
importantly it would
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erase the stigma of welfare our
tendency to blame the poor for
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their poverty and in today\'s
volatile workplace with
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so many people one paycheck
or one contract away
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from financial disaster
it would give a bedrock.
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Upon which everyone could feel
secure it took Canada a long time
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to get away from
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from the notion that
somehow if you were poor.
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You know because she came from a
bad family or it was because she
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didn\'t work harden for
because You didn\'t deserve
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not to be poor and in a way that\'s what all
of our social programs so that we have
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been so proud of until recently were all
about that that this isn\'t the way it
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ought to be I mean that people are not usually
the authors of their own misfortunes.
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Don\'t buy this picture
of people as being sort
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of lazy in degenerate and
they have to be whipped along
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in order to get up in the
morning and we instead
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buy into what we think we know
about our own kids and ourselves
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which is That we\'re not
like that most people are
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not they really want to be
useful they want to be part of
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society you wonder if if
if if basic income is
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a utopian ideal or or is there
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a pragmatic basis to it and would we
ever see it quotes in our lifetime.
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I think there\'s a very pragmatic
basis to it I\'ll take that
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first among other things it will it will
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allow consumer demand to
continue to exist and
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as I understand our economic system without
consumer demand we\'re we\'re up the creek
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What we forget is this
that you have to have
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a viable community before you can have a
viable marketplace it\'s not the other way
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around we always establish community
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first social capital first and then we can
have exchange in representative government.
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So the strength of a civil society is the
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wellspring the foundation for the strength
of the marketplace and government.
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Okay yeah what time let me just check.
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Yeah yeah that\'s okay I can squeeze
it in them find thanks bye-bye.
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And there they are the days weeks months
laid out as they\'ve been for centuries.
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So how come all of a sudden
there aren\'t enough hours in
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the day Why are we always running
out of time we\'re going crazy
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trying to save time but save it for what were
our parents this frantic our grandparents.
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Has time itself changed or is it us and
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the demands of our work may Burroughs
who works at a home office which you
00:24:03.439 --> 00:24:07.549
think would make life easier but how
she describes her date still has
00:24:07.550 --> 00:24:10.518
a familiar ring on the phone at
00:24:10.519 --> 00:24:14.029
six o\'clock in the morning I get up
at 530 AM on the phone it\'s six.
00:24:14.030 --> 00:24:18.109
I\'ve already put in you know
23 you know two hours work
00:24:18.110 --> 00:24:22.969
before Joshua gets up and then we make
his lunch and get him ready for school
00:24:22.970 --> 00:24:28.548
and he\'s off in then I carry on working
And the thing about technology and
00:24:28.549 --> 00:24:31.549
technology at home is that
it is not that it makes
00:24:31.550 --> 00:24:35.749
your work easier it extends
your workday enormously.
00:24:35.750 --> 00:24:38.958
So I\'m I\'m doing email
and he my best time for
00:24:38.959 --> 00:24:41.958
doing email somewhere around
midnight consequences don\'t get
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enough sleep I think the impact on individuals
is horrible in terms of the amount of
00:24:48.409 --> 00:24:51.679
stress one might well ask how can one have
00:24:51.680 --> 00:24:56.104
a life worth living well one is so
busy doing acting and achieving.
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Even in terms of actual
productivity can you really work
00:24:59.899 --> 00:25:03.918
in a creative thoughtful way
when all you\'re doing is acting.
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I wonder if it\'s not partly you know
this this this kind of sense of
00:25:08.225 --> 00:25:13.608
no Of the other limitless horizon
that you actually can do so
00:25:13.609 --> 00:25:16.789
much I mean I think our generation
grew up thinking that anything
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was possible and I really
think it\'s just a mindset
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that I was trained in so
some people are involved
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in in that is just not saying
no we\'re just habitually don\'t
00:25:28.609 --> 00:25:32.058
know how to say no to things people
have figured out his cool way to
00:25:32.059 --> 00:25:35.688
live longer which is to
live faster and even if
00:25:35.689 --> 00:25:38.928
you lived to the same
75-year-old you might have
00:25:38.929 --> 00:25:43.593
expected you can cram in a
150 years of charging around
00:25:43.594 --> 00:25:47.149
and that\'s actually I think pretty
attractive if if people hated
00:25:47.150 --> 00:25:51.634
this haste so much there would
be more people saying Oh
00:25:51.635 --> 00:25:54.708
Yeah when you ask someone how
are how are you what did
00:25:54.709 --> 00:25:57.559
they say they say off
just crazy around here
00:25:57.560 --> 00:26:00.349
I\'m so busy and really their boasting
00:26:00.350 --> 00:26:03.228
to you they\'re saying look at
me look how important I am I
00:26:03.229 --> 00:26:07.984
must be important because I\'m
so incredibly busy and so it\'s
00:26:07.985 --> 00:26:14.328
masked as a complaint but really it\'s a way
of asserting their value and self worth.
00:26:14.329 --> 00:26:18.033
I think we have become addicted to
00:26:18.034 --> 00:26:22.009
busy-ness do-ing act-ing achieving
it makes us feel alive it
00:26:22.010 --> 00:26:24.179
makes us feel wanted
00:26:27.160 --> 00:26:31.818
the idea of building a big slow clock
on which you can see just right on
00:26:31.819 --> 00:26:39.819
the face of it these Out in front of us owe
their own year-by-year implacable pace is
00:26:41.889 --> 00:26:45.338
meant to be some kind of a perspective on
00:26:45.339 --> 00:26:49.778
the acceleration of history and
technology and time so we can step
00:26:49.779 --> 00:26:52.899
outside the acceleration
sir take a breather and
00:26:52.900 --> 00:26:56.259
then looked back on fast-moving events with
00:26:56.260 --> 00:26:59.840
perhaps a longer deeper perspective
00:27:01.320 --> 00:27:06.129
the Clock of the Long Now is a
mechanical clock will tick.
00:27:06.130 --> 00:27:10.298
Once a year the century hand
will advance once every
00:27:10.299 --> 00:27:14.439
100 years and the chime or
ring every millennium for
00:27:14.440 --> 00:27:17.778
the next 10 thousand years Stewart brand of
00:27:17.779 --> 00:27:23.118
Whole Earth Catalog fame was intrigued
by the idea of a slow clock.
00:27:23.119 --> 00:27:26.659
Ever the Provocateur he wondered
if it might be a way to
00:27:26.660 --> 00:27:30.529
prod people into stopping
and stepping back long
00:27:30.530 --> 00:27:34.488
enough to think about what
kind of a world we want to
00:27:34.489 --> 00:27:40.129
create for those coming after us
this long-term responsibility is
00:27:40.130 --> 00:27:42.979
measured in centuries rather than in
00:27:42.980 --> 00:27:46.399
quarterly earnings after
all if each of us had
00:27:46.400 --> 00:27:50.524
one child and one grandchild that\'s them
that\'s the occupants of the next century.
00:27:50.525 --> 00:27:54.273
What do we owe them I\'m probably
owe them a fair amount and
00:27:54.274 --> 00:27:58.038
good responsible parents and grandparents
would have in mind a number of
00:27:58.039 --> 00:28:00.649
things that one would call responsibility
00:28:00.650 --> 00:28:03.829
has to do with preserving
options for them so that
00:28:03.830 --> 00:28:10.938
they\'re not left without a ozone layer
or relatively tractable climate.
00:28:10.939 --> 00:28:14.509
So they have aquifers and fisheries
and things like that those
00:28:14.510 --> 00:28:18.228
are pretty obvious but
then other things you
00:28:18.229 --> 00:28:21.048
probably want to spend some time thinking
about what do you want to be sure
00:28:21.049 --> 00:28:25.068
that those children and
grandchildren twice as
00:28:25.069 --> 00:28:31.698
many of them as a bus would want the sites
that or would regret greatly if we\'d
00:28:31.699 --> 00:28:38.784
somehow squandered It\'s a responsibility for
the greatest good for the greatest number.
00:28:38.785 --> 00:28:42.098
Actually has this time
component it was early on in
00:28:42.099 --> 00:28:46.029
my design career that I realized how
much of what industrial designers were
00:28:46.030 --> 00:28:49.659
doing was was making another at
something that\'s already been
00:28:49.660 --> 00:28:53.438
made just fine for the sake of market-share
00:28:53.439 --> 00:28:57.729
or something like that and I didn\'t
like I didn\'t like that idea I
00:28:57.730 --> 00:29:03.098
also I didn\'t like that as
doing CD Rom development that
00:29:03.099 --> 00:29:05.319
basically you know what I was doing
00:29:05.320 --> 00:29:08.378
was going to be on the shelf and then
off the shelf and then it would be
00:29:08.379 --> 00:29:11.843
a coaster in about three weeks
00:29:11.844 --> 00:29:14.528
when I heard about this
project I realized that it
00:29:14.529 --> 00:29:16.678
was it was all about building one object
00:29:16.679 --> 00:29:21.618
And not building it faster cheaper but
which is the event of the bathtub
00:29:21.619 --> 00:29:24.048
all of all industrial design
and production design
00:29:24.049 --> 00:29:27.304
now but building a kind
of slower and better.
00:29:27.305 --> 00:29:32.239
The Long Now Foundation is
acquired part of a mountain in
00:29:32.240 --> 00:29:38.613
Eastern Nevada in on top of this mountain
is a forest of bristlecone pine trees.
00:29:38.614 --> 00:29:42.349
Some of them are up to 5
thousand years old and
00:29:42.350 --> 00:29:47.373
the real estate guy and whitepine County
Nevada who made this deal happen.
00:29:47.374 --> 00:29:51.259
Has a practice that he has everybody
do up on top of the mountain
00:29:51.260 --> 00:29:55.024
when we visit there and he
says just take five minutes.
00:29:55.025 --> 00:29:58.084
Go sit under a bristlecone pine Tree.
00:29:58.085 --> 00:30:01.188
These are big things are 20-30
feet high and all gnarled and
00:30:01.189 --> 00:30:05.359
sculptural and beautiful
and forget the present.
00:30:05.360 --> 00:30:07.173
Thinking about the past.
00:30:07.174 --> 00:30:11.628
Thinking about the future tuple awhile
wondering when you\'re done with that combine
00:30:11.629 --> 00:30:19.629
back everybody
00:30:21.290 --> 00:30:23.089
has incredible experiences
00:30:23.090 --> 00:30:25.579
and we\'re talking about five minutes.
00:30:25.580 --> 00:30:29.779
Big old tree. So it does suggest there is
00:30:29.780 --> 00:30:34.579
an appetite for getting out of the
present getting into the long-term.
00:30:34.580 --> 00:30:42.439
In maybe we just haven\'t found enough
of the Really intriguing ways to do
00:30:42.440 --> 00:30:46.158
that yet and perhaps the Long Now
Foundation is about helping people find
00:30:46.159 --> 00:30:51.479
intriguing ways to get out of the President
get into the long-term Just take a break.
00:30:53.350 --> 00:30:58.218
Times become the most precious
commodity and our fast-forward lives.
00:30:58.219 --> 00:31:00.889
Perhaps the most disturbing
contradiction in the way
00:31:00.890 --> 00:31:03.559
many of us live is that we lack the time to
00:31:03.560 --> 00:31:06.079
do the things we claim are
the most important to
00:31:06.080 --> 00:31:09.034
us we\'re racing so fast
to achieve fulfillment.
00:31:09.035 --> 00:31:13.099
We have no time left for the
things that fulfill us most but
00:31:13.100 --> 00:31:17.149
what meaning does life have
if we don\'t have time to
00:31:17.150 --> 00:31:25.150
be who we want to be Juliet\'s shore is a
contemporary economist teaches at Harvard.
00:31:26.449 --> 00:31:29.223
Who\'s written a good book
called The overworked American
00:31:29.224 --> 00:31:32.703
and in it she says that we are
like stuck in of squirrel cage
00:31:32.704 --> 00:31:36.499
where we work to spend
and work to spend some
00:31:36.500 --> 00:31:41.748
more and she thinks he already way out
of this squirrel cage syndrome is to
00:31:41.749 --> 00:31:46.638
leave the squirrel cage and I think
this really encapsulates the problem
00:31:46.639 --> 00:31:52.189
that the Industrial Age the modern version
of work that we\'ve all inherited.
00:31:52.190 --> 00:31:56.088
Has done a number on our
souls EF Schumacher
00:31:56.089 --> 00:31:59.809
the British economist says that
if your body gets injured at work
00:31:59.810 --> 00:32:03.619
we have insurance but if your
solo gets injured you\'re on your
00:32:03.620 --> 00:32:07.729
own I just think that
there\'s many people who
00:32:07.730 --> 00:32:14.359
wouldn\'t know at least initially
what to do with periods of free time
00:32:14.360 --> 00:32:17.208
on the one hand there\'s this
kind of if you\'re not busy and
00:32:17.209 --> 00:32:21.588
overwork than you\'re nothing Or
you\'re a failure or whatever.
00:32:21.589 --> 00:32:26.209
They\'d be that but there\'ll be also
this kind of void which we fill with
00:32:26.210 --> 00:32:29.179
constant noise of radio television etc
00:32:29.180 --> 00:32:32.494
etc I mean that\'s what most people
do is they try to fill that silence.
00:32:32.495 --> 00:32:36.348
I think I think a lot of us to do this
is just part of being a human being
00:32:36.349 --> 00:32:40.564
because you don\'t have any
huge desire to contemplate
00:32:40.565 --> 00:32:43.999
the ultimate anything because
we put the ultimate anything
00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:48.183
is have we elevated work to the status of
00:32:48.184 --> 00:32:52.969
the the final and last high
performance sport against
00:32:52.970 --> 00:32:57.798
which we measure absolutely
everything and I think we\'ve lost
00:32:57.799 --> 00:33:04.623
our concept of play community neighborhood
People\'s religious interests art
00:33:04.624 --> 00:33:08.058
I was with 200 CEOs and CFOs
00:33:08.059 --> 00:33:10.759
and whatever arose and of
00:33:10.760 --> 00:33:15.708
Fortune 500 corporations that are Conference
Board meeting and I had the microphone for
00:33:15.709 --> 00:33:19.818
45 minutes and I asked them three
questions and I said how many of
00:33:19.819 --> 00:33:25.713
you want to work harder in five years
and you do now just raise your hand.
00:33:25.714 --> 00:33:31.129
No one raised their hand I said well how many
of you know somebody in your office who\'s
00:33:31.130 --> 00:33:36.874
a slackers just really thrown off So no one
raised their hand and said well that\'s good.
00:33:36.875 --> 00:33:39.948
So let me ask you one more question
I said how many of you know
00:33:39.949 --> 00:33:43.278
someone or are you yourself
spending too much time with
00:33:43.279 --> 00:33:46.729
your children raise your hand and
00:33:46.730 --> 00:33:48.559
said non raised their hand I said So let
00:33:48.560 --> 00:33:51.004
me ask you another question
is what are you doing
00:33:51.005 --> 00:33:54.829
what are you doing you
are creating a system in
00:33:54.830 --> 00:33:58.758
which you cannot spend enough time
with your children and no one else can
00:33:58.759 --> 00:34:02.328
either studying the mystics
over the years east and west
00:34:02.329 --> 00:34:05.958
as I have I was struck by how
much they have to say about
00:34:05.959 --> 00:34:09.243
work and yet how seldom they are invoked at
00:34:09.244 --> 00:34:14.268
board meetings or at when
businesspeople are economists come
00:34:14.269 --> 00:34:17.119
together talk about work I was struck by
00:34:17.120 --> 00:34:21.093
that that our spiritual
traditions consider work to be
00:34:21.094 --> 00:34:24.199
an integral part of the spiritual journey
00:34:24.200 --> 00:34:29.254
and Rocha the great poet
early in this century said.
00:34:29.255 --> 00:34:34.083
Somewhere there is an ancient enmity
between the great work in our daily lives.
00:34:34.084 --> 00:34:36.739
So he was implying that there\'s
00:34:36.740 --> 00:34:40.173
only one work in the universe the great
work which is a universe unfolding.
00:34:40.174 --> 00:34:43.668
But what is the relationship
of that work and our daily
00:34:43.669 --> 00:34:48.199
work that to me is a really
important question I
00:34:48.200 --> 00:34:51.948
feel enormously lucky and
privileged because for most of
00:34:51.949 --> 00:34:56.343
my life I\'ve been free
to do I love doing most.
00:34:56.344 --> 00:34:59.629
My work my life my home or all kind of tied
00:34:59.630 --> 00:35:03.979
together and express a lot
of who I am working at what
00:35:03.980 --> 00:35:06.678
you love is an ideal way to live
00:35:06.679 --> 00:35:10.969
unhappily most of us don\'t have that
opportunity either because we\'ve
00:35:10.970 --> 00:35:14.268
chosen to do something else or
because we had no choice to
00:35:14.269 --> 00:35:18.498
begin with it\'s somehow wasn\'t
in the cards life deltas.
00:35:18.499 --> 00:35:21.918
But if you\'re able to find and do what
00:35:21.919 --> 00:35:25.459
Bruce riddle called spirit
work you\'re on your way to
00:35:25.460 --> 00:35:33.460
solving the defining questions of our age
how can I find the time to do and be.
00:35:33.800 --> 00:35:41.800
What I want Yeah spirit work is is the best
work I think in many ways and you know
00:35:44.149 --> 00:35:47.688
and I get shocked out of it
all the time but when I\'m
00:35:47.689 --> 00:35:51.799
working on that part of my life
I loved the place that I\'m
00:35:51.800 --> 00:35:55.893
in when I\'m in there working on it and
00:35:55.894 --> 00:36:00.574
I think the trick is to sort
of maybe gets there always.
00:36:00.575 --> 00:36:05.569
Yes I see a job as being
what we work out just to
00:36:05.570 --> 00:36:11.059
get a paycheck to pay our bills and I
think that\'s altogether appropriate.
00:36:11.060 --> 00:36:14.658
At times that our life but
our work is something
00:36:14.659 --> 00:36:18.309
that comes from the heart and has
extended to the heart of others
00:36:18.310 --> 00:36:22.098
and The work is why we\'re really here
00:36:22.099 --> 00:36:26.889
and sometimes we get paid for
it and sometimes we don\'t.
00:36:26.890 --> 00:36:30.978
An American fable once upon a time way down
00:36:30.979 --> 00:36:34.698
south of the border in tiny
to paler Chihuahua Mexico.
00:36:34.699 --> 00:36:38.088
Soon to me legend was born when
00:36:38.089 --> 00:36:41.688
searching for my parents and I think I
have narrowed it down to two people
00:36:41.689 --> 00:36:46.609
could be Elvis measurement a
document and we asked could be
00:36:46.610 --> 00:36:51.348
mamamama shadow Gucci good
the child of Elvis and
00:36:51.349 --> 00:36:53.989
Charlie well you know they
work together in they were
00:36:53.990 --> 00:36:56.809
they were bought in Las Vegas
and 1960 which is then
00:36:56.810 --> 00:37:04.810
pamela my concepts via novelty My
name is Robert Lopez and I perform as
00:37:07.070 --> 00:37:15.070
Alvarez the Mexican Elvis Latino take Elvis
Presley turn the history the celebrations
00:37:16.819 --> 00:37:19.729
the problems of Latino and she kind of
00:37:19.730 --> 00:37:27.730
culture issues to fly
00:37:31.000 --> 00:37:38.370
on a hot and smog is some along
another brown babies born here
00:37:47.950 --> 00:37:53.283
That\'s another hungry
battle of the female body.
00:37:53.284 --> 00:37:58.369
My take on albums in the Ghetto was the
first delving into having a message
00:37:58.370 --> 00:38:03.498
or putting a political social
criticism idea across it
00:38:03.499 --> 00:38:05.809
just stemmed from you know wanting to say
00:38:05.810 --> 00:38:09.289
more while I have your attention might
as well say something that\'s on
00:38:09.290 --> 00:38:12.319
my mind and I think the way I do it is
00:38:12.320 --> 00:38:16.519
pretty interesting just because
it catches you off guard.
00:38:16.520 --> 00:38:21.813
Fill oaks was a contemporary of Dylan
folk-singer but he had this great.
00:38:21.814 --> 00:38:24.649
Quote if there\'s any
hope for America lies in
00:38:24.650 --> 00:38:27.888
a revolution And if there\'s any
hope for a revolution it lies in
00:38:27.889 --> 00:38:33.588
Elvis Presley becoming Che Guevara and
I thought that was a great idea for
00:38:33.589 --> 00:38:41.589
my rock and revolution tour
I became their Rising Sun.
00:38:43.355 --> 00:38:46.120
Try for one by
00:38:56.770 --> 00:39:01.189
three into blurring lines so what can be
00:39:01.190 --> 00:39:06.000
alkalis and what can be
entertainment what can be glitter
00:39:09.300 --> 00:39:16.298
I\'ve been a musician since I was 16 so I\'ve
had a lot of that had been dishwasher then
00:39:16.299 --> 00:39:24.299
waiter then cashier have been gallery
curator store managers for retail.
00:39:25.434 --> 00:39:30.563
Has been a model I\'ve done
a little bit acting but
00:39:30.564 --> 00:39:33.999
being a musician has been the most
00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:38.420
rewarding and the one that I\'ve
been doing a long listing.
00:39:42.780 --> 00:39:47.379
You got to love what you
do and sometimes it\'s
00:39:47.380 --> 00:39:51.258
good sometimes it\'s bad but
there\'s just as much Glory and
00:39:51.259 --> 00:39:55.069
being a good dentist as her
as being a rock star and
00:39:55.070 --> 00:40:00.363
I like the idea of blurring those myths
of artists are special people and
00:40:00.364 --> 00:40:03.394
farm workers not I mean they are
00:40:03.395 --> 00:40:05.099
all special
00:40:13.390 --> 00:40:16.559
specific way
00:40:40.600 --> 00:40:44.508
Yes you\'ve got to love what
you do you gotta get in touch
00:40:44.509 --> 00:40:47.658
with joy and I L. This
has Robert Lopez did.
00:40:47.659 --> 00:40:50.688
He\'s your genuine grindstone original and
00:40:50.689 --> 00:40:55.069
his spirit work takes many forms
a radicalized Latino Elvis
00:40:55.070 --> 00:40:58.668
being just one but hey how do those of us
00:40:58.669 --> 00:41:02.808
getting by on a regular paycheck
from a steady but pretty boring job.
00:41:02.809 --> 00:41:09.484
Take the leap from job to work for assault
support parent for example the risk.
00:41:09.485 --> 00:41:16.009
Might be just too scary I met
a woman in Washington DC.
00:41:16.010 --> 00:41:19.968
When I was doing my book signing tour.
00:41:19.969 --> 00:41:22.339
My reinvention the workbook and
you told me this story she
00:41:22.340 --> 00:41:26.448
said I had a job and I knew
it was a job because I hated
00:41:26.449 --> 00:41:30.498
it but I\'m a single parent
and I felt I couldn\'t
00:41:30.499 --> 00:41:35.028
take the risk of quitting it so I
dragged myself to work every day
00:41:35.029 --> 00:41:38.899
and I was making a decent living
but she said one day I got so
00:41:38.900 --> 00:41:42.948
outraged at work I quit on
the spot I was so angry that
00:41:42.949 --> 00:41:45.858
she said I was without work
for three months and it was
00:41:45.859 --> 00:41:50.899
scary but then she said I found a
job that is also my work and she
00:41:50.900 --> 00:41:53.569
said I\'m the happiest I\'ve ever
been in my life I\'m soaring like
00:41:53.570 --> 00:41:58.503
a like a bird Because I\'m
doing that really fulfills
00:41:58.504 --> 00:42:04.489
my my values and my heart desire at the same
time and getting paid for it so what this
00:42:04.490 --> 00:42:07.548
shows is that it\'s just one
more evidence that our work is
00:42:07.549 --> 00:42:11.298
itself is a spiritual process
work requires trust.
00:42:11.299 --> 00:42:14.208
Define your work and to leave
00:42:14.209 --> 00:42:19.698
a comfortable job for it is is an
act of trust and trust is in fact
00:42:19.699 --> 00:42:21.979
what the word faith means
it\'s about trusting
00:42:21.980 --> 00:42:28.909
the universe Alice and Chisholm is
an endangered but happy species.
00:42:28.910 --> 00:42:34.279
An independent organic farmer who has
figured out a way to earn a living.
00:42:34.280 --> 00:42:38.958
Doing what she loves The modern way of life
00:42:38.959 --> 00:42:43.639
seems to be that you have your home life and
you have your work and so you do your work
00:42:43.640 --> 00:42:46.339
and you finish your work and then you
go home and you have your life at
00:42:46.340 --> 00:42:53.539
home you could call farming
00:42:53.540 --> 00:42:57.109
a job but I tend I tend not to
call it a job or a career I called
00:42:57.110 --> 00:43:01.428
a livelihood And I think
the difference there is
00:43:01.429 --> 00:43:04.189
that you\'re not just working but
you\'re living you\'re living
00:43:04.190 --> 00:43:04.340
your
00:43:04.341 --> 00:43:05.789
work
00:43:13.720 --> 00:43:15.168
farming
00:43:15.169 --> 00:43:15.260
is
00:43:15.261 --> 00:43:19.398
A livelihood because it\'s something it\'s
natural it\'s ruled by the seasons and
00:43:19.399 --> 00:43:24.108
by the day I tend not to
have a day that\'s you know.
00:43:24.109 --> 00:43:28.979
Get up at eight and B it worked by
nine I tend to get up with the sun
00:43:43.770 --> 00:43:46.928
It\'s I guess it\'s hard to explain.
00:43:46.929 --> 00:43:52.358
It\'s just a way of life it\'s just
what you do from day to day.
00:43:52.359 --> 00:43:55.448
Rather than what you do from
this time to this time to get
00:43:55.449 --> 00:44:03.449
paid I think though
00:44:03.490 --> 00:44:05.078
increasingly people are looking at
00:44:05.079 --> 00:44:07.628
their core values and they are
asking themselves questions
00:44:07.629 --> 00:44:12.804
like why am I working out
what cost of my working.
00:44:12.805 --> 00:44:18.653
What am I getting out of this but what am
I giving up so if I\'m learning and gauge.
00:44:18.654 --> 00:44:21.594
But what is the cost of
this to my children.
00:44:21.595 --> 00:44:25.309
People are saying how can I
design a life That\'s worth
00:44:25.310 --> 00:44:29.689
living which incorporates rich
relationships with my friends
00:44:29.690 --> 00:44:32.794
with family with the opportunity to pursue
00:44:32.795 --> 00:44:38.389
artistic or athletic pursuits whatever it is
I personally engages me with the opportunity
00:44:38.390 --> 00:44:42.378
to work in a meaningful way I think work Is
00:44:42.379 --> 00:44:46.653
a lot like relationships you\'re
either in it or you\'re out of it and
00:44:46.654 --> 00:44:49.338
if you\'re in it you\'re
working really hard at
00:44:49.339 --> 00:44:52.158
it or not working hard and if
you\'re out of it you want it
00:44:52.159 --> 00:44:56.689
or you know it\'s the same I look at it the
same way you\'re either working or you\'re
00:44:56.690 --> 00:45:01.864
not working on lots of different
levels it\'s inescapable.
00:45:01.865 --> 00:45:06.090
There is no escaping work
00:45:23.500 --> 00:45:28.294
I think increasingly what we\'re
going to do hopefully at least
00:45:28.295 --> 00:45:32.299
is we will value all fields
of endeavor all activity
00:45:32.300 --> 00:45:35.478
whether it\'s the pursuit of
cultural activities time with
00:45:35.479 --> 00:45:38.689
children producing an income that in
00:45:38.690 --> 00:45:41.898
turn of course will liberate
work opportunities for
00:45:41.899 --> 00:45:45.573
those people who can\'t
participate economically.
00:45:45.574 --> 00:45:49.789
Me as you know the tragedy of
the new work order is you have
00:45:49.790 --> 00:45:54.678
two groups of people you have one
group who\'s working too hard and
00:45:54.679 --> 00:45:57.289
another group who can\'t get work or who has
00:45:57.290 --> 00:46:01.669
underemployed it may be by
virtue of us reconfiguring
00:46:01.670 --> 00:46:07.189
rethinking what work means and how many
hours people should be working We can
00:46:07.190 --> 00:46:09.498
start to engage all members of
00:46:09.499 --> 00:46:13.983
the community so that work can
be dispersed more equitably.
00:46:13.984 --> 00:46:19.998
How can we possibly achieve a more
equitable distribution of work and of
00:46:19.999 --> 00:46:24.064
time what if society and
especially government and
00:46:24.065 --> 00:46:29.029
industry recognized their moral
obligation to address this issue.
00:46:29.030 --> 00:46:33.739
Wouldn\'t everyone benefit and
to those who say we don\'t have
00:46:33.740 --> 00:46:38.764
time to fix something that
big the answer is y naught.
00:46:38.765 --> 00:46:45.409
All we really need is the vision to see
it clearly the will to get to work and
00:46:45.410 --> 00:46:53.410
the patience to see it
through There\'s a wonderful.
00:46:53.495 --> 00:46:57.138
Professor of learning
really computer learning at
00:46:57.139 --> 00:47:01.518
MIT named Seymour Papert he told me
this story that he and a bunch of
00:47:01.519 --> 00:47:03.799
his friends were eating at
00:47:03.800 --> 00:47:11.800
a and probably Legal
Seafood seafood restaurant
00:47:11.990 --> 00:47:16.189
in Boston and they\'re having
lobster as they do in
00:47:16.190 --> 00:47:20.598
New England and the question came
up can anybody eat a lobster.
00:47:20.599 --> 00:47:23.898
Completely without making a mess and in
00:47:23.899 --> 00:47:27.889
this group there was a person who
did it was a brain surgeon took
00:47:27.890 --> 00:47:35.838
him two hours and Patron\'s point
is that it wasn\'t his skill.
00:47:35.839 --> 00:47:40.638
He took the time appropriate
to the task which he knew
00:47:40.639 --> 00:47:45.409
about firm in his brain surgery and he
had a completely eaten lobster without
00:47:45.410 --> 00:47:48.483
a smidgen of mess after two hours
00:47:48.484 --> 00:47:54.330
and is peppered points out it wasn\'t
his scale that was his patients
00:47:59.740 --> 00:48:05.208
and so a seemingly impossible task eating
00:48:05.209 --> 00:48:10.219
a lobster without making any mass was
solved by just taking two hours to do it
00:48:10.220 --> 00:48:13.549
It makes you wonder what are
problems that we think of
00:48:13.550 --> 00:48:16.669
as completely unsolvable
that could be self if you
00:48:16.670 --> 00:48:24.670
took 20 years or 200 years and you go from
00:48:25.594 --> 00:48:28.849
the condition we\'re in now
of the can\'t be solved in
00:48:28.850 --> 00:48:32.194
two or three years politicians
00:48:32.195 --> 00:48:35.239
since that\'s sort of their timeframe
say well it\'s unsolvable.
00:48:35.240 --> 00:48:38.628
World hunger or whatever
we just can\'t solve it
00:48:38.629 --> 00:48:43.548
but if somehow permission
we\'re given encouragement or
00:48:43.549 --> 00:48:46.218
given it that\'s okay let\'s bear down on
00:48:46.219 --> 00:48:49.189
this thing for 20 years 50
years home it takes it\'s
00:48:49.190 --> 00:48:51.829
a problem we\'re solving just
stay with it until it\'s
00:48:51.830 --> 00:48:56.489
fixed Then you can eat a
lobster without making a mess
00:49:06.210 --> 00:49:14.210
Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo
00:49:14.484 --> 00:49:22.484
Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo
00:49:34.270 --> 00:49:38.839
What do I do to
00:49:38.840 --> 00:49:46.840
try and do this
Distributor: Bullfrog Films
Length: 50 minutes
Date: 2000
Genre: Expository
Language: English
Grade: 7-12, College, Adult
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