Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living?
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I think it's become an economic necessity for people to be able to learn and grow throughout their lives, because most people can't get through their entire career with one skill set. We have to keep reinventing ourselves.
In the industrial world we have the problem of having more productive capacity than we know what to do with. That's at the root of the unemployment crisis: we've got so productive at making things, we don't require people to be involved in making the basics of life any more. Or nearly as many people.
As you reach more people, there is a potential to make a living with what you are creating, and that's the goal.
In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they know about, they are missing out on much else life has to offer.
Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.
People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.