Communism for the former hot air, and fascism for the latter shit-stirring.

I disagree that everyone wants 3-4 hours a week of work and then, what do they do with their time? Time is a limited resource, and every individual has the responsibility of choosing what they do, and what they do not do, with their time. They sacrifice one thing for another.

Leisure is an example of a utility. Consumption is a utility. You enjoy its use. However, too much utilities, and they flip inside out and become disutilities. This is why after a very long vacation, you come back to work, and are relieved that it's over, as much as you enjoyed it. The sense of emptiness that sex addicts and drug addicts talk about, this is a disutility from over-used utilities.

In general, exerting energy and consuming time towards labor is a disutility. But the sense of accomplishment, the kudos for work well done, the praise for seeing first what should have been obvious, these are utilities. These are the benefits of labor, beyond just the money you get. People work for these things, things that you cannot buy with money.

Love is an example of this. It can be very hard work, and sometimes it may not be worth it in the end. But people work very hard, they dedicate their lives, to win the love of others, or at least, to feel that they deserve it (self love). They will even die for it. Love is a utility that is worth more than anything else in this world. Love is a small part of the utility provided by praise, vindication, and to some extent, even getting paid, has an element of a sense of being loved - that of being valued, and wanted.

That article was quite good for pointing out how the ones who have acquired their wealth through stealth, trickery, and even outright bloodshed and violence, and the inheritors of these dirty legacies, are attempting to maintain their privileged position, by manipulating the economy in ways that intentionally produces discontentment. Then their little puppets up on the podiums, in their press conferences and speeches, can declare to everyone that some particular group of the people caused this discontentment, and then they make rules to punish them, which further increases discontentment, and creates endless opportunities for these people to keep stirring up negative emotions in people, and then telling them they should blame someone else.

Instead of taking responsibility for it.

And it can be very hard to escape from this loop. Because the whole system is designed to manufacture discontent, if you simply want to make a living doing things that people love to have done, the obstacles in your path can be completely soul destroying.

This is why these new distributed network systems are so powerful. They take control of the pool of resources, without any central master plan, and the people themselves then create their solutions. They apply their energy to enhancing the power of these systems. It is my opinion, with the appearance of Steem, we are now into the first phase of the DAO era. Sure, maybe by some people's definitions, Steem is not a DAO, but I beg to differ. I think it's actually better than a DAO, because machines make less of the decisions, and humans make more. The machines are just being built and run, in order to protect the people from criminals.

To me, the automation of these precisely 'bullshit jobs' by distributed network systems, is why they are having such an impact on the world. Blockchain, distributed processing and storage and cryptographic security, allow us to not have to depend on a trusted third party, who, if they can, will seek to become the only provider of 'trust', and then they can hold you to ransom if you do not pay. These new systems eliminate these intermediaries, and allow people to put out really very small amounts of energy to facilitate the automated administrative and security systems, and utterly replace the entire apparatus of banks, governments, insurance companies, and, this is the thing, even Corporations. That is what Steem is. It is a corporation, it is structured as a corporation, but nobody is really in charge. The guys who 'control' steem, really, they only get the benefit of this if they actually succeed in doing what people want them to do, with the system.