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Which also brings us in to the next stage in a person’s life, after they’ve gotten through their teenage years and they’re ready to start becoming a contributing member of society, how do they choose what they’re going to do? We have a non-monetary basis of commerce in Telos.
As a person is growing up, they basically watch, decide, assess their own talents. Then they decide what they want to do, and that is usually the field they pursue. They’ve generally set their own hours. And since everything is on a barter basis, we’ve gotten to a great understanding that if you don’t fulfill your part of the bargain then it hurts others than just you.
What is meant by that is we are set up on a basis that the government owns everything but the government is not responsible for controlling anything. All the government is responsible is to make sure that the food, for instance, gets from the hydroponic gardens to the distribution outlets, the clothing makes it to the distribution outlets, the furniture, all the things that are needed for people to live and to live well.
You understand that you’re not living unless you’re living well. And when you need something you simply go to a distribution center and pick it up. You need new clothing, you go get clothing. You need food, you go get food. You need furnishings, you go get furnishings. You need books, you go get books.
As I said, everyone sets their own hours. Someone who is drawn to gardening becomes one of the hydroponic gardeners. They come and they work the amount of hours they wish. So in essence, we do have a dim period and we have a bright period. What I mean by that is we’ve discovered that people work in cycles better than they do in a constant.
So thus about the same time the sun is setting on the surface, filters are slid over the front of our lighting system, dimming it till it is about as dim as it is in twilight. Then when the sun would be rising, the filters start sliding back slowly thus allowing it to get brighter and brighter. When we first moved into Telos we experimented with leaving it bright all the time, and again, as I said, we found out that people function better in cycles.
Some people like to sleep when it’s dimmer and work when it’s bright. Other people, like the night owls that prefer to work or play when it’s dim and sleep when it’s bright. But everyone is allowed to function in the way that is the most comfortable to them.
So everyone comes in and sets their own hours and simply informs, you might say, the foreman of whatever their job is, which hours they’re going to be working over the next few day period. And everyone comes in and works basically as long as they wish and then they go and they do whatever else they want to do. But understanding that since we’re on a society that if you’re too lazy to go work at all in the hydroponic gardens and that’s your job, somebody might not have enough food. Or if you didn’t feel like designing clothing or creating clothing or furniture and you made no other arrangements for someone else to take up your slack of time, someone else in the city might be going without.
So understanding that method has made people responsible for what hours they work. Understanding that they are doing true service that somebody will appreciate. The only thing that we don’t interchange by simply putting in the distribution centers are things like art forms, art objects, massages, things like that. That is done in what we call a barter basis.
Those who, for instance, their main talent is art, whether it’s drawing, pottery, sculpting, massage. All these different little things that are not part of the whole, not part of, what you might say, necessities, but are necessities to the soul. As I said, these go to the distribution centers in the form of the barter pool. In other words, you walk in and you see a statue that was created by somebody you really want. In exchange for it, you’re willing to give ten massages and you’re very good at massage. Or you’re willing to come and sing.
And the barter pool goes through it with the computers and perhaps the person who made the statue doesn’t need a massage but a person who brought in a painting that the person who made the statue wants, wants massages. So it continually, the barter pool switches and curves so that everyone’s needs are met. So everyone can come in and exchange energy in some form to receive, you might say, the little pampering things in life.
Also within this system, people setting their own hours, it does not become so crystallized that no one has any freedom to come and go at their will, that people can truly set their lives to achieve the best of work, of play, of rest, of meditation, spiritual endeavors, so that everything is met and not at the expense of something else, understanding that spiritual time is just as important as work time.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
Which also brings us in to the next stage in a person’s life, after they’ve gotten through their teenage years and they’re ready to start becoming a contributing member of society, how do they choose what they’re going to do? We have a non-monetary basis of commerce in Telos.
As a person is growing up, they basically watch, decide, assess their own talents. Then they decide what they want to do, and that is usually the field they pursue. They’ve generally set their own hours. And since everything is on a barter basis, we’ve gotten to a great understanding that if you don’t fulfill your part of the bargain then it hurts others than just you.
What is meant by that is we are set up on a basis that the government owns everything but the government is not responsible for controlling anything. All the government is responsible is to make sure that the food, for instance, gets from the hydroponic gardens to the distribution outlets, the clothing makes it to the distribution outlets, the furniture, all the things that are needed for people to live and to live well.
You understand that you’re not living unless you’re living well. And when you need something you simply go to a distribution center and pick it up. You need new clothing, you go get clothing. You need food, you go get food. You need furnishings, you go get furnishings. You need books, you go get books.
As I said, everyone sets their own hours. Someone who is drawn to gardening becomes one of the hydroponic gardeners. They come and they work the amount of hours they wish. So in essence, we do have a dim period and we have a bright period. What I mean by that is we’ve discovered that people work in cycles better than they do in a constant.
So thus about the same time the sun is setting on the surface, filters are slid over the front of our lighting system, dimming it till it is about as dim as it is in twilight. Then when the sun would be rising, the filters start sliding back slowly thus allowing it to get brighter and brighter. When we first moved into Telos we experimented with leaving it bright all the time, and again, as I said, we found out that people function better in cycles.
Some people like to sleep when it’s dimmer and work when it’s bright. Other people, like the night owls that prefer to work or play when it’s dim and sleep when it’s bright. But everyone is allowed to function in the way that is the most comfortable to them.
So everyone comes in and sets their own hours and simply informs, you might say, the foreman of whatever their job is, which hours they’re going to be working over the next few day period. And everyone comes in and works basically as long as they wish and then they go and they do whatever else they want to do. But understanding that since we’re on a society that if you’re too lazy to go work at all in the hydroponic gardens and that’s your job, somebody might not have enough food. Or if you didn’t feel like designing clothing or creating clothing or furniture and you made no other arrangements for someone else to take up your slack of time, someone else in the city might be going without.
So understanding that method has made people responsible for what hours they work. Understanding that they are doing true service that somebody will appreciate. The only thing that we don’t interchange by simply putting in the distribution centers are things like art forms, art objects, massages, things like that. That is done in what we call a barter basis.
Those who, for instance, their main talent is art, whether it’s drawing, pottery, sculpting, massage. All these different little things that are not part of the whole, not part of, what you might say, necessities, but are necessities to the soul. As I said, these go to the distribution centers in the form of the barter pool. In other words, you walk in and you see a statue that was created by somebody you really want. In exchange for it, you’re willing to give ten massages and you’re very good at massage. Or you’re willing to come and sing.
And the barter pool goes through it with the computers and perhaps the person who made the statue doesn’t need a massage but a person who brought in a painting that the person who made the statue wants, wants massages. So it continually, the barter pool switches and curves so that everyone’s needs are met. So everyone can come in and exchange energy in some form to receive, you might say, the little pampering things in life.
Also within this system, people setting their own hours, it does not become so crystallized that no one has any freedom to come and go at their will, that people can truly set their lives to achieve the best of work, of play, of rest, of meditation, spiritual endeavors, so that everything is met and not at the expense of something else, understanding that spiritual time is just as important as work time.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net