Picture a better World
Picture the world at peace. The fighting and bombing has stopped and the people are able to return to their homes and their families, taking up work to rebuild their damaged communities. The time of global terrorism has ended; we have come to see that we are all one on this Earth, and that we don’t want to fight our brothers and sisters, our mothers and fathers, our own children anymore. The weapons are melted down, the bombs are deactivated, and the production and sale of weapons to foreign countries are stopped; we will no longer fuel the violence of war. See yourself going to work only 3.5 days per week. No more Mondays. Everybody gets a half-day Friday. The room this makes for creativity and invention, the extra attention that our families will receive, the well-being that would come to our minds and bodies with that additional time to ourselves... only needing to give away half of our days, instead of over 2/3, in order to financially sustain our lives. Envision democracy by a