Comments on: Save and prosper

By: Alex Bell

Alex Bell — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:10:04 +0000

I think it is important that when looking at a better way of life, we don’t get sucked into an idealist utopian vision. People live much longer now. If we are all going to be doing less work, then all sorts of people will be living long retirements. Someone has to be a refuse collector, and factories will always exist. People are going to be keen to retire from these jobs.

You will still have to pay fuel bills, rent or mortgage, phone, and you may even want to get out of your house and see other things. As you point out in the book, living with no money is no fun. Could be that if we were saving adequately instead of spending it, we might still have to work just as hard. I haven’t done the maths.

By: editor

editor — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:01:44 +0000

None of it will be easy David but if shift a bit to a world of none consuming pleasures then all sorts of opportunities for better work, trades, caring etc open up.

By: David Floyd

David Floyd — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:11:11 +0000

“and third if we can we should have jobs we enjoy and are fulfilling and therefore we never want to retire from.”

So, who’s going to do the stuff that’s not enjoyable and fulfilling but is necessary?

Also, we may possibly want to discourage the bloke who still really, really enjoys driving a coach at the age of 96.