[Lupe]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

For more on the garbage collection questions, see this 2006 article:
If Everyone Awakens Will We All Starve?

How can I justify cleaning my house, when I might spend that same time writing an article that will be just what someone needed to make a major, positive life-changing decision? In terms of overall impact, there’s no comparison. By any stretch of the imagination, I’m far better off writing than cleaning.

To a highly conscious person, trading one’s purpose for a salary is a silly compromise because money brings no joy without purpose, so that high salary is just the modern form of a slave’s shackles.

So if everyone woke up to a noble purpose tomorrow, we’d still be able to feed ourselves. A purpose-centered person will still do what needs to be done. But menial tasks that weren’t really necessary would be cut. For example, people wouldn’t work in wage slave jobs making non-essential knick-knacks that no one really cares about. People wouldn’t waste time and energy making dumb movies, TV shows, toys, and games that don’t enhance our lives. A number of corporations would see no one show up for work because it would be obvious that the corporation only existed to make a profit, not a positive social contribution. For example, it’s hard to imagine that anyone who’s conscious and aware could willingly go to work for a tobacco company.

The more we automate our menial tasks, the more time we have to make a larger contribution. Automation also gives us time for introspection, meditation, journaling, deep conversation, and lots of other awareness-raising pursuits.

If you can invent something that saves people a lot of time or trouble on a large scale, you’ve made a pretty massive contribution.

If you’re working in a job you hate just to pay the bills, you’re robbing this wonderful planet of the real contribution you could be making.