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Work wassupposed to be achoice.

There is so much more to life than working from 16 to 65 and calling that living. This is where I break down how to take your time back, and why work should be your choice.

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Why this exists

Work, retire, repeat is not a law of nature.

Work from 16 to 65, take a vacation if they let you, and die without much to show for it. I refuse to believe that is the whole deal.

People can earn their own way now. They can take their time back and spend it doing what they want. Standard Thought is where I put that way of thinking on the table, one idea at a time, in my own words.

The ideas

Four doors into one worldview.

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Time is the real currency

Work should be a choice, not what you have to do to live. Earn on your own terms and spend your hours how you want.

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02

Question the standard

A lot of what we call normal was just handed to us. Look at it for real, then decide what you keep.

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03

A world of abundance

Put the borders, the wars and the capitalism to the side and look how far we could get. Space exploration. Other planets. More than enough for everybody.

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04

Community that circulates

We have so much to give, and we spend with everybody but each other. I want more for my people. The door stays open to everyone who wants in.

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Standards, in short

Work should be a choice.

Not what we have to do just to live.

Standard No. 1

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