"Expressions"

  Expression

We all partake of chance to make expressions

Relieving us of  all ongoing strain

It all comes down to points to pound in sessions

Expressing joy, relieving all the pain

  

Pent up demands come bursting across

The silence in which we can't think

At madness bemused, we all make a toss

To drown our dismay in the sink

The Voice is the choice to sing it aloud

Relieving the stress of the void

That captures the pain of the misery's shroud

To the cosmos at large, you employed

The tool at your disposal is just grand

To voice the anguish is at your command

Amazing that you use it, oh, so well

Exposing all the painful past of hell

My intent to ring the future knell

Resounding clarion of life on bell

I understand the cosmos now

As maybe you do not

My rhoems do express, somehow

The lines within the plot

This awful task that fell to me

With no recourse to cease

Ride the anonymity

Of all of our Humanity

Reveal the love and peace

The burden of it fell to me

Because my gender hid from sight

That which just my heart could see

In wracking pain of night

Hidden 'neath the dark and pain

The madness held its awful reign

For far too long 

Without a song

To ride the Love to life

Remitting witless strife

To the depth of hell

Then, ring that newborn bell

Seems to be the tell

Sorry, need a scratch pad for a thought that fits nowhere in particular.  Each year's newborns start work one year later than the previous year until no one needs to work.  I know that sounds whacky but that's where we've been headed for a century and, now that AI and robotics are being funded like mad, it's time to begin considering what is done about it.

So, this year's newborns (2025) would start, say, at 21 years of age or 2046 and next year's newborns (2o26) start work one year older, start at 22 or 2048, government/society would pay them until the day they started working.  Population and meaningful employment have been at cross-purposes for at least a century.  Population goes up and number of jobs goes down with no regard for the humans.  How weird is that?  This would solve that completely in one hundred and forty years.  The only issue is where does the money come from to fund this orderly retreat from the mad concept of debt?  The amount has to fund each child born at the cost of food, shelter, clothes and health until they begin to be required to work.  I must say that health should be an outlier.  The astronomical cost of health emergencies makes it clear that it cannot be calculated per person.  It must be single payer system, in other words a government entity.  That has always been the point.  Housing should be similar, really.

It seems to me that the calculations for these costs as government costs implies that the government should be able to determine the number of children born.  Birth would become regulated.  I'm sure that freaks out any prehuman dedicated to remaining so.

Government should also be able to determine how much income is necessary for the populace per dollar GDP and charge for every dollar of GDP for the purpose of funding a society that needs no workers.  Any money issued to newborns for this scheme would not be taxed.  Tricky, sticky.

This is a nice change from my other effort to make humanity function like a Human.

The only problem is editing.  I just don't feel like it, though I may toy with these ideas some, see if I can clean them up.

My biggest problem, right now, is finding where this should reside.  While the rhoetry belongs on both rhoetry sites, I think Tapestry gets the nod, since I've already begun using it as a platform for flighty thoughts.