Working

First of all, I know that I am doing this post late and that I will likely not be recieving any credit for it, but I wanted to get it done for you anyways. I had a lot harder of a time with this unit that I have had with other units. It was harder for me to process and understand, so I will do my best on this post to answer the questions well, but we will see how it goes. 

In a communist political structure people dont have a lot of hope because in the end they dont really get in anything in return for what they do. For me, I work really hard for my money, but so much of it always goes to paying taxes. I dont have a problem helping someone, but I dont want to be compelled to do it. Especially becuase some of the people I am being compelled to help are people who refuse to help themselves. Sometimes this makes doing the extra mile at work seem fruitless. 

In our jobs we have to make sure things are done right, not just becuase it is our job because it effects other peoples lives. Anexample is my dad, he sterilizes surgry equiptment and if he doesnt do his job right, someone could actually die, because of his lack of attention or effort to his work. Knowing that when he does his job the right it can actually have a positive impact on a patients recovery, he says that is very satisfying to him to have an influence on being able to be a part of someone coming to the hospital for a surgery to get better. Your job can make you stop and think about how you behave and how your personal choices, not just your work choices impact other peoples lives good and bad. 

Alright, so in Smith, he talked about how we do the work that we do to help ourselves, not really to help others, but because we are helping ourselves we are helping others. And if we are all helping ourselves, then the world will go around, because it all goes around in a circle and makes things work in the world. When everyone is doing their part, then you dont have to try to worry about something or someone elses job or responsibilities that will take away from the focus of your own. So everyone doing their own job the right way helps everyone else to do their jobs the right way. I think this relates a lot to the social contract articles we read recently. In Rousseau it talked about how "Man is born free, yet is always in chains", to paraphrase. I think that these two articles/topics relate in that a man is born free to do their own work and worry about only themselves. But, they are in chains to know that they need to do their part and other people need to do their part, or else someone is going to have to pick up the slack somewhere and not everyone is going to be free anymore. So if you dont do your own work efficiently then someone, whether it be you or someone else will be enslaved to do the unfinished work.