{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 330/1919-04-28/p021","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Not equal are men in regard to their individual abilities and talents. All these individual abilities and talents must be developed in a free intellectual life, in an intellectual life independent of the State. Democracy can achieve nothing here. Democracy has as its content everything in which all men are equal and to which no experience of life belongs. But experience of life is the element of economic life. The State must not concern itself with economic affairs. Its function is to lay down and regulate all those matters in which one human being is absolutely equal to another, and in which true democracy can prevail. These include, besides property rights, which you will find more fully explained in my book, above all labor law. In the future, the time, extent and type of work will have to be regulated by the state, which is independent of economic life, so that the worker, who is himself involved in this regulation, comes with a legally limited amount of work, with a working hours limited above all by labor law, when he enters the factory or workshop, before he concludes any kind of contract with a supervisor. Just as economic life, on the one hand, borders on the natural foundations of life and can only get by with a few technical measures, but is ultimately dependent on them, so economic life will, in the future, have to border on the other side of the firmly established labor law. It will no longer be possible to determine wages according to the utility value of goods, as is still essentially the case in our economic system today. All prosperity, all production within economic life will only be able to be shaped as a consequence of what is determined by the state as labor law, just as economic life can only be developed as dependent on natural resources. You can read more about this in my book “The Key Aspects of the Social Question in the Necessities of Life Today and in the Future”. We are now coming to the second of the key aspects of the social question, the regulation of labor law by separating economic life from state life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"IV. The Key Points of the Social Question in the Necessities of Life In the Present and the Future","site_heading":null,"date":"1919-04-28","location":null,"word_count":366,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/330/1919-04-28/p021","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Reorganization of the Social Organism","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA330/English/SOL2024/19190428p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Dazu gehörtneben dem Besitzrecht, das Sie in meinem Buche weiter ausgeführt finden, vor allen Dingen das Arbeitsrecht. Zeit, Maß und Art der Arbeit wird in der Zukunft von dem vom Wirtschaftsleben unabhängigen Staate geregelt werden müssen, so daß der Arbeiter, der selber mit dabei ist bei dieser Regelung, schon wenn er die Fabrik, die Werkstätte betritt, mit einem durch das Recht begrenzten Arbeitsmaß kommt, mit einer vor allen Dingen durch das Arbeitsrecht begrenzten Arbeitszeit kommt, bevor er irgendeinen Vertrag mit einem Arbeitsleiter abschließt. Wie das Wirtschaftsleben auf der einen Seite an die Naturgrundlage grenzt und man höchstens durch einige technische Maßnahmen dieser Naturgrundlage bei-. kommen kann, aber im weiteren von ihr abhängig ist, so wird das Wirtschaftsleben zukünftig müssen auf der anderen Seite an das fest geregelte Arbeitsrecht grenzen. Man wird nicht nach dem Gebrauchswert der Güter den Lohn bestimmen können, wie das im wesentlichen noch heute innerhalb unserer Wirtschaftsordnung der Fall ist. Man wird allen Wohlstand, alle Produktion innerhalb des Wirtschaftslebens nur als eine Konsequenz desjenigen gestalten können, was vom Staate als Arbeitsrecht festgesetzt ist, wie man das Wirtschaftsleben auf der anderen Seite nur entwickeln kann als abhängig von den Naturgrundlagen. Das weitere müssen Sie schon nachlesen in meinem Buch «Die Kernpunkte der sozialen Frage in den Lebensnotwendigkeiten der Gegenwart und Zukunft». Wir kommen da eben zum zweiten der Kernpunkte der sozialen Frage, zu der Regelung des Arbeitsrechtes durch eine Abtrennung des Wirtschaftslebens von dem staatlichen Leben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":327,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/330/1919-04-28/p021"}],"english":["GA 330/1919-04-28/p021"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":327,"en_words":366,"ratio":1.12,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9703,"original_word_count":9371,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Reorganization of the Social Organism","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA330/English/SOL2024/19190428p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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