{"id":43001,"date":"2022-12-15T15:40:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T14:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=43001"},"modified":"2022-12-15T15:40:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T14:40:38","slug":"the-archimedean-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/the-archimedean-point\/","title":{"rendered":"The Archimedean Point"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>\u00abDos moi pou sto kai kino ten gae\u00bb \u2013 Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth. In his mathematical treatises, the Greek mathematician Pappus quotes Archimedes here. This is how the latter illustrates the law of the lever. With a fixed point and a long enough lever, he could lift the earth off its hinges.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>The experiment in the 10th grade of Waldorf schools shows the effect in a somewhat more manageable way: a five-meter-long iron bar is inserted under a car and supported at the door pillar with stones. The most petite girl in the class pushes down on the end of the bar and raises the two-tonne vehicle. \u2039The Archimedean Point\u203a is the title of a lecture that G\u00f6tz Werner gave ten years ago on universal basic income. The Archimedean points whizz through the small auditorium in rapid succession. In a society based on the division of labour, the question is not: \u2039What do you accomplish?\u203a but: \u2039What do you want to utilise of the accomplishment of others?\u203a Here the point is placed. Thinking provides the lever: \u00abThis requires a change from taxing wages to taxing consumption!\u00bb Unlike a pulley or a gearbox, which are also capable of increasing force, the law of the lever involves the utmost simplicity. There is only one point and the lever that rests on it. Anthroposophy is full of Archimedean points. As with lifting a car, the closer you place them to reality, the easier it is to lift the latter off its hinges. That was the case with G\u00f6tz Werner. As an entrepreneur, as a practitioner, his Archimedean points were right next to the block that needed to be lifted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Illustration<\/strong> Fabian Roschka &lt;strong&gt;Translation&lt;\/strong&gt; Christian von Arnim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00abDos moi pou sto kai kino ten gae\u00bb \u2013 Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth. In his mathematical treatises, the Greek mathematician Pappus quotes Archimedes here. This is how the latter illustrates the law of the lever. With a fixed point and a long enough lever, he could lift the earth off its hinges. The experiment in the 10th grade of Waldorf schools shows the effect in a somewhat more manageable way: a five-meter-long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9159,"featured_media":42626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8796,8808],"tags":[11268,8819],"class_list":["post-43001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-column","category-economics","tag-2022-46-en","tag-seeds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}