With Less by King Everything

King Everything is participating in the 12in12x12 project. 12 brand new songs written and recorded in 12 hours. These are the songs from July 2014.

I've spent a bunch of years wondering why there always seems to be just enough work for us all to do--never way more than we can handle, and never nowhere near enough to keep around 90% of us employed. Wondering how this could possibly be? How has it been true, and how will it remain true? Will it remain true? To even ponder these questions would be depressing. There's no way there will be enough for us to do. Robots, machines, computers, world-wide labor, more and more efficient procedures. Anyhow, only within the past year or so have I found stuff to read on the topic. This album of songs is about these ideas.

Tracklist

1.	Stultified	2:53

2.	They’re Not Hiring at the Plant	2:51

3.	My Robot’s Proud of Me	2:47

4.	If You Can’t Keep Up	2:32

5.	Barbara Streisand	2:32

6.	Skip Past the Poem	3:14

7.	Or See Where It Leads?	2:15

8.	Kick Back and Smile	2:07

9.	Corners	2:11

10.	Everyone Enough	2:17

11.	Nothing Forever	2:52

12.	Literally Anything	2:24

Credits

released July 30, 2014

DJ Turner's tuba appears on Tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, and 12.

01 Stultified (a,b)
02 They’re Not Hiring at the Plant (a,b)
03 My Robot's Proud of Me (a,e)
04 If You Can't Keep Up (a,c,e)
05 Barbara Streisand (b,c,d)
06 Skip Past the Poem (e)
07 Or See Where It Leads? (b,c,e)
08 Kick Back and Smile (a)
09 Corners (a,b,c)
10 Everyone Enough (c)
11 Nothing Forever (b,e)
12 Literally Anything (a,b)

Resources:

(a) The End of Work by Jeremy Rifkin

(b) John Maynard Keynes, “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren”
www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf

(c) From The Economist… The future of jobs… The onrushing wave… Previous technological innovation has always delivered more long-run employment, not less. But things can change… Jan 18th 2014
www.economist.com/news/briefing/21594264-previous-technological-innovation-has-always-delivered-more-long-run-employment-not-less

(d) The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman

(e) The New Digital Age by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen

(f) From Films for Action... "Why Does Everyone Have to Work?" www.filmsforaction.org/watch/why-does-everyone-have-to-work/

Album cover: Kristine Potter teeniekmp.deviantart.com

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