111. Finally, no private property will exist;
all ships and railways, all factories and workshops, all pits, mines and machines, all products of the soil and other commodities, will be owned by the World State, by the whole of terrestrial humanity and not by a few of its individual members.
In actual fact there will be only
one commercial enterprise in the world.
This enterprise does not have the object of establishing the appropriation of unpaid values in the form of "profit" or "surplus", nor of establishing a basis for a "gratis existence" and idleness for a group of "shareholders" and their families, heirs and relations.
On the contrary, the sole purpose of the enterprise will be to maintain the required production of the necessities of life so that the individuals of terrestrial humanity can have
an existence free from worries and servitude.
As we already know, machines of all kinds will be used to carry out the rough physical work, whereas all other kinds of work will be done by terrestrial people themselves.
Every able-bodied individual will have the duty to perform a share of the work which - according to scientific computation - will be necessary for the individual and the remainder of the community, including all its disabled people, in order to make the above-mentioned form of existence possible.
This statutory work cannot in any sense have the least hint of drudgery or compulsion, for the high moral and scientific administration of the World State will guarantee for every person, work in those professions and fields in which he or she has a special interest and the most developed talents and qualifications.
Born artists will then work in the service of art.
Scientifically talented people will work with science, both spiritual and material, while those gifted in handicrafts and artifacts will work in these special areas.
So, in this way, every individual will find his own experienced and tested niche and consequently be content in his work.
A World State can only have an interest in making work stimulating, entertaining and a blessing for the single individual, and not a necessary evil, as is the case in present times when millions of terrestrial people all over the world see their work only in that light, and even more so because, in addition to their own upkeep, they must also support a string of superfluous and unpaid existences for the staff of capitalist rulers,
through which their work becomes the same as servitude; indeed, it looks somewhat akin to serfdom.
In the World State the people's work will never be of such a nature.
The total amount of work necessary every day for maintaining the existence of all humanity will be scientifically computed, and distributed to all normal and fully able-bodied individuals of both sexes in the form of
"normal working days".
Everyone will thus be assigned a certain weekly number of those
"normal working days" in trades or in areas where, as mentioned above, they have their interests and aptitudes.
In accordance with the World State's expanded and perfected economic design which does not allow any able-bodied individual to escape his duty to work, the normal working day in that World State will be far shorter than is the case at present, and this means
a great deal of leisure time for everyone, just as there will be - as mentioned above - weekly study days for all individuals for the development of the spirit and of culture.