The suicidal mental slavery of capitalism

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[commanderjohnkoenig]

This is about semantics. There is nothing wrong with work. Work means using your muscles and brain in some activity. If you engage in some activity when you want because you want, then the work you do is not different from play. That's why when you have your own business, you don't even care how long you work or what time it is.

A job on the other hand is performing work under supervision and threath of being laid off. Which is definitely not fun.

[zurieljoshua]

@dynamitemike65 Not true, my friend. A gardner or farmer, an artist, a writer, a great cook...people who pursue their passions would choose our labor over shopping. To me, being engaged in writing is one of the highest pleasures. Shopping is a frivolous entertainment. The question is well put, but we can't see well outside the box we were socialised in. What if we organised around what we wanted to learn and achieve, not molded in school to fit like cogs into the machine?

[zurieljoshua]

Everyone! Solutions! Read Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein. Look into the Trasition Town movement. We need to build networks to un-commidify our relationship to goods and services (the earth and each other).

[scottandrewhutchins]

@randy95023 the problem is that businesses want to pay college graduates a non-living wage.

[scottandrewhutchins]

@zurieljoshua Lucky people will pay you for it. I've written a novel and a half, five screenplays, and three stage plays. I have an award and a letter of recommendation, but I have yet to find anyone interested in producing or publishing my work. I have been struggling to get interviews in spite of having a master's degree, and I'm going to lose Internet access if I don't pay the bill by Monday, which I currently can't.

[Shmee6000]

that's like saying "which is best, doing the dishes or having sex?"

[randy95023]

We all live in the dual role as "Producer" and "Consumer". We must produce enough to consume what we feel is comfortable or socially appropriate. The problem with most Americans is that we want to Consume MORE than we are willing to Produce. (Hurray for Credit Cards?!)

Isn't Economics fun?

[insanebeatjunkie]

@UtubeMyAccountName only those few represented on the dollar bill have the essence of all technology, a average joe cannot build technology from the ground up unless you are using magic. no amount of education will teach you this secret, if they did then their would be no use for a job when you finished school, you just find your own land live on it and create whatever the hell you wanted. last thing be on your mind was money

[insanebeatjunkie]

@UtubeMyAccountName thats correct, but to extend more into this look at the glowing eyeball behind a dollar bill inside of a triangle above the pyramid, that is the 3rd eye aka PINEAL GLAND. when a human being is not apart of the elite bloodline, and found sum kind of way to use their 3rd eye, the govt' sends the MIB after them and treat them as a alien, bcuz the pineal gland is a magic vessel in our body that allows man to do magic, technology,weaponry,tools,etc are made with the 3rd eye

[cybersphere]

Loaded question

[xplastilinaverdex]

@MrKanaletas precisely :)

[xplastilinaverdex]

@Wutwut1n1 very well said :)