Just a thought! We put our hopes in the
corporate and it cost us our freedom. If we
learned to live with less we'd have more.
It was so easy. I just took it for granted
that I'd go to work each day and get a paycheck
each week. The paycheck was freedom. It was the
freedom to buy what I wanted. It was the freedom
to not rely on others for anything and the pride
to support myself. It gave me power to be
somebody of value as I went about and spent the
money I earned. The only price for this freedom
was work. Work where I gave up all my rights.
I was nobody at work. I had no value other that
the tasks I was assigned. The trade off was
unquestionable.
Society as a whole adopted the corporate way:
freedom at night, slavery during the day (at
work). The worst of it was the limits imposed on
us. We had no access to resources and the
paycheck was limited to our skill set designed by
the corporate institutional hierarchy to use for
its profit.
People reveled in their pride and arrogance.
The more the corporate environment gave them for
their skill set the more they were worth to
society. The more you could buy the more
valuable you were, the more powerful, the smarter
you were, after work. Heaven forbid you quit
earning. In our personal arrogance it was
inconceivable that we would ever quit earning and
those who did not earn a paycheck were branded as
undesirables and misfits. Then when we got old
we were categorized with statistics as not useful
and not worthy of a paycheck.
The rest of society that was still useful to
corporate turned away and ignored those who had
no corporate value. They grew to endorse the
corporate way even stronger and looked the other
way when the useless walked by, when values were
assigned and when new laws were made that further
ensconced the corporate way of life into society.
If only life were simple and we had access to
our resources, to build, to eat and to market.
I think we'd all be a little more valuable to
each other and we would respect the wisdom of our
elders.
