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 take care of 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 your 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
ignore 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.
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.
