Think about it - nobody really gets rich from selling themselves by the hour. Anyone who's rich enough to be put in a Forbes article for having Ferraris coming out of their ass has so much money that you couldn't become as rich as them by working for a wage, even if your wage was a thousand dollars an hour and you worked for a thousand years. Let's not forget that when you work you most likely rent as well, unless you're a boomer, inherited money or live in the middle of nowhere with really cheap housing, so realistically you probably live hand-to-mouth giving 30-50% of your wages to some fat fuck 55 year old with hypertension who thinks they're Conrad Hilton. Is it even worth continuing to be alive if you live like this and dedicate all your waking hours with energy to this?
How do people become rich if not by working and pulling themselves up by their bootstraps? Manipulating money (Warren Buffet) or getting other people to do work for you (Jeff Bezos). You might have to do a little bit of work at the beginning but you can always take an idea a bunch of other people have and cash in on it at the right time (Mark Zuckerberg). the only reason people who've done this tell you you can be successful by just working is because they need people to keep working for them to stay afloat in an economy that's needed constant growth since the eighteenth century to function. It's absolute bullshit. The government also likes when you work because then you can pay taxes for their functionaries who want to microchip you and have keyloggers installed on your intel computer so they can watch your porn search data to make sure you aren't thinking about flying a plane into an IRS building or bombing them like McVeigh (a hundred years ago politicians walked freely in the streets of Washington DC, now they only go anywhere with bodyguards - why do people hate them so much all of a sudden?), which I'm not suggesting you do at all but it is thought-provoking.
Can anyone tell me how working isn't just a completely awful pyramid scheme? How do you contribute to society by working in a call centre or doing door-to-door sales, like the majority of jobs in the developed world are now? Did you know that US manufacturing has been so eclipsed by traditionally-female service jobs that the majority of the American workforce is now women (those weird broad-hipped soft-skinned long-haired people that weren't allowed into most workplaces less than a century ago)? Regardless of whether men or women shine people's shoes for a living, is there any dignity in selling yourself for something so useless? Even if your job is useless, how are you helping yourself and your community by contributing to the most awful ponzi scheme ever devised by man?
You'll never receive anything more than the scraps of what you put in. When anything goes wrong, they WILL throw you under the bus. The managers WILL fuck you over if it saves their skin. American taxpayers' money is going to cruise ship companies right now while state governments make it illegal for the plebs to buy seeds. In Australia, the government suspended all gun sales even though you aren't able to own one for self defence because the applications for them skyrocketed in number.
Is renting yourself out to people who don't care if you die of corona on the shop floor really worth the money, especially when you can never get that time back with any amount of money? Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos are vampires sucking many human lifetimes' worth of labour hours out of their employees every day for almost nothing in return other than enough food and a sturdy enough room to stay under so that they can keep working for Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon. How much are YOU really worth per hour, honestly?
You probably work because you have to, but even if you aren't clever or creative enough to enslave others or manipulate money produced by others, have you ever considered finding a way to mooch off the government or family members so you don't have to work? It seems like the God-given right of any person who is aware of this to avoid it, unless of course you think slavery is also ethical and we should all just pull ourselves up by our cotton bootstraps and learn to live with the plantation gig economy.
