Tuesday, February 19, 2019

"A job for every worker"

"A job for every worker" means a corporation paying every paycheck. This translates into quarter-over-quarter growth in profitability, an entire class of people and institutions who siphon money out of the economy into their own portfolios, and ultimately wage slavery.

Wage slavery because "a job for every worker" begins with the assumptions that everyone is supposed to have money to give to the holding companies that raise the rent on our apartments every year and sell us food-like substances to eat; that the way we get the money is by working "jobs" manufacturing, transporting, or selling consumer goods, the creation and disposal of which are destroying the biosphere; and that needing to have money means we have to "work" doing something that generates a profit whether that work needs, on grounds other than making money change hands, to be done or not.

Capitalism boils down to ripping off people weaker than yourself. Its motto is "Money is life." It is the opposite of community and thoroughly alienates us from the facts that we each participate in the web of life and our primary responsibility is to take care of it so that it will take care of us and future generations.

Mass global capitalist society has so thoroughly brainwashed untold millions of people into assuming that money is the highest possible value that changing this consciousness is the most difficult task we face.

The equivalent of a war mobilization to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy is obviously an absolute necessity, but using capitalism to get there will only prolong the pain of a society destroying itself for money.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Hi Bill, I'm a fellow renter in James Bay. I saw your letter to the editor today, which I thought was really good, which prompted me to look up your writing online. Hopefully we'll be able to meet up one of these days!