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Every Bit of Unnecessary Production Is A Waste of Life and An Abuse of Our Earth
We need healthy food, shelter, medicine and a few more things. All other compelled work is a crime against humanity and Nature.
Why do we forget this? Why do we forget our lives are short, miraculous and precious? Why do we never question work?
Yes, even radicals don’t question work. Here’s what we believe—people of nearly every political and economic and ideological viewpoint: We all need to work—until we can’t. It’s a moral obligation. We need to avoid free riders. We need to do something to keep ourselves busy, and to give our lives meaning.
We do need justice and meaning. But work doesn’t provide that. Work that doesn’t produce what’s truly needed (like healthy food) or truly valuable (like vaccines) is foolish at best.
And in most cases, it is literally destruction. We rape the Earth of resources and steal the time (that is the lives) of people to use them as labor.
This is nearly always for the benefit of a narcissistic elite, to help serve the limitless greed and power lust of dictators, plutocrats, and other privileged people. In return, all those working people get—if they are lucky—is enough to survive another day.
The elites begrudge us even that. At the moment, they are further impoverishing working people and stealing more of the wealth WE produce to use for mass murder, violence and intimidation. This is not an exaggeration or hyperbole.
People are being fired and impoverished, and the money is being shoveled to military profiteers, to ICE, and to every form of abuse and domination MAGA and other thugs can think of. And it’s being shoveled into the bank accounts of our criminal rulers.
There isn’t an actual public servant in sight.
To Overcome This, We Need To Open Our Eyes and Exercise Our Imaginations
Einstein famously noted that imagination is more important than intelligence. To solve some problems, you MUST look at them in a startlingly different way.
New ideas can be jarring, but that’s because we’ve been stuck in a narrow groove of bad assumptions.
