Employment: The New Legal Slavery!
Every job requires interactions with people
who, given a free choice, we would carefully avoid.
We are all easily hurt. We might not be keen to
admit it, but a single cruel word or snide remark can throw us off balance for
the day. In private life, we can show our wounds. We can complain, we sulk, we
argue. But at work, we can do nothing. We are at the mercy of others, with very
little protection against low level infringements of our dignity, peace of mind
and self-esteem.
Work makes us submit to power. The person in
charge doesn’t have to care about our feelings. We have exchanged our right to
communicate our pain for a monthly paycheck.
In short we are laborious laborous for a bottomless
consumerism culture. The corporations make sure you retire when you can barely
have the energy to use your otherwise “exploited” hard earned money, and you
are unwillingly wheeled to a nursing home the moment your memory shows any slightness slowness of thought and indecisiveness
that comes with age.
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