After working 8 straight days, I finally have a day off…
and being unable to post, I spent that time just thinking…
after working for those 8 days straight, I was really struggling with
the why?. Why was I killing myself for 23 bucks an hour…for a retirement
that statistically will only last for 8 years after I retire… that is bullshit…
and factor in the ill-health I, once again statistically will get, my
8 years of retirement will be consumed by my physical ailments…
physical ailments I am already seeing… bad back, hips,
feet problems ( I stand on my feet for 8 hours a day)…
after talking to a recruiter, I am basically unhireable due to my age, (I am 62)
so, I have only two choices, retire and lose quite a bit of money based on
my retirement age (I am basically too young) and the fact is if, if I can
find a job, it will be at minium wage with no or little benefits…
there is no benefit for me to do so… so I am stuck in a crappy job…
but once again, why should I be killing myself for such a crappy job?
One might say, but Kropotkin, you are being a “productive” citizen…
and productive, which is code for killing oneself for your society,
country, culture…and of course most important of all, killing oneself
for the greater good of businesses, and their all inclusive mission statement
which is this…
We will do anything it takes to make profits… even if it means killing both our
employees and our customers… profits over life is our mission statement…
and this is true in every capitalist business… for capitalism is the search
for the all might dollar…no matter who it kills…
and therein lies my problem… I no longer wish to be cannon fodder
for business or even the capitalistic system… now those who attack me
for being a “communist” don’t ever defend capitalism because it cannot
be defended… they attack those who have the gall to question the value
of capitalism, but they never offer up any defense of capitalism nor do
they ever offer up any other possibilities to capitalism…what other choices
do we have besides capitalism? and the logical answer is some form of
socialism or even a full blown communism society…
now my own preference is Anarchism, but I see that to be a century or more
away… its time will come… but I have to focus on today and in today’s world,
we have capitalism which has create such problems that we may not
be able to solve them… such as global warming, pollution, income inequality,
population growth, extinction of entire species… to name a few of the problems
caused by and exacerbated by our slavish devotion to a failed economic system
like capitalism…
so we must engage into some exploration of other economic systems or
even go “ad hoc” and change some if not all of the failed capitalistic system…
but Kropotkin, there is no need to overhaul the capitalistic system…
what, are you blind? can you not see the massive failures that capitalism has
put us into? The poverty of billions while we see a few people have as
much wealth as half the world’s population…
income inequality is a sure sign of the failure of capitalism…
less than 500 people having as much wealth as 3.5 billion people,
is not a sign of capitalism success…it is a sign of failure…
and so I begin to question my own personal role in maintaining
a system that is so clearly devoted to destroying my life…
making my life in the capitalistic system nothing more then
cannon fodder…I have more value then that and you have have more
value then that…
let us begin by the simple understanding that capitalism has failed
and go from there…
Kropotkin