Problem with Capitalism

Problem with Capitalism

The practice of working 40 - 50 hours a week in a capitalist employment means that all your human relationships for most of the day are with coworkers or clients.  Most all of your daily interactions are spent acting as a company employee.  In that context, all your relationships are based on some form of  economic competition.  All your associations are with commercial agents in a business network.

You spend almost no time that is not goal directed. You have no time for, or interest in, spontaneous activity or "goofy" ideas. You have no conversations that are not purposeful. You do not spend time idly musing "fantastic thoughts."  You do not just "hang out" with people whose company you find enjoyable for no purpose at all.

As a result, you have almost no genuine, altruistic, loving, mutually supportive, or authentic friendships at all. You do not engage in small talk with strangers. You do not goof off.

You live your entire life on the competitive edge of the economic playing field in modern business.  You never  relax or let down your guard.  You never stop playing the game.  You never stop performing a role.  You might not win.  You might lose the contest.  You might not get promoted.

You become so used to this manner of thought that you don't realize you have no real friends, no genuine neighbors, and no family to speak of.  You don't even realize that nobody cares if you are dead or alive.  You have been trained to be a robot and you perform the function very well.

You live an inauthentic life. Your real identity was almost thoroughly destroyed.  The real "you" was pretty much killed off a long time ago and nobody even cared.  It was all planned ahead of time, by other people, before you were even born.  You didn't have a chance.  Too bad.

Good Luck now...


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William Schaeffer