This sums up how I’ve felt since I left school, and especially lately:
“Only when the last tree has died,
the last river has been poisoned
and the last fish has been caught,
will we realize that we can’t eat money.”
– Cree proverb
And my input: does nobody else think it is sick, morally unjust and hypocritical of todays so-called “advanced” “civilised” and “democratic” society, full of so-called “free-speech” and “choices”, that we as human’s don’t have the basic option to choose to live our lives without money? To live our lives fully and as we want to, without the bullshit propoganda of so-called “success” in working 9-5 every day for 45 years of your fucking life. 45 years, that’s if you’re lucky! Let’s generously assume that the average man working a 9-5 job is earning £32k a year, with 28 days of holiday, an hour for lunch every day and weekends off. £8-9k of that will be spent on income tax alone, let alone bills, transport costs, maintenance, gifts, items for yourself, VAT tax on mostly everything at 15-17.5%. You’re waking up at 7 or 8 every day, driving your car to work, getting stressed after 7 hours of work, coming home at 5:30-6, cooking your food and eating it, by which point it’s at least 7PM, now you finally have about 3 hours to do what you want with your life, before you must finish up for the night, make sure everything is right, and go to bed, ready to continue the cycle. Three hours a day. You’re being taxed nearly half your wage, you’ve got bills coming out of your ass, and you’re spending the rest of your money on other people or shit you don’t really need (that has its own tax associated with it). You’re working 140 hours a month and maybe 60 of those, if not more, are for nothing. You’re working for fuck all, you’re working those hours for absolutely fuck all as far as you are concerned. You’ve got just 3 hours a day to yourself and 60 or more hours of your month are wasted on an in-denial, oppressive government system. Money is a corrupt system, why can’t I just have the right to choose and live life my own way? Why isn’t it a viable option to simply live without money? The people who would want to do this would, for the most part, have the right idea and mindset to make it work, so why is it not seen as a legitimate lifestyle? Sure, people do it, but it’s only a hardcore few who go against the grain, not a solid choice in life that everyone gets, of “Yes, I’ll live soullessly for money to buy inanimate objects” or “No, I’ll live for something money can’t buy: my life, youth and happiness. Because once they are gone, I can’t get them back. I can’t afford to waste a moment.”. It’s a rhetorical question of course; I know the answer. It’s money. Greed. The desire for power. The problem is money, and somewhat fittingly, it causes people to force the lifestyle of hollow need for money on others.
Just a thought…
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