Employment is unethical
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 12:38 pm
Uniden has a really good thread going regarding unemployment a couple of years ago that can be consummated with his own article:
I read the original thread, but I found distasteful that some aspects weren't expanded upon as they should have.
So let me raise this question again: why should I be born into a world of coercion and slavery no different from the world of yore (although redefined to be more "politically correct") merely for the sake of labour that will consume the biggest portion of my life? If my life is going to end in death anyway which is (given an utopian like society) is the biggest lien repayment I have to make and the biggest tragedy (more of a salvation with the way society is today though), isn't it entirely reasonable for me to expect the world to OWE me something given the fact that it takes away SO MUCH from me already in the form of mental and physical pain and suffering (and every aspect of life associated with it) even before bringing the question of "employment" into the picture?
Why am I expected to earn a living? Why am I expected to go to school? Why am I expected to work at useless jobs (or careers - choose your pick) that I don't enjoy doing merely because the system I was born into happens to force me to do it? No matter what choice I make (employed, self-employed or what have you), I feel shackled, enslaved, and that I am merely changing forms of slavery and resignation is not an option unless one has a huge inheritance or wins the lottery. I am a slave to my masters or to the economy, how can that be tolerated?
What is it about the social darwinism inherent in our society that is so unforgiving to people who don't want to follow the value frameworks of society? I would like to have all the modern amenities of life (not necessarily a millionaire/billionaire but something "decent") without having to work for them and without having to aspire to them and without having to be forced to toil away endlessly, go to school and follow the rest of this "prescribed path" merely because everyone else is doing so (successfully or not)
I deeply hate work and school, I hate waking up every morning, I hate being lectured that I have to earn a living, I hate wishing for a higher salary to pay off my requests, I hate looking for jobs that I obviously hate just because I have to pay the bills, I hate listening to stupid lectures that teach nothing, I hate having to choose a profession when indolence is my natural right and I want to exercise it freely, I hate fretting about my future and whether I will be able to support myself or my family, I hate the prospect of being stuck all the time in one little spot on Earth doing the same rote work and then dying (and I never know when that could happen) without really experiencing anything.
Yes, I like to be lazy and not do anything. Yes, I could do it all my life. Would I? Probably at some point I would want to choose to do something I actually LIKE that is not WAGE SLAVERY that requies me to "look for a job" or "go to college" but merely to enjoy an activity without being penalized by my masters or the economic system in the form of lien/interest, poverty, homelessness and mental anguish among other things.
What kind of life is it? It's enough of a punishment to be born into this world, but instead of letting me enjoy my life till I cork out, why am I supposed to "repay" my "financial obligation" even though the prospect of death should have been enough of a punishment for the rest of my life. Why is this Puritan b.s. still permitted?
I maintain that employment is unethical and with that conclusion reached, nothing in life is actually worth anything and life is to be seen as a succession of moments that will hopefully end as soon as possible. And don't get me started about the cosmic insignificance and the global pointlessness of any endeavour.
If that sort of "gift" was offered to me in the beginning, I would fervently refuse and stay in the peaceful repose of nothingness.
p.s.
I am not really good at expressing my inner thoughts, but this will do for now.
I read the original thread, but I found distasteful that some aspects weren't expanded upon as they should have.
So let me raise this question again: why should I be born into a world of coercion and slavery no different from the world of yore (although redefined to be more "politically correct") merely for the sake of labour that will consume the biggest portion of my life? If my life is going to end in death anyway which is (given an utopian like society) is the biggest lien repayment I have to make and the biggest tragedy (more of a salvation with the way society is today though), isn't it entirely reasonable for me to expect the world to OWE me something given the fact that it takes away SO MUCH from me already in the form of mental and physical pain and suffering (and every aspect of life associated with it) even before bringing the question of "employment" into the picture?
Why am I expected to earn a living? Why am I expected to go to school? Why am I expected to work at useless jobs (or careers - choose your pick) that I don't enjoy doing merely because the system I was born into happens to force me to do it? No matter what choice I make (employed, self-employed or what have you), I feel shackled, enslaved, and that I am merely changing forms of slavery and resignation is not an option unless one has a huge inheritance or wins the lottery. I am a slave to my masters or to the economy, how can that be tolerated?
What is it about the social darwinism inherent in our society that is so unforgiving to people who don't want to follow the value frameworks of society? I would like to have all the modern amenities of life (not necessarily a millionaire/billionaire but something "decent") without having to work for them and without having to aspire to them and without having to be forced to toil away endlessly, go to school and follow the rest of this "prescribed path" merely because everyone else is doing so (successfully or not)
I deeply hate work and school, I hate waking up every morning, I hate being lectured that I have to earn a living, I hate wishing for a higher salary to pay off my requests, I hate looking for jobs that I obviously hate just because I have to pay the bills, I hate listening to stupid lectures that teach nothing, I hate having to choose a profession when indolence is my natural right and I want to exercise it freely, I hate fretting about my future and whether I will be able to support myself or my family, I hate the prospect of being stuck all the time in one little spot on Earth doing the same rote work and then dying (and I never know when that could happen) without really experiencing anything.
Yes, I like to be lazy and not do anything. Yes, I could do it all my life. Would I? Probably at some point I would want to choose to do something I actually LIKE that is not WAGE SLAVERY that requies me to "look for a job" or "go to college" but merely to enjoy an activity without being penalized by my masters or the economic system in the form of lien/interest, poverty, homelessness and mental anguish among other things.
What kind of life is it? It's enough of a punishment to be born into this world, but instead of letting me enjoy my life till I cork out, why am I supposed to "repay" my "financial obligation" even though the prospect of death should have been enough of a punishment for the rest of my life. Why is this Puritan b.s. still permitted?
I maintain that employment is unethical and with that conclusion reached, nothing in life is actually worth anything and life is to be seen as a succession of moments that will hopefully end as soon as possible. And don't get me started about the cosmic insignificance and the global pointlessness of any endeavour.
If that sort of "gift" was offered to me in the beginning, I would fervently refuse and stay in the peaceful repose of nothingness.
p.s.
I am not really good at expressing my inner thoughts, but this will do for now.