I just read a post on a social media site by someone complaining about "living like a slave" because they had to go to work for some large corporation, to buy the food they need to survive.
Just left me curious... and the following is written WITH a clear understanding of the stresses and strains which come with being a "wage slave", and having to run on the corporate treadmill.
They DO realize, of course, that if they did NOT work for some large corporation, or mom and pop small business, to earn the money to buy the food they need to survive, they WOULD have to plant it, grow it, reap it, kill it, or whatever it themselves?
And, I haven't even gotten to soap (make it yourself), cars (get a horse... if you can afford it), clothing (optional), cereal (can't just pluck it and eat it), Adidas (strap animal hide to your feet), coffee (OMG!), wine (OMG again), insulin (what's that?), and rocket ships (to escape to some better place?).
People complain about people who worry about the stock market.
They DO realize, of course, that retirement funds and insurance companies get their money from the stock market, right?
People complain about "big pharma", but they DO realize, that without "big pharma', some relative or close friend might be dead, right?
Survival isn't free. We get the goodies we get because someone, somewhere, is willing to "invest" in it.
Yes, it's a big, stressful, complicated mess sometimes, but, without it, we would be in mud huts grubbing for potatos. Of course, there wouldn't be AS MANY of us complicating the matter. But, then, living and dying might be much simpler... with the former being a much more "iffy" situation, and the latter being a sooner certainty for most who made it past step one.
The best arrow maker in the tribe probably ate better than some other members, NOT because he was the best hunter, but because he COULD make damn good arrows that helped the best hunters do THEIR job better.
Just thinking out loud.
Donovan Baldwin
I'll try to walk down the middle of the street on this philosophical matter while chining in on the life has gotten easier not harder in most aspects, but our problems today are very different from struggles for basics. People are bombarded by information that they don't know if its trustworthy or not. They are more isolated than every in human history and that makes people lonely. So they get on social media to find commonality with others. As someone who obviously embraces social media, I'm saddened at where it seems to be taking humanity...