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Today the average work week is 47 hours, 9.4 hours a day. We're expected to then pay a large portion of it back (or else) in income tax, we also must pay (property tax) for the privilege of living in our own home, then if that all wasn't enough we're taxed with every purchase we make, and to add on all of that we got things like forced car insurance (or else) license plates fees, sticker fees, the list goes on and on.
ALL this we MUST pay (or else)
Let me put it all in comparison for you. Here's a little tid bit on how much we use to spend working (naturally,) vs corporate slaves with a billion forced fees.....
Before Western influence changed daily life, Kung men, who live in the Kalahari, hunted from two to two and a half days a week, with an average workweek of fifteen hours. Women gathered for about the same period of time each week. In fact, one day’s work supplied a woman’s family with vegetables for the next three days. Throughout the year both men and women worked for a couple of days, then took a couple off to rest and play games, gossip, plan rituals, and visit. . . . It would appear that the workweek in the old days beats today’s banker’s hours by quite a bit. This suggests that three hours a day is all that we must spend working for survival. One can imagine that in preindustrial times this pattern would make sense. Life was more whole back then, when “work” blended into family time, religious celebrations, and play. Then came the “labor-saving” Industrial Revolution and the compartmentalization of life into “work” and “nonwork”—with work taking an ever-bigger bite out of the average person’s day.
Hunters and gatherers spent on average 15 hours a week working without any FORCED expenses like tax.
FIFTEEN HOURS vs 50, plus all the forced fees...
Is the pursuit of shiny things: big house, fancy cars, all the latest gadgets really worth it? At what point do we call it for what it is?
We're slaves BY DEFINITION, living under a feudalistic system, and hardly anyone is even aware. We're being taken advantage of, and we allow it, even defend it...
If you enjoy your shackles so be it, but me personally would like to live free with a minimalist lifestyle.
TOO FUCKING BAD I AM GIVEN NO CHOICE!
feu·dal·ism
/ˈfyo͞odlˌizəm/
Learn to pronounce
noun
noun: feudalism
ALL this we MUST pay (or else)
Let me put it all in comparison for you. Here's a little tid bit on how much we use to spend working (naturally,) vs corporate slaves with a billion forced fees.....
Before Western influence changed daily life, Kung men, who live in the Kalahari, hunted from two to two and a half days a week, with an average workweek of fifteen hours. Women gathered for about the same period of time each week. In fact, one day’s work supplied a woman’s family with vegetables for the next three days. Throughout the year both men and women worked for a couple of days, then took a couple off to rest and play games, gossip, plan rituals, and visit. . . . It would appear that the workweek in the old days beats today’s banker’s hours by quite a bit. This suggests that three hours a day is all that we must spend working for survival. One can imagine that in preindustrial times this pattern would make sense. Life was more whole back then, when “work” blended into family time, religious celebrations, and play. Then came the “labor-saving” Industrial Revolution and the compartmentalization of life into “work” and “nonwork”—with work taking an ever-bigger bite out of the average person’s day.
Hunters and gatherers spent on average 15 hours a week working without any FORCED expenses like tax.
FIFTEEN HOURS vs 50, plus all the forced fees...
Is the pursuit of shiny things: big house, fancy cars, all the latest gadgets really worth it? At what point do we call it for what it is?
We're slaves BY DEFINITION, living under a feudalistic system, and hardly anyone is even aware. We're being taken advantage of, and we allow it, even defend it...
If you enjoy your shackles so be it, but me personally would like to live free with a minimalist lifestyle.
TOO FUCKING BAD I AM GIVEN NO CHOICE!
feu·dal·ism
/ˈfyo͞odlˌizəm/
Learn to pronounce
noun
noun: feudalism
- the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection.
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