During the thousands of years of monetary system, most workers have been paid just enough to make it necessary that they return to work, even when higher wages have been possible. How else can the wage-payer keep the workers coming back? If the employees received wages that allowed them to work a few weeks and then take time off for a world cruise, an extended vacation, or some other luxuries, production schedules would suffer. Even the highly educated and affluent who live in expensive homes and drive expensive cars have to appear at a place of work if they wish to maintain their standard of living. All of us, even top executives, are slaves of the monetary system. Most of us lack a meaningful existence. We stay at jobs we hate in order to buy more gadgets we don’t need, or to build up earned time off so we can escape from the reason we need a vacation in the first place. In the workaday world, many of us are frantically trying to stay afloat, making payments on cars, homes, and material possessions that enslave the body and mind in an endless attempt to secure our future. Although many take home more money today, inflation has decreased purchasing power for the most people. We are caught up in the game of getting ahead without thinking about what or whom we’re trying to get ahead of. Most of us do not take time to think about our own lives and how we relate to one another, or to what and who we really are. Even those who achieve economic security are addicted to the media’s image of personal success. When we achieve our first economic goal, we want more – the cabin cruiser, the vacation house, and the trip abroad. In the monetary world even our dreams are rationed. We start out with “If only I can make a decent living.” “If we achieve that, we progress to “If only we had the little house in the country to get away to, then we’d happy”. At each successive gain in this endless chain of dissatisfaction, we acquire more and more material wealth, but it’s never enough to make us happy. We live in a world of unfulfilled dreams in which we never really come to know or understand what constitutes a meaningful life. - JF
Posted on: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 20:43:55 +0000
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