An End to Wage Slavery
Our full production economy has resulted in a State where corporations have evolved into legal entities that have the constitutional right to engage in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Corporations actuate these rights through engaging in business activities which are designed to maximize profits through the sale of goods and services.
Investment is the tool which helps fuel this business activity. Shareholders invest money into corporations so they can receive a portion of the profits in the form of dividends. Since the corporation is under obligation to its shareholders to provide the highest possible Return on Investment (ROI), it seeks ways in which to cut costs and increase its profits. A few of the ways in which higher ROI’s can be achieved is by engaging in business practices which unfortunately degrade the environment, exploit wage labor, and promote a general culture of mass consumerism.
Having developed this legal mechanism (the corporation) whose primary objective in so called “life” is to cut costs, produce products and sell them at profit, seems at first rather elementary. If we broaden the impact of our understanding however, it can be seen that corporations have the ability to engage in such activities in perpetuity. Unlike the human development life cycle where one undergoes a period of maternal care, early childhood development, socialization, and actualization where one finally achieves a measure of productivity in life before decline and finally death… a corporation once established operates always in the prime of its life. In fact, across generations it uses the energy of those it employs to sustain itself. Through prolonged periods of time this persistence of mission enables the collection of wealth, power, and influence over society.
Does “With great power comes great responsibility” actually manifest itself in Corporate Responsibility? You can defend the point either way but the outcome remains the same: We have developed the global propagation of a market system defined by instigating consumption rather than developing our human condition.
If the production of goods, consumption of products, and employment of non-livable wage labor form the foundation of our existence, if this is all we can afford to be appropriated, then we have indeed become trapped. We sit lost and undeveloped. The gravity of our situation assuaged first by, the busy schedule which dominates our time and second by the comfort of the products which envelope our existence.
Under a full production economy, the masses are compelled, even trained into knowing nothing more than how to consume products and make minimum monthly payments towards more or perhaps “better” products. Working to pay off debt at interest, and working to pay off more debt at more interest becomes the perpetual cycle of life for the human, until debt and absolution of the aged are all that remain.
Such a myopic undertaking enslaves the individual and binds the mass into inaction. It binds them to the notion of perceived need, the wanton desire for unnecessary and extraneous goods & services. The American populace has in fact, been manipulated so thoroughly and worked so close to exhaustion that it has been left devoid of the necessary time required to become an active participant in its own Democracy.
Humans have become the absentee owners of the people’s government. We have become those who toil away on individual pursuits and stand steadfast in our dedication to bear the yoke of mortgage. Consumerism softens the appetite of knowledge. We suffer a lack of understanding…let us have the strength to learn. All the while; it is the corporation who operates in perpetuity. With a dedicated plan of action it leverages its longevity to influence the legislation of our government and in time, they indeed become our government with money and trans-generational supplicants to sustain the pace of progress. As such, we have an ill suited, underdeveloped, collective psychology where efficient means of production and excessive consumption become the influencing structure of our public policy. Our legislation becomes a legal environment which supports and encourages more of the same narrow minded approach to life.
Our corporate citizens have arrested development. Our public mass is too overworked to participate in the public process and our government in part has come to be controlled by a non-living legal entity. With legions of lobbyists pursuing a perpetual well defined agenda, corporate citizens have been instrumental in helping implement our current structure of government which provides only for the protection of property, credit, contracts, and manufacturing interests. This emphasis on protecting the afore mentioned criteria results in a stratified society which ultimately forms an oligarch. This oligarch and the rule of law with which it has codified its existence serve to protect the will of the majority from disturbing the secured position of the minority in power.
On a global scale, our society is composed of a wide and varied collection of nation states, each vying for control of scare resources and the economic compensation derived from the extraction of said resources. Such behavior results in clusters of “ruling class” individuals who most obviously wish to maintain the comfortable and secure positions they occupy. The cost of such opulence for the few results in mass ignorance of the many.
With property, credit, contracts and manufacturing interests forming the impetus behind public policy, those in control become less concerned with the functions or activities which seek to enhance our experience as human beings and become more focused on increasing the efficiency by which to gain material comfort and promote a society built around individual consumerism.
This fragmentation of individual pursuits and Deification of consumption increases the void of knowledge surrounding how to actuate the true purpose of government. It serves to weaken the State and ultimately contributes to the downfall of humans as a species. Without collective insight, education and attention… we expose unguarded our freedoms and leave untapped our opportunity to have a hand in our own governance.
I believe Justice lies in creating an environment which is conducive to all beings developing their full measure of potential. It is the role of the State to create such an assured environment and further foster the development of personal growth and social responsibility. These objectives should be backed, enforced and guaranteed by the ruling structure of government with all its inherent power of law.
It is the job of good government to fully develop the collective will and maturity of the populace. In this manner, we will evolve and strengthen our civic/social mentality. This in turn will help perpetuate further individual development and personal intellectual abilities which can then be used to serve the entire body of humanity as we endeavor to broaden our understanding.
Investment is the tool which helps fuel this business activity. Shareholders invest money into corporations so they can receive a portion of the profits in the form of dividends. Since the corporation is under obligation to its shareholders to provide the highest possible Return on Investment (ROI), it seeks ways in which to cut costs and increase its profits. A few of the ways in which higher ROI’s can be achieved is by engaging in business practices which unfortunately degrade the environment, exploit wage labor, and promote a general culture of mass consumerism.
Having developed this legal mechanism (the corporation) whose primary objective in so called “life” is to cut costs, produce products and sell them at profit, seems at first rather elementary. If we broaden the impact of our understanding however, it can be seen that corporations have the ability to engage in such activities in perpetuity. Unlike the human development life cycle where one undergoes a period of maternal care, early childhood development, socialization, and actualization where one finally achieves a measure of productivity in life before decline and finally death… a corporation once established operates always in the prime of its life. In fact, across generations it uses the energy of those it employs to sustain itself. Through prolonged periods of time this persistence of mission enables the collection of wealth, power, and influence over society.
Does “With great power comes great responsibility” actually manifest itself in Corporate Responsibility? You can defend the point either way but the outcome remains the same: We have developed the global propagation of a market system defined by instigating consumption rather than developing our human condition.
If the production of goods, consumption of products, and employment of non-livable wage labor form the foundation of our existence, if this is all we can afford to be appropriated, then we have indeed become trapped. We sit lost and undeveloped. The gravity of our situation assuaged first by, the busy schedule which dominates our time and second by the comfort of the products which envelope our existence.
Under a full production economy, the masses are compelled, even trained into knowing nothing more than how to consume products and make minimum monthly payments towards more or perhaps “better” products. Working to pay off debt at interest, and working to pay off more debt at more interest becomes the perpetual cycle of life for the human, until debt and absolution of the aged are all that remain.
Such a myopic undertaking enslaves the individual and binds the mass into inaction. It binds them to the notion of perceived need, the wanton desire for unnecessary and extraneous goods & services. The American populace has in fact, been manipulated so thoroughly and worked so close to exhaustion that it has been left devoid of the necessary time required to become an active participant in its own Democracy.
Humans have become the absentee owners of the people’s government. We have become those who toil away on individual pursuits and stand steadfast in our dedication to bear the yoke of mortgage. Consumerism softens the appetite of knowledge. We suffer a lack of understanding…let us have the strength to learn. All the while; it is the corporation who operates in perpetuity. With a dedicated plan of action it leverages its longevity to influence the legislation of our government and in time, they indeed become our government with money and trans-generational supplicants to sustain the pace of progress. As such, we have an ill suited, underdeveloped, collective psychology where efficient means of production and excessive consumption become the influencing structure of our public policy. Our legislation becomes a legal environment which supports and encourages more of the same narrow minded approach to life.
Our corporate citizens have arrested development. Our public mass is too overworked to participate in the public process and our government in part has come to be controlled by a non-living legal entity. With legions of lobbyists pursuing a perpetual well defined agenda, corporate citizens have been instrumental in helping implement our current structure of government which provides only for the protection of property, credit, contracts, and manufacturing interests. This emphasis on protecting the afore mentioned criteria results in a stratified society which ultimately forms an oligarch. This oligarch and the rule of law with which it has codified its existence serve to protect the will of the majority from disturbing the secured position of the minority in power.
On a global scale, our society is composed of a wide and varied collection of nation states, each vying for control of scare resources and the economic compensation derived from the extraction of said resources. Such behavior results in clusters of “ruling class” individuals who most obviously wish to maintain the comfortable and secure positions they occupy. The cost of such opulence for the few results in mass ignorance of the many.
With property, credit, contracts and manufacturing interests forming the impetus behind public policy, those in control become less concerned with the functions or activities which seek to enhance our experience as human beings and become more focused on increasing the efficiency by which to gain material comfort and promote a society built around individual consumerism.
This fragmentation of individual pursuits and Deification of consumption increases the void of knowledge surrounding how to actuate the true purpose of government. It serves to weaken the State and ultimately contributes to the downfall of humans as a species. Without collective insight, education and attention… we expose unguarded our freedoms and leave untapped our opportunity to have a hand in our own governance.
I believe Justice lies in creating an environment which is conducive to all beings developing their full measure of potential. It is the role of the State to create such an assured environment and further foster the development of personal growth and social responsibility. These objectives should be backed, enforced and guaranteed by the ruling structure of government with all its inherent power of law.
It is the job of good government to fully develop the collective will and maturity of the populace. In this manner, we will evolve and strengthen our civic/social mentality. This in turn will help perpetuate further individual development and personal intellectual abilities which can then be used to serve the entire body of humanity as we endeavor to broaden our understanding.
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