Our Produce-or-Die Culture Is Killing Us - And We're Idiotically Grinning and Bearing It »
Posted By ameliog 2 months ago in Business & FinanceWe've been reduced to "human assets" in a relentless economic machine. And we can't even complain: appearing cheerful is vital when all of life is monitored by an employer.
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In ...
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And one of the major chains tieing us to the oppressive madness of the time clock is health care.
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I would be working hard to make a living self-employed, but my wife is a cancer survivor, and I have a medical history as well, and I know full well that if I stop working for the man, we lose our insurance, and if we get it back, ever, our health conditions will likely be "pre-existing conditions.
So I get up every day, put on a dress shirt and slacks, punch the time clock and take yet another bite of the crap sandwich.
It ain't right.
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