Wage Slavery

An interesting concept to explore, is how in our American society there is a sort of wage slavery.

When you think about it, having a wage means you offer your freedoms up in order to work for some entity in order to produce a product or service. As am employee, you can be disciplined, managed, etc, and if you do not comply with what you contracted to sell yourself as, then you are let go.

If you are let go enough, you will have difficulty getting employment at anything but the basest of jobs, therefore it is in your interest to comply. Those who don't comply end up homeless and jobless.

Think of all the movies you've watched about factory life, various difficult jobs, life in the military, life in any corporate or retail job and you begin to see that the entire system is meant to drain you of your creativity and make you pliant and productive as whatever your occupation is. Even the goal of getting retirement at various places for a pension means you will have to offer to work for upwards of 10-20 years for a place. In essence, the system has been set up so that you make yourself a slave.

The exception to this is creativity and entrepreneurism. You can avoid the system by going out on your own as an artist or an entrepreneur, you avoid the system by being beholden to really no one other than anyone else who believes in what you are doing.