Yeah I know it’s not what anyone wants on a friday, but it’s kind of what made me think about this again. I find it kind of weird why so many people are clinging so on to capitalism, when I think about it at least I just see the bad behaviour it encourage, not only to a single person, but to our society at large. Unions fight for workers, and ensure things like having controlled work-days, and weekends that we can enjoy, while capitalism just is a race for more exploitation of the worker class, shuffeling value from people who have little to the people that have a lot. As we fight for things like having some leisure time, having a possibility to take breaks to gather our thoughts, that’s something that capitalism can’t allow. What is so often forgotten is that the time that you have off either a short break to gather your thoughts or a day off, are the times that I have actually come up with solutions to problems I have struggled with a long time. Downtime isn’t just time where work isn’t done, but recouperation, time to gather our thoughts or let them stew in the unconscious.

Happiness is something we all strive for, but money is not a measure of happiness, I mean sure, you will not be that happy if you don’t have the means to support yourself, but that’s not the money, the money are just tokens that you get for work done or more, the worth that some person of the ruler class has decided that you’re worth, and yet, often the lower rewarded tiers of workers are the one that does the vital work, while the one on top just look at them as replaceable peons. Sadly this is not something that is easy to turn around, as the Imperial nations like the US are fighting tooth and nail against worker’s right, propagandising their own population to make sure they are scared of the “commies” attacking either openly or hidden behind other stuff nations that try to stand against their ideals of conquest and shuffeling value from developing nations into their economy to keep it running for a while still.

We would need less if we would actually care about the people living in a country, and their wellbeing, rather than fueling the powerlust and never ending sickly hunger of the powerful, wanting more, more power, more money, more influence over the proletariate which they look down at like not even humans, but numbers on a spreadsheet, pawns to move around on a board or dispensers of value, they put in a as little as they can get away with, and get so much more value back, for us actually doing the work we don’t even know how much our work really is worth, but for sure way more than the effort we put into it.

If we look at popular institutions and things that people actually value, like libraries, it’s a near perfect illustration of what communistic ideals give us, they help people learn, you don’t have to have a specific status or anything to make use of them. We own them together, and we can make use of books or a quiet place to take some time off. Or a park, a place where you can enjoy the sights, take a break from the rat-race of life and a little breather, because that’s real value, things that they haven’t taken away from us.. ..yet at least.

If you haven’t thought of it, what is it that is so scary about communism? What’s bad about working together, and to then share the value that we create, we will find that when we aren’t stuffing the ruling class with foise gras and another private jet plane that we actually can do so much more than what we have that we thought, we will see that the work that we do matters, that it achieves something. And really we don’t live to work, we work to be able to live, and working for something that you see actually matters is so much more fulfilling, than just plugging away on another day doing some mine numbign task that doesn’t matter to you.

In addition to this comes the unequal exchange of value with the developing nations, as the ruling class had to concede some things to workers in their own countries, they turned their wage stealing ambitions towards countries where people struggle more, because desperate people who struggle are like gold for them, it’s a point where they can extract value without much pushback, and the workers again are the ones that have to suffer.

While there isn’t that much we can do, we can unionise, we can make ourselves heard, and show solidarity, because the frequent clashes between us, the small quibbles that they encourage us to put time and effort into, be it someone’s sexuality, their gender or the skin colour of the person living next door, that is nothing else than making sure that we fight each other rather than realising what we are letting them do to us. So let’s bide our time until we can pack out the guilliotines again.