The thoughts expressed in the video attached to this Substack relate to a few recent ponderings.
The universal rule that reduces the value of a thing the more of it there is (e.g. time, money, people) and how it has become normalised to sell an hour of our lives for as little as two cups of coffee
A strong, British work ethos of not draining off the system and paying your way is now funding an economy being used to strip us of our sovereignty and liberty
While I begin with calm ponderings, I found myself devolving into a typical rant, made all the more effective by a weird side quiff that developed, ensuring I looked the part of a deranged lunatic screaming from a mountaintop.
As a snippet of the video above, I’ll elaborate on the first point here in this writing, to explain my frustration that we’ve now become a species of intelligent, creative and compassionate people, who are content at spending our days often doing things we don’t enjoy because we’ve been tricked into thinking we must work in order to pay the countless taxes that our governments throw at us.
We’ve been convinced to be a society of wants, so that we’re motivated to go out and labour for the money to be able to buy everything marketed at us.
We spends our days away from loved ones, returning in the evening with a lack of energy and having traded away each of those precious hours of life for as little as a few cups of coffee.
Having recently discovered a love for growing my own food; and learning that the system, through which our quality of life is drained in the form of paying endless taxes, is a fiction, I’m feeling more optimistic (despite the apparent sense of hopelessness I portay in the video!) that our future will see us overthrow our tyrannical governments.
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Selling Hours of Life for the Cost of a Coffee