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Saturday, February 04, 2006
"It is the sound of inevitability" - slavery...by our cars.
I didn't have work today (Yes, work! That thing that resembles slavery, only that is reduced to less than $6 an hour). The thing that bothers me is that this week I'm working friday... and that's it! Four miserable hours! It's not only that I'm not getting the money I need, is that I have too much free time to spend too. You see... tomorrow I'm not working either... and neither the next day. I don't like that because I feel like I'm useless and no matter what I do on that free time, it is like always there's some left and I don't know how to spend it (Note: For those that don't like to work or don't like where they are working: I'm not bragging).
Today I was talking with a friend about work and money. He was talking about his plans of getting a new car (instead of his old and noisy falling-apart one). I said that I prefered to buy a car that doesn't require me a monthly payment (in fact, someone offered me one this week). This statement may sound naive or even selfish (or impossible), but it's true. Let me explain.
Right now, I'm not having a good time with work (I made it clear above), and I'm not obligated to stay at a place that I don't like or in a company that doesn't respect me as an employee(something call dignity). So, the moment I feel that I must go searching for higher oportunities, I have the freedom to do so. Now, if I have a car to pay (monthly), I'll have to stay no matter how bad they (or the costumers) treat me in order to spend almost my entire paycheck on it. Work is already slavery at $6 an hours! If the situation explained above would come true, then I would become that car's slave also. And my life and my money (and my dignity) would not be mine to control. I'll just have to stay put no matter if a costumer or my boss makes my life impossible.
Maybe I'm just blowing it out of proportion... or I'm just seeing things where there are none... or maybe it's "the sound of inevitability" of the future life that society makes for us. Enslaved by capitalism (work, money, etc.)... and by our cars.
Today I was talking with a friend about work and money. He was talking about his plans of getting a new car (instead of his old and noisy falling-apart one). I said that I prefered to buy a car that doesn't require me a monthly payment (in fact, someone offered me one this week). This statement may sound naive or even selfish (or impossible), but it's true. Let me explain.
Right now, I'm not having a good time with work (I made it clear above), and I'm not obligated to stay at a place that I don't like or in a company that doesn't respect me as an employee(something call dignity). So, the moment I feel that I must go searching for higher oportunities, I have the freedom to do so. Now, if I have a car to pay (monthly), I'll have to stay no matter how bad they (or the costumers) treat me in order to spend almost my entire paycheck on it. Work is already slavery at $6 an hours! If the situation explained above would come true, then I would become that car's slave also. And my life and my money (and my dignity) would not be mine to control. I'll just have to stay put no matter if a costumer or my boss makes my life impossible.
Maybe I'm just blowing it out of proportion... or I'm just seeing things where there are none... or maybe it's "the sound of inevitability" of the future life that society makes for us. Enslaved by capitalism (work, money, etc.)... and by our cars.
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