Reply #69: It certainly explains why the elderly are scooped out of the way, the minute they stop working

[liberation]

or why the disabled are ignored and left to fend for themselves, the minute they don't go out of their way with super human efforts to become "productive" members of society.


If you are not adding to someone's bottom line, you are useless in this country. Most Americans do not realize they will spend the majority of their lives working to make someone else richer. Very very very very few people in this country actually get to realize their full potential, and contribute back what nature gifted them with. Regardless of all that BS PR Americans are fed about the "follow your dreams, go forth an chase the American dream." We're a society which will spend more money in advertising those ideals, than in actually investing that same money in making sure people can indeed follow their dreams.

I don't think many Americans understand that being forced to work for the sake of working... is the very definition of slavery. Sure, the gadgets are much better, and the entertainment has been upgraded a bit. But the main reason why you woke up this morning and are working 8/9/10+ hours today, regardless of how much you hate it, is because you have no choice. You can't take off today and experience your own country. You can't actually go forth and do what you like to do. You can't stay at home just because today you feel like crap, or would like to explore something else you were curious about. You can't spend more time with your kids, and make sure they are developing like actual decent human beings who know they have a parent who loves them dearly. You can't spend a bit more time with the love of your life and explore the passion you feel for each other. You can't go and help your parents who may be feeling sick today, You can't go to the library and read about that thing you dream about last night and which you felt it was worth exploring. You can't stop and help that poor homeless person you just passed by. Just because the range is so much larger than you need to drive a car to go from your barrack to the "field," do not think for a second you are not in a plantation.

Rather than using technology to make our lives easier, and allow us to actually explore our potential as humans. We decided to just use technology to allow a very small and select group of humans very wealthy. We're as a species stuck in a feedback cycle: we work for work's sake. We develop more technology, so that we can develop more technology.

We have absolutely no plan as a species. And that is tragic. Instead, we decided that an "invisible friend" in the skies is telling us what to do and how to behave, and we trust an "invisible hand" decides our whole existence in order to comply with the whims of the "market." We're no much better than monkeys, if you really think about it. Except that most monkeys may have more control over their own existence, than we humans do.