What Can I Do?
Or more accurately, what can we do?
#1. DO NOT OBEY
(And certainly don’t obey in advance)
#2. WITHDRAW FROM THE SYSTEM
(And start building our own)
Do your parents have money? Do you have a safety net? An inheritance? A trust?
If you can afford to not work, don’t. If can afford to quit your job, quit. Working 40+ hours a week, especially on top of a commute, significantly alienates workers not only from the fruits of their labor, but from their bodies, relationships, families, etc, but it gives us a false sense of stability and agency. Placated, satisfied and neutered, we become a part of the machinery of the very system that not only exploits us, but relies on a vast, violent and oppressive global supply chain that relies on unequal exchange from nations throughout the “global south” (aka the global majority).