The Grinding Economy

People are DRIVEN, INSPIRED, MOTIVATED, PUSHED, SUBJUGATED, COERCED practically into working and earning and grinding themselves to push the gears of economy. Damn pushers. Damn them. They have incrusted into our minds the paradigm that being happy is working really hard all your life to finally be able to afford a car, a wife, a house, a dog, children, a fucking vacation to Florida or a camping trip once or twice a year.

Ever since I grew up. All my life. The tacitly assumed goals of worth in society were to make money, have more things, be good at what you do, be better than others, implied by grade comparison in school. What did parents do… they pretty much just worked. Why did they work? To make money. Was it better to have more money? Yes, of course. Why couldn't we have everything we wanted at the supermarket? Because of money. So it's good to have money? Yes, but you don't go about telling everyone you have money. Why? Because it's rude to those with less money. So people with money show it only subtly, because it still feels good to them to feel superior but they don't want to be criticized by their rudeness. And so the people who don't have money only subtly and silently resent it, with little obvious indication that they resented it. Because they might feel humiliated by acknowledging that they don't have as much money. And why does that humiliate them? Because they've seen others before them be humiliated by having less money, it's the thing to do. So it builds up and it gnaws at them from the inside. And through silence, through obvious and silent acknowledgment, everyone ends up convinced that having money is the thing to do. And how to get it? Doesn't matter. Whatever. What does it matter, if it gets you the money? Because with money, you can get whatever. Right? So just get the money, and then do whatever the hell you want.

So sometimes people go through this uncountably-vast-and-large-dimensional world, modeling it almost unidimensionally. Their one prized selected feature: money.

Not entirely, of course. Our nature compels us to include features such as pain, discomfort, sex, hunger, excretion, and such basic needs into our model. But those are just the basics. There is SO MUCH MORE. That so many of us sadly has forgotten, or ignored their whole lives… that is just THERE for the taking. Happiness, wind, colors, laughter, wonder. They aren't the supplements to a life of hoarding money. They are the flavors of life. Include them in your life. Include them in your model - use them to guide your life, just as along with money, which is indeed an important feature but NOT THE ONLY ONE. Know that diversifying your interests gets you a much better chance of reaching your goals. It works in stock trading (or so they say), and it works in life. You should know this, all of you people who understand these words of dimensionality. Higher dimensionality allows for so much more freedom, so many more possibilities. And besides, money is so zealously sought after these days, it's a limited resource, so you might be better off removing your dependency on that bottleneck. And it's such a fad… don't fall for it. Include it in your life, but don't live for it. Don't build your life assuming that you will be earning a given amount of money the whole time, because then you will be forced to. Live freely. Be happy. Move the gears of economy, but don't waste yourself on them. Enjoy :).