Every week I have to constrain myself because I have too many thoughts to even write. It is no mystery that we are living in a strange reality that nobody ever thought possible. I’m sure you do not need me to tell you, it’s all just really exhausting.
That is the point I want to talk about today. The world is tired. Well, at least the working-half is. It’s no surprise that people are starting to feel a tad worn out given how much tragedy has occurred over the past two years of dystopia to stop the spread. There is a weird tension in the air that seems to be slowly being replaced with complete and total exhaustion. People need a break. A real one this time.
It’s tragically funny because there will be some people who say, “Didn’t everyone get a break for a year?” My estimation is that those people are very unlikely to read this blog, to begin with. You know what people I mean of course. The ones who saw last year as a break for people to focus on things that “matter” while they collected free checks and only worried about how big the numbers on the TV screen got.
I’m referring to the people who have been waiting for the payment to increase dramatically before they consider putting themselves out to provide for their community. The ones who believe that minimum wage should be enough to live off for the rest of their lives. The individuals who will happily sit idle while the world breaks themselves to support the ones that simply just watch it all crumble.
There happens to be an incredibly strange correlation between the individuals mentioned above, and the same ones who call for more government control over their lives. It is almost as if they don’t want to have to work, to begin with…
But I digress. I could go off on a complete and total tirade about people free-loading off of the system, but then I would sound like most of our parents who came to the same conclusions. That is not why you are here, you are here for something thought-provoking. I would be a Fool to leave you with anything you haven’t already heard or thought about before.
There is a crazy thought I have been having in the back of my mind for over a year now, and I fear we are getting incredibly close to watching it come true.
What if all of the actual workers….. quit?
Now obviously those out there working understand that this would be a very dangerous thing. That is the reason they are still working, despite the fact that 90% of the actual workers are incredibly undervalued. Doesn’t matter what industry, there is a very likely chance that the number of dollars coming in, likely does not match the stress, labor, and overall responsibility placed at any of our feet. We watch daily as our friends and family have come to a realization that the water is rising, and unless we make enough to stay above, we have to find a new boat.
It used to be that people were satisfied with just having a boat, to begin with. The boat in this case is a job or even a career. So long as you had an income, you could make things work. Of course in these times, the average cost of goods and services that humans require was far lower than that we face now in our modern era. Especially when the methods of receiving money have been skewed pretty severely. There are people who receive their living, by providing nothing to the system that takes a lot from those who provide everything. Seems off if you ask me.
We all know too many people who provide their heart and soul in their work, only to have everything stripped away and distributed among people who clamor that their earnings are a sign of greed, not of effort. People are so quick to yell eat the rich, as they drink Starbucks and chant from their Iphones about equal outcomes. It’s all backward. So that is why I bring it up again… What if everyone quits?
It’s a question that you see daily in all the headlines. The great resignation they say. People quitting the jobs that matter and moving to become influencers who can turn crazy profits for next to nothing of benefit to their fellow humans. Why become a police officer when you can become a Youtube star?
Children grow up daily wanting to become the next MrBeast, or Pewdiepie or heaven forbid Logan Paul. Gone are the days of encouraging the youth to seek responsibility in their environment. Now we instead seek acceptance and compliance with a false reality.
My daily worry is the harsh return to reality that these children will someday face as the biggest problems will no longer be if their Amazon packages arrive on time. Or if their neighborhoods are safe now that the Police and Firefighters have all abdicated their responsibility under the crushing weight of nihilism as Fast Food employees now share a similar wage.
“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.”
-George Carlin
I think there is something boiling in the working class. I’m seeing the signs daily. This is no cry for “Workers of the world to unite.” No this is something else completely, This is a realization. A great awakening if you will.
When the absurdity of our environment finally matches with our view of reality. When the workers finally turn around, look behind them and see over half the population sitting on their couch staring at their phone with a full stomach and a smile on their face. When the people who hold the world up, realize they are being used and abused by a system that relies COMPLETELY on them.
When all of the positions we rely on daily will all come to the same collective thought that I see business owners, military members, nurses, doctors, service workers, police officers, journalists, financial representatives, lawyers, landlords, and basically every working contributing member of society start to say…
What if we all quit?
What happens next?
Thank you for reading,
-The Young Fool
