You'll have to agree that almost all jobs in the service industry are nothing more than modern day slavery. Such as, fast food and unskilled factory labor jobs. Most people don't fathom the idea that typical non-professional jobs are a modern day form of slavery, because they've grown up not knowing any other way. They can't accept the idea because the first thing that pops into their minds concerning slavery is the American Civil War, and the Emancipation Proclamation, and so on.
Please bear with me and I'll explain more.
You load sixteen tons, what do you get, another day older and deeper in debt. Saint Peter don't you call me, cause I cant go, I owe my soul to the company store.
Those lyrics hold true today as they did yesterday.
We have a habit of associating slavery with its most harsh, problematic form: Chattel Slavery, where a person is owned by someone forever and whose children and children's children are automatically enslaved.
We all since Elementary through High School have been taught about slavery in this form. We were taught in history classes about other cultures enslaving people from the Romans to African tribes to European empires all the way up to the formation of the great experiment, the United States of America.
When you go through the drive-thru of any fast food joint in America, or go into and set down at any restaurant, you don't see any ball and chains attached to them. The workers are there because they are being paid wages to perform specific tasks, aka, working for a living.
If you ever get the time and you can ask any restaurant or fast food worker, specific questions, such as, by the time your bills are all paid, how much do you have left over, and they all tell the same story.
After I get my paycheck, by the time I pay all my bills and buy food it's pretty much gone.
I can't save money, because it takes all I make to pay bills.
It's the same story over and over anywhere you go.
For factory workers, bank tellers, security guards gas station and quick mart type workers, they all will tell the same story.
In our modern times today it's unthinkable that working for wages is a bad thing. problem is, the majority of the population, which covers all demographics, you have people that are only one paycheck away from homelessness. Speaking of homelessness, there are increasing numbers of folks that are homeless that work in any manner of occupations previously mentioned.
In ancient Rome for instance, Cicero wrote "whoever trades his labor for coin, sells himself and puts himself in the rank of slaves"
The reason so many people came to this conclusion is because of the concept that basically renting yourself to someone/employer is no different than selling yourself to someone or an employer. The employer dictates the wage, which is in all cases less than it should be for the value of the work because of the greed of the employer to make a profit.
All modern workplaces if were so classified as a government would be a dictatorship. As an employee you sign away all your rights to a hierarchical system that follows a chain of command from the top down through various levels of supervision eventually to the workers themselves. Bosses then in turn tell the employees what to do, how to do it, and critique their productivity. if they fail, they can be terminated at any time for cause.
Then you always hear this, since the employee voluntarily signed a contract, he is acting as his own free agent, and if he doesn't sign a job application he can't work there, well, that's true.
What your seeing here, every since ancient times is in the simplest terms is servitude, you have to work for wages in order to make physical money in order to pay for services, buy food and so on.
Its a circle that never ends, you work, you get paid, you pay your bills, you buy food, you get up and commute the next day to that dead end crappy job with the overbearing idiot supervisor, and the cycle keeps repeating.
To be certain, now that we are past the era of the industrial revolution and are now in the information age. There are doors that have been opened for nontraditional, or should I say digital age ways of earning money.
You no longer have to be bound to a employer unless it's what you want and your comfortable with living your life like that.
In this day and time there are a myriad of ways to make money online and be independent of that salt mine and the idiot supervisor. I'm going to list a few ways to make money online.
1. Affiliate Marketer
2. Blogger
3. Bookkeeper
4. Consulting
5. Data Entry
6. Copywriting
7. E-Commerce Store Owner
8. Editing and Proofreading
9. Online Instructor
10. Online Teacher
11. Online Juror
12. Photographer/Videographer
13. Programmer
14. Social Media Manager
15. Survey Taker
16. Telephone Nurse
17. Virtual Assistant
18. Travel Agent
19. Virtual Tutor
20. Web Developer
21. Writing Gigs
22. Sell on eBay
23. Start an ETSY store online
24. Got a skill, create a online course with Udemy
I listed two dozen ideas to get you thinking.
There are dozens if not hundreds of ways to earn money online.
Do your own research, explore ways and ask questions about telecommuting, take programming classes, go to bookstores and public library's, read about everything you can about working online.
Then hopefully, there'll come the day you can ditch that dead end job and say adios to that idiot supervisor.
Just Go For It, A Life Of Travel Adventure Awaits
~Chaz~
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