Working harder for someone else's money

It's no longer, "We're not going to fail our children."

But rather, we're blindly failing them! And blindly failing with them.

Useless people raise useless children. Let me elaborate on that. I am frustrated with the trends in our society; we have evolved a culture to the point where the jobs we do - or at least the salaries we get paid - are more often in support of derivative profits than realized goods and services.

And don't forget to factor in the relative quality of the goods being produced.

It has happened for generations, and certainly it has been worse as well as better in the past, but there has always been a pattern among empires and imperialist states where the toils of workers aren't focused on actually making life better for all.

Sure, openly sanctioned slavery is a thing of the past, but the idea that we pay workers less abroad for doing the same jobs domestically is a fundamental injustice that still persists. It's so ingrained in the minds of everybody, that we don't think about this injustice and how it is the symptom of a deeply rooted problem.

Economic policies often keep small under-developed nations strangled. How do we justify paying them less for the same jobs? Seriously, if we can't work out a way to immediately establish balance in welfare disparity, I can understand that. (not really) But we should at least be working towards that goal, and it's easy enough to start by paying the same salaries across the globe.

Create the money if you need to. I've seen it done before. And if you don't want to pay the same for foreign services, then hire domestically. It sounds like a good start, and seems reasonable, but I'm sure it's flawed somewhere under Keynesian theory.

Our children grow up in worlds where everything is the product of this demented reality where money reigns supreme.

We allow the effects as a "necessary evil". Every kid questions at some point in their young tv watching career, why do there have to be commercials?

Well, "They're a necessary evil, my child."

Everything is based on consumerism, for better or worse. Even living in a house. Inhabitants of modern houses don't think about the problem that they use more resources than they produce, at an equilibrium rate that can't be sustained. This goes against the well-stated yogic mantra: don't take anything that isn't free, and always give back more than you take.

In a sense, I suppose we are giving more than we take, especially true for manual laborers. Unfortunately a large chunk of the proceeds of our toil is paid out to that fabled 1%, and likely you won't see it again.

The bottom line is, we need to work harder for the well-being of humanity and the ecosystem in which Homo sapiens exists.

"The highest yogic ideal concerning money is to neither grasp for money or to reject it. Rather, we aim at a degree of equanimity, to manage our minds and our lives whether we have a little or a lot of money."
A Yogic Perspective on Money