Tuesday, 21 March 2017

JUST PHILOSOPHISING ON STATES OF BEING - BEING UNEMPLOYED IN A MARKET ECONOMY. PART 2.





And, yes, as I have indicated previously, with each of these commitments, be it that of buying a house and having a mortgage to pay monthly.  

Or buying a nice car and committing to the monthly instalments, or booking the next holiday as soon as we have this one, we become slaves to consumerism. 

We become the equivalent of indentured labourers. 

Because we have to set so many months or years of our 'labour' aside, to ensure that we do not default on paying that damn mortgage or that monthly payment on the 'car of convenience.'



Yes, not only do we have to keep working to pay 'the man'; the 'system', if you like, but we oftentimes cannot help worrying about the 'what if' scenario. 

What if I lose our job? What if I fall seriously ill? 

Of course, the consumerist society has also thought of those 'what ifs', and use them to market health and unemployment insurances. Insuring against nearly every conceivable risks, as it were. 

And now, not only are we in a state of 'indentured servitude' to the mortgage and hire purchase brokers, but also to the 'insurance protection' providers as well. 



The size and weight of the yoke around our necks and the chains on our ankles have just increased.

Of course, in order to lay claim on material goods and assets, we have to have a way of exchanging our labour. Our health, fitness and ability to work productively and efficiently. 

Not only at anything, but in making products or services for which their is a market. 

Yes, we have to have a job. 

The 'means' by which we intend and hope to be able to acquire both the essentials and the luxuries which is the 'dream' or 'ends' which consumerism uses to 'motivate' and incentivises us.

But what about the unemployed person? What is their status, position and roles in our consumeristic and materialistic society? How do they see themselves, and are seen by others?

To be continued.




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