i’m in a slow downward spiral realizing how much i like the new shera specially everyone in the hoard, and glimmer.
just chillin (spark’s apartment with…most of the tenants…)
spark pls
sort of hi res if uploading kills the big img (patreon folks u get full res)
toshiagain
Have you ever thought to yourself how unfair it is that our jobs occupy most of our lives?
In 24 hours, most of us work an 8 hour shift, leaving us with 16 hours. Our lunch break, which is usually rushed and taken at work, is another hour, leaving us with 15 hours in our day. Now, it takes me a little less than half an hour to get to work, another half to get home, let’s count that as another full hour gone, we are left with 14, however many people would be left with less after their commute. Now let’s say it takes a single hour for you to get ready for work (shower, style your hair, get dressed), that leaves us with 13 hours. But wait, it is said that all of us should get a solid 8 hours of sleep at night, so let’s deduct that, leaving us with a mere 5 hours of a full day to do as we please, to be “free.” We spend (at minimum) 79.2% of our day in pre-determined, work related ways and only have 20.8% to live our lives. Now this doesn’t count days off, but let’s be honest, most of us catch up on sleep, chores, and do other tasks to hold our lives together in that time.
So what am I saying?
First, I think it is disgusting that our lives are not spent doing as our hearts desire, not exploring and enjoying, but (and I hate to use this word and hope in context it does not offend) slaving away at jobs which pay us barely enough money to survive and require vast chunks of our lives. We as a people exclaim how free we are, so free that we bomb other countries in the name of said freedom, ans yet our time, which is the most precious commodity, is consumed by employment and labour to the point where our stress levels and our depression levels have skyrocketed while our quality of life and life expectancy have declined.
Second, as automation and progress eats away at jobs the vast majority of Americans hold, we have the opportunity to free ourselves from this bondage. It doesn’t have to be a jump, it can be a slow ease into a new system. We can start with raising the minimum wage and lowering either the days we work or the hours we work. We can start by reducing ourselves to 4 days per week at 8 hours, or reduce ourselves to 6 hour days at 5 days per week. This would boost our lives enormously. Of course, wages would have to increase significantly to cover the gap on top of an already low minimum wage. That would require businesses to sacrifice profit in the name of quality of life, which isn’t likely, so that leads us to option #2, a Universal Basic Income. Now, this idea, currently being championed by presidential candidate Andrew Yang, is nothing new. It has been around for even longer than the United States itself. But in our brief history one of the greatest minds for change, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., knew it was part of the solution that would end poverty and lift Americans to their potential. Back then it was a possiblity, now it is quickly becoming a requirement. Without a UBI, millions of Americans will slip deeper into poverty and while the corporations and industries of our country will get bailed out, the everyday American won’t unless we commit ourselves to this. A simple $1,000 boost every month for all Americans would allow wages to remain relatively untouched but allow most of us to take more time off, explore more, build ourselves into the economy, and give us something so precious it cannot be calculated… time.
In conclusion, we work too damn much and waste the vast majority of our lives under the boot of companies. As our economy and workforce are changing radically, we have to be bold and not let fear stop us from lifting each other out of the past and into the future. We have never before had this opportunity and of we do not take advantage, we could never see it again. They have already tried to bury it , call it crazy, say it won’t do anything, and yet we are not even giving it a shot. American workers need to stand up and say loudly that we are done being used, and that our time is more precious than anyone else’s profit.
