These jobs you are speaking of–washing cars, mowing lawns, even kids working in their parents’ store–do you think that is the same as working for a multinational conglomerate handling food with no breaks and minimum wage?

You literally are not doing any labor, and are not getting paid. Is that supposed to be a gotcha?

If any labor were truly unskilled; you could come in day one and perform as well as those who’d been at it for 10 years. I can’t think of one thing where that is the case. Does anyone still test if food has been poisoned by eating it first? Little skill, but man if so that person definitely deserves a good wage.

You really think those massive, experimental water tanks won’t require more maintenance, because you have to trim trees once ever few years? Or because their roots might grow too much?

What work can we do to get that system? We aren’t allowed to vote for it and neither party is interested in more competition. French-style protests might work, but our list of grievances is so long. We’d have to unite under something big…it just all feels like a long shot for our society.

The solution is to keep some people from setting the ship on fire for a few more years, while we build lifeboat communities with alternate care systems so that we can withdraw our money and labor from the sinking ship system in a more gradual way that minimizes global and local pain and suffering and death.

Thank God I thought it was just me!