It seems that the trend of growing inequality is completely out of control, and that humanity has been totally consumed by the system, pumping the economy, generating more wealth for the wealthy, and we, the workers remain powerless as the evil corporations (such as the one I pack books for) thrive on this system of exploitation, exploitation of the people that power them.
How can we stop it?
The workforce is now so oppressed that it doesn't even realize the situation. It seems that people are too preoccupied by scavenging on the margins, feeding off the scraps; bound to labour to generate ever increasing profits for the wealthy, we're gagged, we have no voice and there's no means for dialogue, we are conditioned and bound to work, we pump the machines that make capital for the corporations, we get tired, yet we keep on working, we work to feed ourselves and to survive and ... and can't stop to think.
We're drones, workers, remote controlled moving objects, all the more noble characteristics of our human existence have been eroded and all that's left is drive, driven to work, driven to serve the system of our oppression.
I made this animation last weekend, that's my foot pumping (representative of all workers, all the working poor), working the machine; and in my version of events the fat cat bubble bursts, and it must burst, or better still, start eating itself so that suffers an unsightly implosion.
Meanwhile I despair; there's a bad vibe in the warehouse, we're not getting the shifts we need to cover living costs, so we're not earning a living, yet we work (see previous post).
And then I there was this on my pick sheet, And the Weak Must Suffer What They Must? by Yanis Varoufakis;
https://yanisvaroufakis.eu/books/and-the-weak-suffer-what-they-must/
No cloak, silly underpants or angst-ridden sidekick, a superhero in the guise of a well educated Greek bloke with a message for the masses, fantastic!!
I got excited. Assured that this publication would have the answers to my questions; what happens to workers under free market capitalism? When multinational corporations govern and their purpose is to generate more capital, more and more, feeding the few and making them fat - where does this trajectory take us? Boom-bust, boom-bust-boom, boom bust ...? And we work, pumping and grinding for booms and busts .... I don't know? Despair, voting apathy, head down, the last golden eagle in England feared dead, no, it's not a canary, sacrificed to show that the air is bad and that we're doomed to die, don't look up, pump the machine. Is there no alternative? So, I paused picking and packing, must read that book, I thought so I went straight up to the office to order myself a copy.
A few days later, when I hadn't received it I was told; 'you can't buy that one'.
They didn't let me buy the book. OK, I came across this in Ted Talks, Yanis Varoufakis has some answers to my questions;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB4s5b9NL3I
Now I'm an adoring fan, there's a hero among us; arisen from the ashes of a country annihilated by the EU. Yanis 'superhero' Varoufakis is here to fight the evil corporations and lead us to a future in which people who work for businesses own those businesses, such a set up would mark the end of waged slavery; he has a vision for a functional democratic system in which we can all be participants, he's fucking brilliant.
I invite you to become a follower, I am.
Next animation will be capitalism eating democracy.
