What is Mental Slavery?

The below comment came in this weekend from someone who works in Ad Sales for a Magazine:

“I feel like a mental slave every day. My ancestors were slaves, fought for their freedom, and now I am letting myself get trapped into legal and socially acceptable slavery.”

Mental Slavery: What a concept. Many workers aren’t working in physically exhausting jobs, but are mentally exhausted.  Just googling mental slavery was interesting.

Letting yourself get trapped:  The first step to getting unstuck is to admit that you are stuck and feel like a slave. You can then do something about it.

Legal and Socially Acceptable Slavery: It is called the labor “market” after all. The only way around this is to create something of value, live frugally and not HAVE to participate in the labor market, or to be able do it on your own terms.

Fighting for your freedom:  You can break the cycle of mental slavery.  Admit it. Accept it. Take Action. Let Go. Let Come. 

The more I analyze the comments that are coming in the more I know that an awakening is happening worldwide.  People are waking up.  No longer buying into allowing the rich to get richer while they labor and suffer with little reward.  

 

 

 

 

Share the Wealth With Basic Income

With a basic income those who want to “Just Quit” could.

Monthly Income

With this income you could pay off your debt and start saving to have six months of expenses so you could move on from a job making you mentally and physically ill. Yes, it’s political (because it’s about who gets the money), but it’s practical (give the money to the people). The more I study it the more it makes sense.

At The Bottom

This is an image that I CAN NOT get out of my head. It haunting to me. Haunting. It’s all those people at the bottom “working for all” yet NOT benefiting from their labor. Just falling down, and beat down.

Flatten Wages and Technology – Shifting Economics

It has dawned on me after five years of blogging about Just Quitting and three years of survey results that the REASONS that people are feeling the way they are is because: globalization has flattened wages (that’s not going to change back to the way it was) and technology is displacing workers (that’s only going to get worse).

There isn’t much incentive to work to live anymore.  People can’t go on…they don’t want to. There are huge structural shifts happening in the work world and people are feeling the shift. Basic Income makes sense. It’s a way out of this mess. The wealth has to be shared. Many of my tweets and posts will be referencing the Industrial Revolution 4.0 and Basic Income.

I am going to record and show what it feels like for Humans At The Beginning of An Economic Worldwide Shift.