For your money, you should get value. At least this is what I think when I go and work hard everyday. At the end of the week, when I'm on my shopping duty I see sad things though. I see GMOs everywhere, I see no-flavor-at-all fake chicken products came out from stressful, tiny cages. I see veggies and fruits that shouldn't be there, because it is not their season, however we make it profitable by the blessing called "Greenhouse".
But wait... if I produce value (by working) why don't I get this value back? Is it because we tend to forget the time of Barter? That was about exchanging values, right? Everytime I watch films like Super Size Me, Trainspotting, Fight Club, I'm more convinced in that market is just producing things to make you spend your values. Because that is what you do. Everytime I buy food, I spend some values of mine. Some time, some energy, some brainwork, some creativity of mine. So why I should spend all of these for low-value products?
Instead of giving alternatives, I just leave here questions that bugging me day to day.
- Is money a real thing? Can we measure someone's performance, time, and experience in money?
- Why we work 40 hours a week in average?
- How the fact would influence people's everyday life if we work less, say 2 days a week, and produce the rest for ourselves?
- That would make connections stronger in our society?
- Is DEGROWTH an answer?
- Why do we generate more and more work? Isn't development meant to be work less with the better tools we have?
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