I’m not entirely sure if my ill feelings toward authority are rooted in my childhood. I got the idea that we’re pawns in the working world from my observations. I’ve stopped taking for granted that the world is as the world is and started thinking about what the world isn’t. And the world isn’t a lot of things- fair, and humane being but two of those things. It’s neither fair, nor humane for people who “own” things (like resources) to withold said things from others for money- yet, we do not question it when we see people struggling to survive/living on the streets; no… we label them as lazy, or junkies rather than victims of a system that relies on the exploitation of able bodies and rejects bodies that have done all that they can (retirees). It’s also neither fair, nor humane for people to have to answer to higherups, especially when those higherups have full power to take away the source of a person’s income- ESPECIALLY when it comes to doing so in order to save whatever business some money (as though the coffers of a large corporation, or any business for that matter, matter more than a person’s livlihood. I also dislike the idea of meritocracy and competition. It pits people against each other rather than encouraging them to work together.it also creates toxic ideas of self-worth; “Oh YEAH, I sold more than you which means I get more money and more material things that I can use to prove that I’m better than you!” “Great job Allen! You’ve sold more gunk than everyone else here so you’re allowed to make more than everybody because you helped ME make more money!” But I think that the worst part of the human work force is that the vast majority of people will be spending most of the years of their “free” lives as a subordinate to another human being- someone who eats, sleeps, uses the bathroom, get’s sick, just like everyone else- until you’re too old to work and are no longer efficient enough to be exploited; that’s apparently the only time we’re allowed to be truly free- when we’re no longer useful to business owners. I dislike how humans come second to their work; even to themselves. We define ourselves by what we do for a living- as though what one can produce is more important in defining one’s personhood than actual personhood.