Dear Brandi,

I’m glad that you’ve found success and satisfaction in your work, and I do not want to take that away from you because there are very few people who are satisfied with their work- ~30% last time I checked. As for the rest… well, they most likely had to settle for the sake of survival- given up on dreams they may have had, all because they probably weren’t “realistic” enough; all for the sake of survival; which, again, shouldn’t be a person’s main worry; not in today’s world at least. The idea alone that people have to sell their time and labor in order to survive- rather than simply leave their dwellings to pick vegetables and hunt for food (things that are -by nature- communal)- is counter to this idea that we’re “free.” How is it freedom if someone HAS to work for someone else so they can get express permission to survive (money)? I don’t necessarily care about how ONE person can improve their OWN worklife- if you did, that’s great; but what about everyone else? Say I end up getting promoted to CEO of Nike; that’s great! I’m now a billionaire and never have to work again! Now I am the very thing I hate about humanity- a bureaucrat; a “leader”; an “owner.” It’s idealism at it’s laziest to just cite hard work as the recipe to escape being exploited because upward mobility is the path to becoming the exploiter. And why would anybody wand to become what they hate? The rich are and have been stealing resources, calling them theirs, and using their money to exploit people who can no longer get those things without money so they can get money to get the things that they otherwise wouldn’t need money to get had we not created a system that uses human beings as fuel, and just farts them away after they’ve been burned out. I don’t think that it’s fair for me or anybody else to be afforded opportunities to work when there are people out there who “aren’t qualified” because that, as I said before, creates toxic ideas of self-worth.