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Human nature is bursting at the seams, creating mental health epidemics across the world due to our slavish obsession with working ourselves to death over some arbitrary playground rule called "money." I've been thinking a lot about the "Butcher, Baker, Barber" allegory for capitalism, and I still don't understand why the butcher can't just get their haircut, the baker get their meat, and the barber get their bread when they need it. What is the reason for abstracting human interactions into worthless pieces of paper or coin (or digit on a spreadsheet) unless it's for the sake of despiritualizing humanity all together, passing the buck to future generations, and hoarding wealth over others?
I feel this to my core. I’ve always hated the concept of taking something so infinitely valuable and precious as my attention and focus and boiling it down to a number. Honestly disrespectful when you think about it.
We don't do respect around here, meat.