Good evening everyone,
Soon I'm going to start a new job but to be frank I'm still miserable as sin.
Some folks might go "But Mike, a job is a job, you are making money!"
The cost of living and building a future for citizens that live in the U.K is astounding.
Unless you're earning over £18k+ a year I genuinely believe that no one is making money. We are simply covering our bills and saving what we can when we can until that car breaks or our teeth need fixing. (I'm trying to say "We gotta get angry folks".)
I remember a story about a father earning £14k and barely being able to provide for his family because of the current cuts. Despite working full-time, his family could apply for help because the wages were not enough to cover the cost of living. Our welfare state is subsidising companies that are being too cheap to pay their staff a respectable wage. (What is a respectable wage? The kind of salary where you can stand on your own two feet and control your own life without financial assistance). This man has kids whilst working full time and the wages from essentially acting like a blood vessel for some company is tragic. If this is what happens to a full-time father what hope is there for future generations that are now entering the job market?
So many people keep this country functioning and allow this entire show to take place and are they getting their fair share? No.
We are engaged in a race to the bottom, in which as many functions will be given to as few a persons as humanely possible. Such a notion terrifies me. We are humans, not machines and yet we are expected to act like them until a machine is finally introduced that would make us all redundant anyway.
I guess the irony here is the race to the bottom would squeeze wages so much that implementing such a machine would not be cost effective as you would have an army of drones fulfilling the functions that your company requires anyway. This is what happened during the British Industrial Revolution.
The fact that I can see all of this makes me sad, furious and cold.
The fact that people simply accept this reality because "A job is a job is a job is a job..." mantra seems to be so wide place.Why are people afraid to stand up and declare "I am human, I am not a machine, I have dreams and my function here won't help that".
Never mind that the people taken off of the JSA and placed into workfare are counted as employed, or those in sanctions are taken off the statistics too. Never mind the fact that entry level wages are going down lower and lower and our apprentice minimum wage is £2.60 an hour.
Never mind that kids are the future and this is the world we are going to give them.
Never mind that houses are gold dust and we haven't built enough.
Never mind that the staff in the care homes are paid a pittance and when we sell our houses that we worked aeons for, the sell off won't cover the costs of our place in some care home. Never mind this race to the bottom for after all, a job is a job is a job.
I feel so sad (and angry) by all this.
I want to build a fort of duvets and hide from it all.
The trick is, find a job you love, hopefully one that will pay enough for you to build a future and you should be alright. (That is as close as Britain comes to the American Dream.)
Yet many British folks do not have that. That is why UKIP, Britain First and hate is everywhere.
We are slaving off our asses, getting nowhere fast, the mere idea that someone could get something for nothing brings our blood to a fine boil. But it is easier to point the finger at an the vulnerable than to look at ourselves and accept that we have the power to change this world that we live on and it starts by changing how we interact with it.
Soon I will have hours around train times and I won't work on Fridays (but on Sundays).
This means I can finally practise my saxophone before 7pm on a weekday. ^___^
My main aim in life is to lift everything up. To try and raise everything higher.
People tell me that you should only look out for yourself but the NHS, universal suffrage, equality, our social housing, free education and our justice system only came into being because our grandparents and their ancestors looked out for one another. I see no sense in standing tall and proud, all on my own, if the society around me crumbles to dust and becomes a mess of self interest and scape goating.
Once upon a time my family had nothing, quite literally nothing. Everything that I have today is partly the result of my own determination but mostly because of the support given to me and the faith that folks have in me. Maybe that is why our society has become selfish? Not as many people believe in one another any more? I believe in people though, I think if we push ourselves and push others to give us a better deal then we can achieve a decent place in this world.
I think people are all a lot smarter than what they give themselves credit for.
If people are given the right support then anything is possible.
This ramble was a half blog by The Common Sense Eccentric.
Soon I'm going to start a new job but to be frank I'm still miserable as sin.
Some folks might go "But Mike, a job is a job, you are making money!"
The cost of living and building a future for citizens that live in the U.K is astounding.
Unless you're earning over £18k+ a year I genuinely believe that no one is making money. We are simply covering our bills and saving what we can when we can until that car breaks or our teeth need fixing. (I'm trying to say "We gotta get angry folks".)
I remember a story about a father earning £14k and barely being able to provide for his family because of the current cuts. Despite working full-time, his family could apply for help because the wages were not enough to cover the cost of living. Our welfare state is subsidising companies that are being too cheap to pay their staff a respectable wage. (What is a respectable wage? The kind of salary where you can stand on your own two feet and control your own life without financial assistance). This man has kids whilst working full time and the wages from essentially acting like a blood vessel for some company is tragic. If this is what happens to a full-time father what hope is there for future generations that are now entering the job market?
So many people keep this country functioning and allow this entire show to take place and are they getting their fair share? No.
We are engaged in a race to the bottom, in which as many functions will be given to as few a persons as humanely possible. Such a notion terrifies me. We are humans, not machines and yet we are expected to act like them until a machine is finally introduced that would make us all redundant anyway.
I guess the irony here is the race to the bottom would squeeze wages so much that implementing such a machine would not be cost effective as you would have an army of drones fulfilling the functions that your company requires anyway. This is what happened during the British Industrial Revolution.
The fact that I can see all of this makes me sad, furious and cold.
The fact that people simply accept this reality because "A job is a job is a job is a job..." mantra seems to be so wide place.Why are people afraid to stand up and declare "I am human, I am not a machine, I have dreams and my function here won't help that".
Never mind that the people taken off of the JSA and placed into workfare are counted as employed, or those in sanctions are taken off the statistics too. Never mind the fact that entry level wages are going down lower and lower and our apprentice minimum wage is £2.60 an hour.
Never mind that kids are the future and this is the world we are going to give them.
Never mind that houses are gold dust and we haven't built enough.
Never mind that the staff in the care homes are paid a pittance and when we sell our houses that we worked aeons for, the sell off won't cover the costs of our place in some care home. Never mind this race to the bottom for after all, a job is a job is a job.
I feel so sad (and angry) by all this.
I want to build a fort of duvets and hide from it all.
The trick is, find a job you love, hopefully one that will pay enough for you to build a future and you should be alright. (That is as close as Britain comes to the American Dream.)
Yet many British folks do not have that. That is why UKIP, Britain First and hate is everywhere.
We are slaving off our asses, getting nowhere fast, the mere idea that someone could get something for nothing brings our blood to a fine boil. But it is easier to point the finger at an the vulnerable than to look at ourselves and accept that we have the power to change this world that we live on and it starts by changing how we interact with it.
Soon I will have hours around train times and I won't work on Fridays (but on Sundays).
This means I can finally practise my saxophone before 7pm on a weekday. ^___^
People tell me that you should only look out for yourself but the NHS, universal suffrage, equality, our social housing, free education and our justice system only came into being because our grandparents and their ancestors looked out for one another. I see no sense in standing tall and proud, all on my own, if the society around me crumbles to dust and becomes a mess of self interest and scape goating.
Once upon a time my family had nothing, quite literally nothing. Everything that I have today is partly the result of my own determination but mostly because of the support given to me and the faith that folks have in me. Maybe that is why our society has become selfish? Not as many people believe in one another any more? I believe in people though, I think if we push ourselves and push others to give us a better deal then we can achieve a decent place in this world.
I think people are all a lot smarter than what they give themselves credit for.
If people are given the right support then anything is possible.
This ramble was a half blog by The Common Sense Eccentric.
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