Ndyabawe Wasswa Myres

Those who want to take advantage of our suicidal labour socialise us into thinking that we are on earth to only work. How did our lives get structured in such a way that we spend all our day working, and then return home to sleep for a few hours, resting to prepare for another full day of labour! We’ve been made to think that it is for our survival, but when you think deeply about it, you find much more. How come every other free animal spends its day chilling, grazing, playing, flying, laying in the cool bushes, … but it’s only the human to spend most of his/her lifetime labouring! Is that a mark of the special rationality we claim or historically designed and rationalised slavery that we are simply socialised into?

Many people spend much of their lives looking for money that they hardly ever get to enjoy. The pursuit of money and performance of job tasks itself becomes an addiction that sucks life out of humans. It becomes an end in itself. We end up like factory machines, only definable in terms of input and output, totally stripped of life. But all along living an illusion of doing well.