The Long Haul and the Abolition of Work

The long haul of work. The monotonous and painstakingly dull task of repetition. Working several days in a row. Odd hours, not being able to do anything with anyone else outside of work. Having your emotional energy exhausted. You're passions numbed and replaced with emptiness. The long haul. Seven days in arrow, for that one day you look forward to having off. That one day of freedom. Then you return and you dread it. Until you have off again. You work long hours and the job is repetitive often involving physical tasks. And after everything is all said and done. 20 percent of what you make goes to the government to be able to murder people domestically and abroad, expanding the power of the wealthy abroad, while protecting the property of wealthy domestically.

There was once the long held idea that work is supposed to do something that you are to be proud of what you accomplish through work. That you build something, create, and nurture an idea into reality.

There was a time when a person could work 40 hours a week, pay for what they needed, take care of their family and have a savings. This was the law starting in 1938. There were strong workers rights, good pay and a high standard of living. That's all gone.

Through decades of dismantling workers rights. The ideology of neoliberalism fundamentally redesigned the economy. The tax system completely changed. Taking more money from the poor working class and allowing the rich to pay less. The minimum wage froze for nearly three decades. So if people aren't physically making more money and things are getting more expensive, introduce credit, and use it to buy things that they can't afford and people will never be able to pay off.

Now what exists Is the gig economy. The precariat. The precarious proletariat. Keep workers scared of loosing their jobs. If it's too shitty and someone can't take it. Fuck, fixing things, just find another job. This is the logic of the gig economy. Part time work with little to no money. Quick ways to make money. Selling things you don't need to make more money. Working longer hours purely to have more money. Working hours of your life away. One day, if you're lucky you can retire and never have to work again.

While working conditions worsen, big business oligarchs get rich at the expense of Working people. The concentration of wealth into fewer and fewer hands. In times of Crisis the poor always do worse, while it leaves a moment for the wealthy corporations to become more and more concentrated.

What is work like today? Since not much is produced, a service and shipping economy dominates the American economy. Workers who work in retail, do nothing productive but being the shop keeper's of commodities. Those who work in shipping, move around the commodities and put them in different spots.

Middle management exists to make up tasks, often pointless tasks that don't get completed, for workers to do. Middle management and Human resources exist mainly as ways for businesses to have more corporate domination and control over their workers. This allows for the weakening of unions and anti union propaganda.

Even if you take the fiction that at some point someone could work a good job with decent pay, with hours that worked with their life and left them time outside of their job to fulfill their passions. A job that allowed them time off, to reconnect with their families, fall in love, and pursue new and exciting things. However, that free time comes to an end and you return to your corporate prison. The cycle continues and the system tumbles on.

What is really produced under capitalism? Nothing but others building the dreams and the world painted in the image of the wealthy capitalists society.

Is this all there is? Is this all life is? Is there ways out?

You can become your own boss, own a small business. Essentially become a business owner, own a part of production, become bourgeoisie. You can reach petty bourgeoisie middle management. You can go to college get a degree and work a 8-5 job with weekends off and good pay. But this is only achievable through mountains of debt.

The idea of leaving proletarianism for a life of petty bourgeoisie "personal occupational freedom" is seen as a way out. But you still are working and now your boss is no longer a person but a faceless economy of consumers, you must be obedient too.

The final way out is suicide. To take one's own life to finally end waking up for a alarm in the morning.

Is this all there is to life? To work and then die, to only be a cog to create wealth for others, to struggle to make it by. Is this all there is?

For many this is all they believe, all they will ever know and then they will die.

However, the struggle to do away with a life based solely on work has been in the battle since the creation of the oppressive system of capitalism has existed. A free world based on free association of producers, in which everyone has a say in what they want and all people finally have complete and total control of their lives. To abolish the system of wage slavery! This is the goal for modern day abolitionists and radicals. For the vision of a world for all people is only brought about through communism.

Then the long haul will never exist and the idea of work will be one of the past.