You’re in a compulsory relationship with labor
The title is borrowed language from some of Ismatu Gwendolyn’s videos on war as policy making and the violence a nation can endure through facism
The mentioned video is linked here:
If I’m being honest, I want to be like Ismatu. But, that’s impossible because Ismatu is Ismatu. So, I’m gonna continue working on my own journey of radicalization and education towards political action. This blog is one of the first places the former has been made tangible. But, I know that so much more is possible.
I want to be part of a grassroots movement that works to boycott tech interference in our lives. Interference into our education, jobs, and careers, interference into love and relationships, our food, clothing, medical care, and most dire, tech interference in global politics and war.
All of these things are connected. Tech companies are severing the most important elements of our lives and inserting themselves in the name of convenience and efficiency.
They quietly privatized everything seemingly for free. Then monopolized pre-existing markets and with nominal prices and subscriptions. Once we got acclimated to our new digital trap habitat they just keep turning up the heat, leaving us no way out. Generations of young folks have lost the skill to seek relationships, career opportunities, and geopolitical literacy because of the internet. Our quality of life is a pay for play subscription model, where the only thing that’s free is going on a walk.
What future are we leaving for our young people? We have to build systems and infrastructure to support ourselves separate from the powers that be.
Education, sanitation, Food, water, medical care, shelter, clothing and time. That is all we need. Considering the working class predominantly provides these things to the elites and the masses, there’s no reason we can’t create our own systems.
Money is only valuable because of the poverty, blood, death, and destruction that gives it meaning. If we can eradicate poverty and hierarchies, if we can stop war, death and destruction, money is absent of value.
You desire money because the empire necessitates your death without it.
“There are a great number of ways to die, but but the result is the same, either participate in hoarding capital or become the blood the soaks the money.”
- Ismatu Gwendolyn
Other worlds are possible, but it first starts with imagining. What does a world look like where the most vulnerable in our society are well cared for? What does a world look like in which everyone from infant to elderly, trans folks, folks with disabilities, the melanated global majority, when we all have abundant access to water, food, clothing, shelter, sanitation, education, medical care, and time?
Is there something you can do today that brings us closer to a world like that? What about tomorrow?
It starts with you.
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