pento
Member
- Nov 12, 2021
- 79
Over the last couple years, I decided I one hundred percent refuse to be economically exploited, to sell my time for less than I willingly would without force or coercion (e.g. the threat of starvation/abject poverty). I refuse to be a wage slave. I consider everything else negotiable.
This is a particularly severe problem in the United States, I can't speak about other countries, but young adults who weren't born to rich parents and can't afford college have little to no hope of ever having a fulfilling career. Their only option is to slave away at corporations like fast food restaurants for chump change that doesn't even come close to affordably covering rent.
Society took away and continues to take away every easy, peaceful way to die. I didn't choose to be born, but I can choose not to be exploited.
So my contract with society (and anyone else who refuses me the option of death) is as follows: If you won't give me the option of death, and won't provide me meaningful opportunities to succeed, then you will sustain me. Indefinitely. Fortunately, I'm not near this point yet, but I will take this doctrine all the way up to showing up starving in the ER and they will have no choice but to either feed me or kill me. And we all know which option they would choose.
I encourage anyone else, particularly those with family/partners holding them back from suicide, to consider the same. I don't have parents, but if you do and you're living with them suicidal, make them sustain you or pay for your college if they want you alive so badly. Whatever you do, don't slave away at McDonalds. Your life is worth more than that.
This is a particularly severe problem in the United States, I can't speak about other countries, but young adults who weren't born to rich parents and can't afford college have little to no hope of ever having a fulfilling career. Their only option is to slave away at corporations like fast food restaurants for chump change that doesn't even come close to affordably covering rent.
Society took away and continues to take away every easy, peaceful way to die. I didn't choose to be born, but I can choose not to be exploited.
So my contract with society (and anyone else who refuses me the option of death) is as follows: If you won't give me the option of death, and won't provide me meaningful opportunities to succeed, then you will sustain me. Indefinitely. Fortunately, I'm not near this point yet, but I will take this doctrine all the way up to showing up starving in the ER and they will have no choice but to either feed me or kill me. And we all know which option they would choose.
I encourage anyone else, particularly those with family/partners holding them back from suicide, to consider the same. I don't have parents, but if you do and you're living with them suicidal, make them sustain you or pay for your college if they want you alive so badly. Whatever you do, don't slave away at McDonalds. Your life is worth more than that.