The nature of any large society is that different people complete different jobs. Inevitably, of course, the different jobs people have will mean they’ll have different lifestyles, due to differences in income, workload and stress rates. A doctor wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between a Houston contract warehouse and a Houston 3PL, just as a store worker wouldn’t be able to inform the doctor of how to complete a double bypass operation. No doubt the intelligence level of the doctor would be greater and the physical strength of the store man would be higher. But is it our occupation that causes us to have the life we do, or are we naturally pre-disposed to have a certain type of job?
This question has an unspoken premise which may be incorrect. It assumes that we are all in jobs which we like, which can be safely concluded to not be the case. Many people are currently working in jobs they did not want to do when they were children, thinking of how they would be living their lives. Many have also received education in an arena different to the place they are working in, and most of us have dreams of some day quitting our jobs and doing what we deep down want to.
Although we live in a so-called advanced society, these problems have never been dealt with to any significant extent, we simply see them as the way the world is. Everyday we’re given a new piece of technology that costs more money, that we’ll need to work harder and longer to pay for, and that will inevitably crash and cause more stress like all the other products we own. Isn’t it about time someone set out to create a product that made us have to work less, or made our work easier?
You might think that things like machinery and vehicles have made the work of people like loggers or those doing physical jobs much easier, and they have to some extent. But the people who use these items don’t see any benefit, they still have to work for the same length of time. The benefit is only seen by the bosses, who gain the profits of the increasing amount of work that can be completed. If a product were invented that made something easier, can you see a boss allowing staff to work less due to the new invention?
The reason no thing that actually reduces workload is invented is because such a device would hurt the system we currently have created, or at least those on the top of the system. If we had more time to ourselves and didn’t have to work so much, we might start to begin noticing areas of life that are freely available to all. This would be very bad for the economy!
It’s time to take a look around and realize the things in our lives that are and are not important. How much cash we can make should be at the very bottom of the line, with human emotions at the front.
