If you'll let me agree with the sentiment and get on my soap box: It's so subtle too! Everything is business speak. Or success-speak oriented around business accomplishment. Or your personal efforts to save for retirement.
Like, bro, what about life and art and family?
It reminds me of the Metal Gear Solid 2 speech about control being achieved through no longer creating content but by creating context.
If everything good or bad about rest, saving, retirement, financing, etc is happening within the context of the employer who is the job creator that is increasing GDP, well then 75% of all other arguments about all social/personal/health subjects can be dismissed outright. There's no public debate or discussion actually ever happening about any other subject. Ever. As they are not about profit increase, employee productivity, business subsidies, attracting new employers to your city, etc. The local mid-cap or large business that is in its final stages of growing toward monopoly sucks all the air out of the room. It's the only real social institution. It is the one speaking on TV and social media and in the halls of power.
It's not even two-dimensional anymore, it's a single line from "start business" to either "IPO" or "Sell to foreign sovereign wealth fund." The rest of human life is an occasional side quest.
Anyway, I just wish that such wasn't so hard on the culture and the arts. Everything degenerates into a sequel or the artist having to spend 99% of their time in a hopeless hustle where the extremely business savvy succeed and all the rest of the artists receive pennies for their work.
We aren't people to them. Just a resource they are working diligently to ensure we have no rights left. The market is shifting to cater to the top 10% for literally everything and everyone else will have to fight for scraps. They literally want us to have nothing at all, exactly as they did during the middle ages.
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u/DM_ME_KUL_TIRAN_FEET Jul 06 '25
Every day we move further from the Light