Jen had a phase where she would read books about Nazi Germany and how the holocaust happened. From Anne Frank to M.A.U.S to Tattooist of Auschwitz and a bunch more, she read them all.
One thing stuck with me when she was sharing what she had read. The people who died in the holocaust willingly went to these concentration camps. How was it possible to convince millions of people to happily walk towards their death?
I’ll tell you how, it was because the design of the lie was good.
These people literally thought they were being saved. They were told they were being relocated to a place where they could be given work and earn money to start families and live happy lives.
Upon arriving in concentration camps, they would be given hard labor with just enough compensation to survive but not enough compensation to actually ‘build a life’.
In this fabricated world they worked until they died. Hence, the execution was by design. They were being killed but thought they were living in paradise. And those who were resilient enough to not be killed by the system became the next set of officers / game masters who oversaw the paradise experience for the next set of people to slaughter.
I was telling Jen is it possible that this is still being done?
Think about it.
The money we’re getting as honest 9-5 workers is more than enough to feed us (individually), but not enough to start a family. Isn’t it a bit too much of a coincidence that we’ve been grinding for more than a decade but still have no capacity to build the life we envisioned for ourselves? Is it possible that this is by design? A new invisible concentration camp meant to keep us from creating lives. Is the goal to lessen the population?
Or is it just the case that our work wasn’t valuable at all. No one paid us good money for it. We can’t even go on vacations undisturbed and we’re still broke. How? How is the honest work, that occupies our 24/7 days not turning into millions? How is it that when I cross the street at least 14 cars worth 35 mil zoom past me every day- where is this money and why am I not getting any of it? A decade of work with nothing to show for. 10+ of my human years spent in toil with no reward. Valueless work. Non-solutions to non-problems. Can’t save my mom. Multiple degrees for naught.
Only two possibilities. It’s a system problem, OR I’m a useless piece of shit who hasn’t really created anything of value.
Latter makes more sense.
Latter is controllable.
Time to create value.
Time to stop chasing A’s and start chasing M’s.
In 7 years, I will walk in any room, and I will be the richest person there.
I refuse paradise.