The convention has accustomed us to a normality according to which it is “normal” to spend 8 hours a day closed in an office or in a factory, to which, adding the commute from home to work, we can easily spend 10 hours of our time, to do some activities that if we had the choice we probably wouldn’t do.
This, at best, 5 days a week, more than 20 days a month, to get a wage on which, considering taxes, prices increace and inflation, we can barely live decently.
If then there are familyproblems, health problems, or people who need care, then most likely we will be poor even if we have a work.
Most of the rest of the little time that remains we will spend it running frantically from one place to another to extricate ourselves from bills, deadlines, fines, documents to be renewed or to be produced, for example the 730 or the isee (documents produced from an accountant in Italy to calculate taxes), taxes to pay (mortgage, IRPEF, IMU, TARI (italian taxes), condominium installments and so on), which would allow us to continue our miserable existence.
When we materially free ourselves from these tasks, we keep running with thoughts: “this month I have to remember to pay the car insurance, the next I have the condominium installment due, I have to remember that expense for the car, then I have to write that email to school and I have to call the boss to talk about that meeting I can’t attend, I have to put aside a budget for holidays if I can because I have to do those fixes at home first”, and so on.
If we also have children, even the minutes we spend in the bathroom for trivial bodily functions become precious.
Despite this many even find the time to go to the stadium and disintegrate that little free time they have.
If some have the courage to define this daily hustle and bustle as a dignified life, good for them.
As far as I’m concerned, I like to think that we are certainly not born “to float in this shit”, as a famous italian singer-songwriter would say.

IN ANOTHER PLACE
Let’s try to fantasize a little.
We are in a wonderful world, where there is no chaos, no noise, no one is in a hurry.
There are no cars, just people strolling peacefully along paths with lush vegetation.
Time is not marked by a clock. A moment can last a year, and you live in the present all the time.
There is tranquility, everyone smiles and gets along. There are gardens all around full of flowers, scents and colors.
We sit on a wooden bench in one of these gardens.
We look at the horizon.
We close our eyes.
We breathe slowly.
We are immersed in eternal peace.
We have no thoughts.
We are filled with joy, peace and gratitude.
An elegant person with a cordial attitude slowly approaches and greets us with a smile.
He is our mentor.
He asks us how we are and if we are ready for a new adventure.
He tells us that we can incarnate on Earth to evolve spiritually.
He tells us that it is a place full of pitfalls, that we should expect physical and mental cages from which, if we don’t get out, we risk wasting our energies and wasting our lives.
…
And here we are, finally on Earth, closed in a factory, where instead of dedicating ourselves to our spiritual evolution, we spend all our time working, thinking about how to earn more money to be able to meet our deadlines, slaving all day until late afternoon , with the rest of the day busy and the mind filled with conflicting thoughts.

THE NORMALITY
Suppose we ask people to lock themselves in a cell every day where they perform simple tasks, in exchange for room and board. Probably none of these would accept.
If these people were unemployed and were offered a job, which takes up a good part of the solar day, to keep them confined in one place, and were then given a salary with which they would pay for room and board, almost all of them would accept without hesitation.
Juxtaposing the two scenarios is clearly a provocation.
But how many are able to notice the similarities between the two?
Apparently it seems like choosing between two opposing things, and the second is undoubtedly the better choice because those people are not inside a physical cage.
But cages aren’t necessarily physical. Isn’t being forced to stay in one place all day like being in a cage?
We could perceive it as a mental cage, from which it is difficult to free ourselves.
The illusion of “choice” is probably an influence of this society, because the world has accustomed us to doing this, everyone does it, the reality around us only shows us these examples, and even our parents have always encouraged us to find a job to lead a “normal” life.
But I wonder, if there weren’t the burden of bills, of daily expenses, if we were free from all the expenses that oppress us, would we trade our time for a salary to stay locked up in a place to do things that don’t interest us?
And above all, would we do it for a sum of money that barely allows us to sustain ourselves?

would we do it for a sum of money that barely allows us to support ourselves?

THE OTHERS
Trying to discuss the subject with an ordinary person, we would most likely be provided with sentences of circumstance and clichés, such as: it’s always been done this way, everyone does it, this is normal. How would society be supported if no one worked? Or also, work is a right. In the italian Constitution it is written that work is a fundamental right. And maybe, work ennobles man.

No one would go beyond social indoctrination to see from the outside how this vision of work propagated for generations is distorted, so as to make it seem like a right instead of what it really is, that is pure exploitation of human beings, sometimes similar to slavery of a few centuries ago, where the chains are no longer physical, but mental.
Headed by a ruling class, which steals our energies (our money) to literally burn them in privileges, fraudulent contracts, various thefts.
Not to mention the Mega Public Debt Scam, due to which billions of euros earned every single day by tireless workers are incinerated, to obtain absolute nothing in exchange.
It will be appropriate to make a brief excursus on bank seigniorage, from which derives most of the public debt of the States, which conditions the life of all human beings who work.

BANK SIENIORAGE
Seigniorage is very simply a mechanism through which money is lent by a central bank to a state, whose material value is a few cents, to get back the nominal value (the number printed on the banknote), to which must also be added interests.
For example, the ECB prints a 100 euro banknote, spending 20 cents on inks and paper material, which is the actual cost of the material. He lends it to the Italian state and wants back not 40 cents, considering the labour, but a good 100 euros plus interest, let’s say 110 euros.
Throughout the evolution of money, as money today is no longer physical, but almost entirely electronic, thus being created through electrical impulses from a computer, the scam has remained essentially the same.
Considering that this method is applied to loans of billions of euros, we can therefore imagine how colossal the amount of debt that arises is, and which will inevitably lead to an increase in the state’s public debt.
All this, since the state will have to save to stay within the debt threshold, translates into cuts in public spending, fewer services for citizens, cuts in education, health, public services of all kinds, and wild privatization to make ends meet.
But also cuts in pensions and more years of work for the community.
In short, a chain process is triggered whereby you have to work more, pay more taxes and end up with fewer services. All this to repay those famous debts that the state has accumulated due to a loan sharking system, and with the illusory purpose of reducing them.
In fact, reducing the debt is nothing more than wishful thinking, because in a functioning state, in order to have a thriving economy, a lot of money must necessarily circulate, which entails, as we have seen above, a further substantial accumulation of debt.
A vicious circle from which there is no way out.
This graph speaks for itself. Although the GDP seems to grow over the years, there is no way to reduce the public debt, which is only destined to rise:

Furthermore, the money, even if earned with years of work and sacrifices, will never belong to those who earn it, but to those who create it. It even has the copyright stamped on it, so it will always go back.
There are many books in which the concept of debt is explained in a simple way. One of many is “The Greatest Crime” by Paolo Barnard, or “Euroslaves” by Marco della Luna and Antonio Miclavez.
But there are also films and documentaries like El concursante, or Zeitgeist, which talk about this and other deceptions.
Furthermore, in the recent past there was an economics professor who denounced this phenomenon, Professor Giacinto Auriti, who was hindered by the system.
This short paragraph only wants to be a hint at these topics, which are complex but far from complicated. Even if they want to make it look like that.
The underlying concepts are simple and we must not be fooled by mathematical formulas and abstruse economic concepts of the many hired economists who appear in major television broadcasts.
Media language wants to make us feel poor and ignorant in order to keep us on a leash, continuing to delegate the management of things we don’t understand.
Instead it is very simple to understand that if a state issued its own currency, through its bank or treasury, it could everytime decide how much to introduce into the real economy of its country, and be able to control everything that depends on it.
It could decide which and how many new jobs to create, financing all the necessary contracts. Reduce unemployment. Decide which markets to finance and which not. Invest in services, facilities, education, health, and whatever it deems necessary. He would practically manage the economy of his country in complete autonomy.
If there is inflation, simply raising taxes would bring it back.
But if the money is borrowed, and must be repaid at a usury rate, it is clear that a state will never be able to make autonomous decisions, nor invest where and when it wants.
Instead, it will have to submit to strict rules imposed by those who lent it the money, in this case the ECB, and therefore the Europe that controls it.
The expression of the German banker Mayer Amschel Rothschild is significant: “give me the management of a country’s money and I will no longer care who makes its laws”.
We have also seen what happens to states that do not respect these rules, for example Greece.
When the money is no longer even enough for the necessary, the state will begin to cut essential services for the public and sell off its assets. Something that has been happening in Italy for at least 30 years.
Famous is Cossiga’s statement (former President of Republic of Italy) of a few years ago in which he defined the former governor of the Bank of Italy Mario Draghi, “a vile businessman… liquidator of Italian public industry”.
And in fact he then became prime minister in a period of financial crisis.
Returning to us, after what we have seen, it has some logical value to toil eight hours a day, sacrificing our time and our lives, knowing that a good part of all that hard-earned money will be used to repay the public debt (translated, it will literally end up burned in the fireplace)?

TURNOVER
A reversal of the current functioning of the money production system would be necessary.
Do not let third parties issue the money but let it be an entity under strict state control.
Money should be issued to the worker’s credit, as is its intrinsic value.
It makes no sense to repay someone for a service with a debt, but rather with a credit.
Once the state has repossessed its monetary sovereignty, on which consequently all the others depend, such as the legislative one, an adjustment of salaries to the cost of living would be appropriate.
An adjustment of the time spent at work with the time we spend with family members, and with our interests and hobbies. This could be called a decent life.
A drastic reduction in taxes, the purpose of which should only be to control inflation.
What sense does it make for a state to give a salary to an employee and then subtract 40-50% in taxes from it, when it itself produces that credit?
There should be greater awareness on the part of the worker of the role he plays.
He should no longer have that mental predisposition to an ever greater gain aimed at enrichment for its own sake.
Instead, he should serve the community with his own expertise or knowledge, with which he will be rewarded with a salary commensurate with his needs in his life.
There should be a willingness for everyone to build a self-sufficient and collaborative society, which no longer needs to borrow money from outside entities.

DOUBLE DECEPTION
How many times have we heard self-styled experts tell us on TV that the public debt is due to our lascivious and spendthrift behavior, as well as the fact that we worked too little to retire too early and that we lived beyond our means?
They are all lies to distract us from the real problem which is the wear and tear we have been suffering for years.
Does it seem normal to you that someone tells you that as soon as your children are born they have to pay off a debt of 50,000 euros with the state(1)?
The same state which then complains about the fact that there are not enough births to replace today’s old population(2).
Isn’t it that perhaps it itself is in some way instigating us not to have progeny so as not to burden them with the already too many problems that weigh on us?
One might say a somewhat schizophrenic state.
It seems a bit like hearing the religious sermon that accuses us of being sinners and invites us to repent from the moment we were born.
So not only are we exploited and deprived of our time, but then all the problems deriving from a bad management of the state machine are unloaded on us by the parasites that we regularly find in the government.
Is it still possible to accept all these lies and live a life based on them?

RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS AND FOUNDATIONS
Very often we see advertisements on TV for donations to organizations and foundations to support research on rare diseases or, on the contrary, those that are increasingly widespread.
We often see fundraising marathons to support these realities.
Assuming that everything we have seen above is true, and it certainly is, why doesn’t the state take charge of supporting these researches given that the moral obligation to protection of the health of the community by the state?
Isn’t it, at this point, somewhat hypocritical to beg for money from the already harassed workers who are struggling to make ends meet, when it would be enough to simply ask those who have the power to issue it with a simple click on a button on a keyboard?
In reality, it should be the state that supports these foundations as a body responsible for protecting the fundamental rights of citizens, and health, as well as research, certainly are.
It should be quite clear by now that there is no will on the part of those who manage power and wealth to help citizens.
If we then go to inform ourselves and see who founded and manages these associations, the names of unsuspected appear, often beings who hate humanity.

THE ILLUSION OF CHOICE
The system has convinced us that this is today’s world. It works like this because everyone does it, and it offers us a myriad of examples with TV, advertising, films, series, artists, singers and actors, and even gossip.
These examples tell us that to be happy we must be rich, make money, have an expensive car, a house in a prestigious neighborhood, designer clothes, etc. Then we have to attend certain clubs, certain structures, gyms, clinics, schools, etc.
But obviously it doesn’t tell us that we will never become rich, also because if everyone stopped working, this system would fall like a house of cards.
But we continue to work with the illusion that one day we will have more money and we will be able to afford the things touted by the system.
They have conditioned us to achieve all these things that will make us feel rich, better and accepted by society.
We have been convinced that belonging to a certain social status is the reason for our existence, and we work all our lives to achieve it.
We’ve been convinced that all this stuff will make us happy, and most likely when we’ve reached the top of the social ladder, which rarely happens, we’ll realize that we’re more miserable than when we had nothing.

CONSUMPTION
All this leads us to another trap we all fall into which is the compulsive purchase of always new, latest generation, trendy or fashionable things.
To be able to afford it, we are willing to work more, to work overtime if necessary, and therefore to sacrifice more life time.
Advertisements convince us that we always need new things, that car, that bag, that smartphone…
As if that weren’t enough, they continuously bombard us with messages and problems relating to the emergency on duty, such as global warming, energy shortages, the food crisis, often set-piece stuff, pushing us to buy other things or change the ones we already have, such as for example the electric car instead of the combustion engine one, perhaps forcing us to take out another mortgage that cages us in for years.

SOCIAL TRAPS
The traps probably we all fall into, and almost always without realizing it, is to use our little remaining time, the extra work, in distractions or useless activities.
A striking example for italian people is football.
But there are countless, just by way of example, gambling, the game sheet, the lottery, political campaigns, religious activities, compulsive shopping, and the icing on the cake is television which encompasses them all together.
Unfortunately, even today the majority of people do not realize that they waste all their free time with so many distractions.
Therefore, they no longer have any time to devote to research, reading, gaining the right experiences, because all the time beyond that is spent at work.
As if that weren’t enough, they have also recently introduced women’s football, so women too know how to waste extra work time.
Insights into football and media politics are a further extension of this.
Even participating in religious functions and becoming a devotee of this or that other saint leads to a huge expenditure of time and energy.

HOW MUCH IS OUR TIME WORTH?
Very often, I would say almost always, we delegate the decision to others.
The trend is more or less this, we look at others and decide accordingly. If Tom and Dick work in that company for that pay, it means that it is good pay.
But who actually really decided how much an hour of our time is worth? Probably if you think about it more deeply you end up saying the market, the economy, the GDP of our country, the competition and other abstract entities.
At this point, knowing the economic conditions we find ourselves in, we understand that even the pay that gives value to our time is indirectly conditioned by the vicious circle of public debt.
From this we also deduce that we are cheated of our time for the simple fact that someone else, or something else, has decided its value, in a completely arbitrary way, based on saving logics that we did not want.
And also, if we were to decide, we would have to align ourselves with the competition in order not to be excluded from the market, and as we reiterate it is all aimed at saving, because as we have seen we are immersed in an economy based on debt, it follows that the competition also adjust by drastically lowering prices.
With this discourse we do not want to encourage consumption, or the waste of resources and services, but only to highlight that an economic system based on debt is fallacious, it does not lead to a psycho-physical well-being of the person but on the contrary hinders the full development of the human person, as sanctioned by article 3 of the italian Constitution.
An economic system based on credit, on the other hand, would not run into all these problems, it would not force human beings to sell off their time and consequently feel like slaves to a job. Nor would it force them to deprive them of what they need, such as expensive treatments, healthy food, better services, such as schools, clinics, aged care facilities, competent professionals.
The majority of people, on the other hand, are forced to rely on what an indebted state offers cheaply, with poor services, very long queues, unprepared professionals and dilapidated structures.
Something partly wanted to encourage the very expensive private structures and largely a consequence of the debt mentioned above.

THE DROP THAT OVERFLOWS THE VASE
Good or bad, aware or not, we are all in the same condition. Or in the same boat, if you prefer.
Some might suggest that it pays to stay in the current gears if we still want to keep the boat afloat.
But if the system is rotten and we are perfectly aware of it, does it make sense to continue to keep it standing thanks also to our contribution?
In addition to being victims, don’t we also feel a little accomplices?
However, it can happen that one suddenly awakens from the numbness due to normality and “this is how it is done because it has always been done this way”.
And that is when despite all the hours spent at work, despite the little time we have left to live, despite not being able to afford any luxury, despite all the months we are punctual in paying bills and deadlines of all kinds, the moment in which the salary money is not even enough for the strictly necessary, and it may happen that you are not able to pay a trivial gas bill or not be able to do the shopping for your family.
So then the suspicion creeps into us that something is not right and that in fact all those sacrifices we have made over the years have not led to any improvement. We then begin to see ourselves from the outside and to perceive our condition as a prison.
Not only are we not free to live but we are not even free to live our slavery carefree. Perhaps the only thing that still kept us good and servile towards this system.
Then a spring takes place where you no longer want to participate in the games. You just want to turn the tables and reclaim your time.
In that case it could happen that you leave your job to look for an alternative or maybe you try to start your own business to have more autonomy in managing your time.

BRAVERY AWARD
However, let us remember that when we are old and we are on a deathbed, no one will give us a bravery award for having sacrificed our entire life for the company, for society, for a cause we think is greater, or simply for make money.
All our sacrifices will have been in vain and no one will even remember our existence.
Instead, it is more probable that our soul will give us a good kick in the ass to project us into a new reincarnation, to start over, since we have not understood anything in this life.

WORK LESS TO PRODUCE MORE
Some might protest that there are some specialist jobs such as doctors or engineers, which cannot be touched and must remain within the current parameters.
However, this does not mean that making these professionals work fewer hours would be wrong. By working less, according to this article(3) they could work even better. Furthermore, if a professional works 4 hours instead of 8, the other 4 hours could be left to a colleague, thus also affecting unemployment, and improving the lives of both.
They should aim to pay for the quality of work, not the quantity.
If something like this were applied in all sectors of society we could reduce unemployment which in Italy in 2022 stood at almost 5 million people(4).

LIVE TO MAKE MONEY OR MAKE MONEY TO LIVE?
The enormous paradox in which we are immersed is that we live, and therefore work, to make money, we don’t make money to live.
The ultimate aspiration of everything we do is to accumulate wealth, perhaps a little more than others, hoping to achieve happiness in this way.
We are not used to thinking, I want to live this way and in order to succeed I invest all my money and energy.
This is because they have accustomed us to it, and this in all contexts, at school, in the family, at pub talk, in the films we watch, that what matters most is money, because this gives you everything you want, including happiness .
We forget one small detail, that money is just a tool.
And it’s not guaranteed to succeed.
The hoe can help the farmer have a nice, luxuriant vegetable garden, but it certainly doesn’t do the job for him.
We do most of the work within ourselves.
We have to cultivate the right thoughts, do the things we like to do, meet people we are in tune with, nurture a deep respect for ourselves and others, and to do all this we certainly don’t need money.

LIGHTEN UP
Let’s start by eliminating all the superfluous. We don’t buy things we don’t need. We don’t buy services we don’t need. If we can afford it, we use the bike and sell the car.
All the money we’re going to save will actually make us feel rich. Then eventually we evaluate how to reappropriate part of our time. Maybe changing the working regime. Or finding a job that gives us more free time.

TIME WELL SPENT
Let’s use the little free time we have in research, study, reading and deepening, spiritual growth and awareness, that is the only true riches that increase consciousness.
But we also have all those experiences that are worth having.

TIME IS MONEY
What is worth more and which is priceless, because it is impossible to buy, or recover when lost, is precisely time.
But I would rather say that being able to have your time to do what you want is priceless.
The person who has the most time at his disposal is the richest even without knowing it.
There is a film entitled “In Time”, where in a dystopian future the currency of society becomes time, and the richest are precisely those who have more time at their disposal and therefore live longer.
If you think about when you were 25 and wished you could do things you haven’t done, you know there’s no going back. And very likely, if you had capital aside, you would give it all in exchange just to be able to return to your youth to make the right choices.
But this also applies to the present time, even if we are not used to thinking about it.
How are we spending our time now? Are we sure we’re not wasting it? Isn’t it that in 10 years we will regret how we spent it?
The only sure thing is that we will never get it back. So it is necessary that we make our own the famous phrase of Horace, Carpe diem, or live the present moment.
Which doesn’t mean partying all day long, but being aware of the present moment and living it intensely in the way we think is best.
Eckart Tolle, one of today’s most famous spiritual writers, gives us a good example of how to enjoy the present in his book The Power of Now.
Money comes and goes, and it’s wrong to give too much importance to it.
Time just goes away. And there is no currency, commodity or wealth that can buy it back.
Let’s make the right choices today, in this moment, right now.
Let’s stop wasting our time.

(1)https://codacons.it/italia-il-debito-pubblico-e-sempre-piu-alto-a-quanto-ammonta/
(2)https://www.adnkronos.com/italia-nel-2023-cala-ancora-la-popolazione-i-dati-istat_383oQ7g0mppVF9CO49JzRx
(3)https://alleyoop.ilsole24ore.com/2018/10/04/se-si-lavora-meno-tempo-si-produce-di-piu-e-si-sta-meglio-ecco-le-prove/?refresh_ce=1
(4)https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/tra-disoccupati-e-scoraggiati-quasi-5-milioni-persone-inserire-lavoro-AEfFloKC