I watched a feature on Bangladeshi women working themselves for twelve hours for barely less than US$1 per day, putting one hair strand at a time into a wig under poor lighting. I saw the same in China, workers working themselves for barely any money.

The psychotic thing is, there can be many useful things to do all around them, but they can’t seem to see it unless someone offers them a job title around it and pays them to do it.

Not only that, this work can be given out by some of the scummiest, shadiest people, under the worst working conditions, and these people will still act like their lives have been saved.

They are willing to do the worst types of jobs, the most useless, wasteful uses of their energy, as long as they can say they have a job and they have wages.

And yes, I call it useless work if the woman and her family are not flourishing from it. Even if someone truly needs a wig!

The buyer may benefit. The employer may benefit. But what is happening to the woman who spends twelve hours making it? Is her family flourishing? Is she gaining time, security, health, or greater capability?

The Job Title Makes the Work Visible

They would never think to plant a garden for themselves. But if someone says, “Take this hoe and use it to turn over the dirt, then put the seeds in, or just scatter these seeds, and I will pay you 10 cents an hour,” they gladly and proudly do it.

But let them have to do it out of their own initiative, for themselves or their family, and they just can’t see the value of doing it.

Or they can recognize the useful work independently, but they’ll sit and fold their hands at their jaws, making excuses that they don’t have money to start.

Get pots and get soil! Grow food in the pots. You can grow sweet potatoes, potatoes, grapes, and plenty of other things in containers.

Same for creating a playground for their child. They could have the space and only need to exert a bit of thinking, but they will never do it.

But let someone else tell them that there is a job, and this job entails putting four wooden posts together to form a square, then shoveling some sand into the square, then getting two or three used tires and sticking them into the ground and filling them with sand, and you will get a day’s wage for it.

Then they can see it!

That is the money-minded zombie mindset I’m talking about. The person has the hands, the brains, and sometimes even the materials, but needs an employer to announce that the work is worth doing.

Where Is Your End Goal?

If you truly value feeding your children, why aren’t you searching high and low for seeds, seedlings, soil, pots, or whatever useful resources you can find?

You may need to take the job to meet immediate needs. You may feel overwhelmed by farming and not know where to start.

But where is your end goal?

You can recognize useful work, have talents and abilities, and still refuse to exercise initiative because nobody has offered you wages.

You hate the job, but remain there year after year, making no serious effort to improve your circumstances.

How sustainable is that?

Inflation may rise faster than your wages. You may eventually find yourself paying more to get to work than the work is worth.

And some people can produce endless excuses for why they cannot do anything differently.

I had this very debate with ChatGPT.

That thing has the processing speed to create endless excuses for the woman or worker. I don’t have the time or processing speed.

Thank God I don’t! Because then this article would never get written, nothing would get done, and these women and ChatGPT would still be making wigs and making excuses.

Come Work for Me, Then!

I have enough things to get done to employ the world.

While the world still needs to detox from its money-minded zombie mindset and really doesn’t qualify to be Trott Bailey Family Civilization citizens, you can all be employees.

I will treat you much better than any employer, except I won’t pay you in money.

I will pay you in free food, free housing, and free time to detoxify your psycho money minds.

I don’t give a fuck. It’s called free will. If you want to come freely and work for the benefits, then come. Nobody is forcing anyone.

I’m only speaking to you in a language your money-hungry, work-oriented brains can understand.

You may not understand that I’m your ruler and you are my subjects, but you may understand that I’m your employer. Just don’t expect any money.

And if you do understand the ruler-and-subject relationship, you may still need detoxifying from your money mindset.

My jobs are plentiful and diverse. We have an entire civilization’s worth of useful things to do. Farming is only one example.

And here’s why I call you employees rather than citizens. I am not simply giving the same relationship a different name. I am meeting you at the level of understanding you already have.

You understand employers. You understand employees. You understand showing up for work and receiving compensation. You’ve spent so long waiting for somebody to put a price on useful work that you can hardly recognize its value without one.

So fine. I’ll speak your language while you learn another.

Except the compensation won’t be money. You’ll have food, housing, and free time, and an opportunity to discover what else your own brains, hands, talents, and initiative can accomplish.

You cannot carry that money-minded zombie mindset into the Trott Bailey Family Civilization as a citizen. You need time to detoxify.

The employment arrangement is your transition. You can begin contributing in a form you understand while gradually learning to live without needing wages to tell you what is worth doing.

Four Hours of Shubaka

Here’s how it works.

Through our Pacorips digital interface, you choose your four hours of Shubaka for the week in whatever service area is currently calling for contributors.

If you’re more interested in a permanent or semi-permanent position, you can do your four hours and go home.

Anything extra is because we practically have to beat you off to go home because you love what you’re doing, not because you’re being forced.

We have plenty of people, plenty of capabilities, and plenty of useful work. Why exhaust one person when the work can be shared?

And think what happens when a woman who once spent twelve hours a day inserting hair strands into wigs now has food, housing, and time with her children.

She is no longer spending most of her waking hours chasing the money needed to keep her family alive. She has time to notice what needs doing around her, and to do it without waiting for someone to offer a wage.

She Will Naturally Think

ChatGPT argued that my employees would simply exchange one employer for another. That I would issue instructions, they would monotonously follow them, and collect free food and housing instead of wages.

But that assumes I employ people like every other employer.

Just her having free time and no worries about food and feeding her children, she will naturally think.

Naturally start having ideas of her own.

This is what it means to be human!

She may notice something she wants to grow, build, repair, improve, or create for her family.

She doesn’t have to wait for somebody to attach a wage to it.

She has time to use her brains, her talents, and her imagination.

I don’t have to manufacture these capabilities in her. They are already human capabilities.

And one day she may find herself doing all sorts of useful things that nobody has employed her to do. She sees the value of the work for herself, her children, and her household.

That is the awakening I’m looking for.

She has begun to understand useful work outside the employer-and-employee relationship. She is no longer waiting for money to give her permission to use her own capabilities.

Now the ruler-and-subject relationship can begin to make sense to her.

The employment arrangement has served its purpose when she demonstrates the character, judgment, and initiative required for citizenship.

Citizenship Is Not Hard

Why should I, World Ruler Sher, take you as a citizen when you’re so willing to sell yourself short, unwilling to exercise your own initiative, and content to spend years directing your capabilities toward somebody else’s miserable wages?

Come work for me first.

Citizenship in the Trott Bailey Family Civilization is not hard.

I require faithful spouses, demonstration of good character, and demonstration of capability and utilizing said capabilities for the flourishing of yourself and family first, and then the wider civilization.

And when you do so, it’s reciprocated back to you in return.

Everyone has different capability levels and interests. I don’t expect all to contribute at the same level.

A husband and wife who faithfully raise their children, care for their home, grow food, and help their neighbours are already contributing.

Others may build houses, invent machines, cultivate vast areas, or develop civilization systems.

All have different abilities and interests.

The marriage standard remains unchanged. Husband and wife, married and faithful to each other.

And when you’ve demonstrated these things, you can graduate from being my employee to becoming my citizen.

You no longer need to understand me merely as an employer who gives you work and compensation. You can understand me as your ruler and yourself as my subject, participating in a civilization where people use their capabilities because they recognize the value of what they can accomplish.

That is why I offered employment before citizenship in the first place.

So yes, I have enough work to employ the world.

And if you’re still stuck in your money-minded zombie mindset, come work for me.

You may find that once you have food, housing, free time, and useful things to do, your own mind begins showing you what else you can accomplish.

And when you’re ready, the employer-and-employee relationship can give way to the ruler-and-subject relationship.