Why Should I Labour for What Disappears?
Why Should I Labour for What Disappears?
The salary vanishes. The orchard remains. One system eats human labour every month. The other allows labour to take root, multiply and feed generations.
I am not afraid of labour.
I refuse labour that disappears.
The old system sends me into a clogged city to work for money so I can buy food at prices that keep rising.
I labour.
The salary arrives.
The landlord takes some.
Transport takes some.
Electricity takes some.
Food takes the rest.
The month ends.
Nothing is growing.
Nothing is multiplying.
Nothing is waiting to feed me next year.
Then the system tells me to return tomorrow and do it again.
That is futile labour.
You wake up owing life again.
You work to eat.
You eat.
The money is gone.
Next week, you must earn permission to eat again.
You pay rent.
The month ends.
The payment is gone.
The building is still not yours.
The gate closes again.
You can labour harder every year and still become less able to feed, house or protect yourself because every price rises faster than your security.
Now compare that with planting an orchard.
I dig.
I plant.
I water.
I feed the soil.
I protect the young tree.
Then the tree begins working with me.
The mango tree grows.
The grapevine spreads.
The branches fill.
The harvest returns.
The work did not vanish into one month of survival.
I can see where my labour went.
It has leaves.
It has shade.
It is flowering.
It is holding fruit.
I can see the grape harvest.
I can see the mango trees flourishing.
I can see the pigs multiplying.
I can see the horses growing.
I can see the soil becoming stronger.
I can see the storeroom filling.
One system eats the labour. The other multiplies it.
Work.
Receive money.
Pay rent.
Buy food.
Pay transport.
Reach the end of the month.
Begin again from dependence.
Plant an orchard.
Improve soil.
Build water systems.
Raise animals.
Preserve harvests.
Acquire useful machinery.
Begin the next year with more capability.
When I care for animals, they grow.
When breeding is managed properly, they multiply.
When I improve soil, the next planting begins from stronger ground.
When I build a water system, the water keeps moving.
When I preserve food, one harvest continues feeding the family beyond its season.
When I acquire useful machinery, the next planting, harvest and processing cycle becomes easier.
The bill returns. The tree returns fruit.
The machines already exist.
The knowledge already exists.
This is not the year 1400.
I am not choosing between a city job and breaking my back all day with a rusty hoe.
The heavy work can be lifted.
The repetitive work can be mechanized.
The water can be pumped.
The harvest can be cooled.
The fruit can be dried.
The grain can be milled.
The food can be transformed.
The tools can be repaired.
The records can be kept.
That is not progress.
Billions of people are still being sent into cities to sit in traffic, stare at screens and chase money so they can buy increasingly expensive food from distant systems.
Why should a machine save labour for a corporation but not save labour for a mother?
Why should a tractor increase export output but not help families establish orchards?
Why should a dryer preserve commercial products while a village harvest rots?
Why should a cold room protect supermarket inventory while farmers lose food?
Why should modern technology make companies richer while ordinary families remain dependent?
Turn machinery toward family abundance.
The machine performs more repetitive labour.
The person receives more life.
I choose labour that remains.
Why should I pour the strongest years of my life into a system that eats every month and leaves nothing growing behind me?
Why should I work forever for food when my work can establish food-producing systems?
Why should I spend decades purchasing survival when I can spend those years building abundance?
Why should I labour in a clogged city so I can buy mangoes while my own mango trees could be growing?
Let my labour become roots.
Let it become orchards.
Animals.
Improved soil.
Water systems.
Machines.
Stored food.
Knowledge.
Let it become something my children can see.
Let it become something that continues working after today.
