If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter. (Gotti or Gottman… I’m actually not sure. One of those… starts with a “G”)

Money is Imaginary!

Clint Rogers

Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in ‘changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them’; for the more the oppressed can be led to adapt to that situation, the more easily they can be dominated.

Paulo Freire

Well, we all get to decide for ourselves what’s real or not, I guess. Jordan Peterson says Pain is real. Yes. Philip K. Dick? Real is that which doesn’t go away, when you stop believing it. So you figure it out. What’s real. What’s bullshit. I’m no revolutionary. I’m just throwing some ideas out there. I just want a BOOK DEAL, and I want to go back to Russia. Really, I do. I’ve been screaming about this for years on Facebook. But I need that book deal. That Snowden fucker didn’t even finish college as far as I know. He got an Oliver Stone film, too. Pretty sexy.

But, Im still going to go ahead and say that People are More real than “Money” – Crypto… Dollars…. Rubles. Fucking whatever it is. People are more real than money.

I’m actually very grateful to have worked at the US Dept. of Labor after college in 2009. Met lots of interesting characters. the “Boss” there was really good at kissing ass and playing dumb. He talked a lot about being PROFESSIONAL, which I think means “in Denial”

Just think… the FLSA law, which was my main area of study while I was there, that stipulates overtime compensation for All workers in America was passed in 1938. But even these days…. so many business owners seem to be confused about when they need to pay their people “time and a half”

They’d rather pay a lolyer to talk to me for a few hours, just to get clear on this simple idea of “time and a half for hours over forty.” well sometimes it was a little more complex, but usually not. When someone steals a fistful of cash, we don’t seem to be confused about the situation, you know? We’ll pull a gun on someone if they take that Money. But when people’s sweat and tears…. are shed, and some asshole’s trying to muddy the situation, we need to BE PROFESSIONAL and have lots of meetings, and interviews, and really, really, really get clear on the fact that people are exploited. Why?

I had years of talking to therapists and social workers who kept trying to talk me into doing some bullshit job because I haven’t worked in years… or because I caught some bullshit misdemeanor somewhere. And I intuitively knew that I had to push back on their bullshit. You ain’t gonna get away with this, you lying piece of shit. But only this year, did I come across the Paulo Freire book, which explained to me my intuition. So think about it, for a while. I’ve said this elsewhere and I’ll say it again. I’m done acting. I’ll live in a tent if I have to, but you ain’t paying me enough to be an actor. I got skills, you know? I got 4 years of college drinking under my belt.