Only Rest for the Wealthy

Most of the time that I have received the most backlash has been when I was in very little authority to change my situation. People can say, “Everything is a mindset!” until they are blue in the face, but nobody lives in a vacuum. Conversely, I was told that I should never rest while managing to do what I could to “be better,” and if anyone saw me resting, there would be a storm that makes an EF5 look like a temper tantrum. The dominant narrative is clear: if folks cannot make a lot of money, they deserve to be exploited.

Has anyone ever noticed that wealthy people demand that people provide more profits while not feeding either salary or lowered pricing to initiate more spending? They have heard multiple times that people cannot produce blood from stones, but they keep insisting that we all lack financial management skills. Such a mindset is delusional, but because they hoard resources, we can anticipate more of their expecting others to meet demands without following through on the needs of others.

Meanwhile, there is constant corporate-sponsored gaslighting into thinking that rest is irresponsible, and the government cosigns by telling everyone that we owe it to the hoarders to keep them comfortable. A lack of maternity leave, minimal paid sick, and constantly keeping folks on the clock has lulled the “elites” into a sense of that nonsense being acceptable, and not nearly enough comfortable people have been standing up for what is right. Chastising the poor for not working harder is not true leadership, but laziness dressed up in the costume of designer clothes.

Furthermore, it is past time to stop telling people that the response to being exhausted is that they are all moral failures. Statistics dictate that the majority of a population cannot be lazy, and trying to project insecurities on the entire imperial population is just asking for collapse. The truth is that running everyone into the ground is just making more sick and poor people, not more money, and the “elites” are being confronted with the realization that a lot of this dysfunction is entirely on their shoulders.