What To Do When You’re Redundant
This economy doesn’t need you.
This world doesn’t need us.
Imagine a small village. In this village, every person contributes to society. There’s a farmer, a truck driver, a gun salesman, and a butcher. Every one of those people is essential. If one of them dies — or goes out of business — the whole ‘economy’ suffers. These people supply the economy with essential goods and services, and without them, it doesn’t work.
Extrapolate that onto the world at large, and you get a planet that’s one big village. Every person is a cog — a linchpin, even — in this economic machine.
This is what the economy used to be in the 19th and 20th centuries.
But not anymore.
Today, most people and jobs are redundant. We don’t need them. Thanks to technological, scientific, and economic progress, we have created the global infrastructure that creates abundance for most people living in the developed world.
We don’t have to hunt to get food; we can buy it in stores. We don’t even have to go out to get anything; it can be delivered via Amazon Prime in just 24 hours. Heck, we don’t even have to do anything — cheap credit is prevalent in most western societies. Just get a card and spend it.
