In a recent article concerning how work sucks the soul out of employees, I had stated:

“The work place is a dictatorship. In school, little children are taught that Mr. Hitler and Mr. Stalin were “bad people” and that dictatorship is outright evil. Yet, little do the children know that the entire reason they’re enrolled in public school is so that they come out perfect little slaves to an all encompassing corporate state.

At work, you’ve got a great big boss (the dictator) and a few mini-bosses beneath him (the leader’s generals). Beneath the mini bosses you’ve got supervisors (the Gestapo). And of course, beneath the supervisors are the “little people”, the slaves. The entire structure of the workplace is fashioned after dictatorships that have all since come and gone.”

Here are the top 7 reasons as to why work is slavery.

1.) In most workplaces, one has to announce to a supervisor that one is making a trip to the bathroom. In prison, one could just piss or dump whenever one feels the urge to do so.

2.) In most workplaces, one is required to wear a specified uniform- and maybe even a hat, name tag, and apron. In Nazi Germany, folks were required to wear uniforms too- specifically, the kids involved in Hitler’s Youth program.

3.) If one chooses not to work, cut-throat, social darwinian culture forces one into homelessness, poverty, malnourishment, hunger, and even death.

4.) In the United States, employers like to keep their employees just under “full time” status so as not to hand out any benefits. Even if one does get benefits, one is still forced to pay outrageous premiums for their health insurance. In Europe, all workers- including part timers- are required by the state to take at least six weeks paid vacation. Health insurance is also provided with absolutely no cost to the worker.

5.) Most people have a minimum of twenty percent taken from their paychecks by Uncle Scam. With s**tty roads, highways, bridges, and sidewalks- with poor education and inefficient public transportation- one is forced to ask, just where does that twenty percent taken from their paychecks even go?

6.) The so called “minimum wage” is a sick joke. How could anyone survive on $7.00 or so per hour? Considering the rising cost of oil, food, and shelter, minimum wage employees  just may as well consider themselves bondsmen on the order of the black slaves of yesteryear who were at least provided with food, clothing, and shelter- benefits that minimum wage employees would never receive from their overlords.

7.) Work crushes the soul and prevents truly talented folks from becoming all that they can be. When forty or more hours are spent slaving away, this leaves little time for gifted folks to explore life’s possibilities. How many Beethovens or Einsteins has the workplace thwarted by its very existence alone?