Mon 10 Feb 2025 07:33:56 PM PST

A free day. It started last night, ... Sunday night. It happens
almost every Sunday night, the dread. It might have started
before the night. Just this feeling not enough free time, at
this point I'm not sure I even know what to do with free time.
It doesn't  feel right any more. There is always so much to do,
and there is never ever enough time to do it. I really wanted a
free day, and I used an excuse minor enough, the same excuse we
all use; health, my health needs more free time from work. I
struggle every dang day against it, work vs health, knowing work
is health, for without money there is no care for health, but
work itself takes health, and the longer a person works the more
health they've given. More health paid with free time coins. 

It took me a week to get this phlog going. Every day I thought I
had something to write, but by the end of the night I had ran
out of time, most of what was on my mind I thought I would just
write down, was gone the next day. I remembered enough to tell
someone last week. 

I ask why is everything so expensive? Today I bought 2 small
zucchinis, 2 heads of broccoli, cilantro, parsley. This small
amount of food doesn't even have enough calories in it for 1 man
for the day cost $13.85.

Why should food be a source of profit for people? I ask this
because its the very source of life and without life there
nobody to buy food, and intern no need to grow, care for, or
harvest food. 

I've been working for many years, and the primary goal where I
work is; make more money. This is expressed by a couple two
statements: increase shareholder value, increase efficiency. In
reality most of the time efficiency is achieved and I've
witnessed this myself, as a result more profits have been
obtained. A mental whip is cracked across our minds to automate
everything in order to increase efficiencies intern removing
people from the processes in order to increase shareholder
value. As I think about this, I think of the fields of grain
crops being harvested by a single man in a giant over priced
machine, bringing grains to market. I think of the past before
giant overpriced machines, there were many people in the fields
working to harvest food. With so much efficiency in this process
and so few people what on earth does the cost of food rise. The
same applies to many things manufactured, things are cheap
easier to make, but cost so much more than years ago when they
were harder to make. This doesn't include the idea of scarcity
because there isn't much these days but costs still don't drop. 

People like to say its inflation, but its not really inflation.
Its just people increasing the price for profit. Profit became
the goal, not making peoples lives better. I wonder if one day
we will all wake up to this and stop the lie about efficiencies,
I have my doubts that will happen. The leaders are corporations
drill this into the heads of their workers, the lie they tell
day after day to tell then turn and walk to the secret board
meetings and find a way to lie people there about how happy and
productive people are working to increase profits.