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If you say or think stuff like this. You have made a wrong choice. Doesn't mean working in general is a bad thing. It can give purpose. If work is your problem you probably don't have a job that suits you.
Wanting to live a free and creative life is not how this planet works, sadly, and it won't ever be like that. So you can either blame everything around you for being shit or take what you can get and make the best of it.
Life sucks, but complaining will not get you anywhere. The fact that you complain, after a holiday, means you have a privilege that many many people don't even enjoy. Not saying your troubles aren't true or invalid, but you can definitely improve if you want to.
When the slave claims his chains
So what should one do then? I mean surely you have an answer.
Keep in mind. I am confident that hearing something you don't like doesn't mean it's not true.
Unionize. It's the only proven way to improve working conditions.
Finally someone actually saying something.
But really just do something. Join a union, point out corruption. It's great to see so many people disagreeing with my comment just to upvote something absolutely empty but cool sounding like "a slave claims his chains". There is no slave here, don't make me look like a victim of a system I'm not a part of.
I truly feel like people here just want to whine about "the system" but don't dare speak up or do something about it. You have the power to change it. If you don't make that choice, then start accepting it. At least then you don't have to spend so much time on the internet whining about how hard it is to work after a holiday.
To be honest, I upvoted that too but can understand you're looking for something more concrete. They're referring to wage slavery, but awareness and unionization are each just one step towards abolishing it.
I think it's fair to vent and complain. Not everybody who identifies a problem needs to have an answer.
Just because you dont like what you see, doesn't mean you should try to find rational justifications to it. There are not.
What is to be done, indeed