Reason №127 to why bringing another life into this world is a crime against humanity

"YOLO"
The necessity to work robs you of your life.
Let's do some simple calculations. There are 168 hours in a week in the Gregorian calendar. An average working week in the UK consists of 40 hours (based on a 9-5 basis). Scientists and doctors always say that a human needs 8 hours of sleep a day so that's 56 hours per week.
168-40-56=72.
72 hours. Only 72 hours is all the time an average person gets per week to live his or her life. Only 72 hours to experience all the wonders that human existence entails. 72 hours to cook and eat, 72 hours to run your errands, 72 hours to keep fit. 72 hours to fall in love, to fuck, and to break a heart. 72 hours per week to explore the world outside your front door, 72 hours per week to discover some wonderful literature etc etc. This list could go on indefinitely and the point is that 72 hours is simply not enough. Of course, one could opt to work less but then they would have significantly less disposable income and would have to sacrifice many material luxuries and even necessities, therefore for many, it is not an option. It seems as if humans are bred to sleep and work in order to keep the soul-less capitalist machine running. You are born, you have few years of somewhat blissful existence and then you are forced into educational institutions which often only provide you with the knowledge that is necessary for you to be able to function within the twisted mechanism without questioning the purpose, and straight after that, you are expected to step in line.

Consumer capitalism has provided us with many material wonders that are shoved down our throats and in order to possess them, we are told that we need to earn money and lots of it. From a young age, an artificial desire is indoctrinated to us in the shape of things for which we have no natural need yet we are brainwashed to believe that such items are essential to our day to day existence. An abundance of consumer goods has put the human race into a golden cage, we are slaves to our own desires. Some may not be content with having to work so much but hey, as long as you can put food on your table, you are not a threat. A fed man has no need to complain and a hungry one is too weak to rebel.

Nietzsche said that God is dead and that we have killed him. I say that Man is dead and Capitalism has killed him.

Capitalist system sees human beings as nothing but provisors of labour (physical, emotional, aesthetic, you name it) and vessels for carrying out financial transactions. In a nutshell, these are the basic human functions from a capitalist point of you: first you are born, then you learn some basic skills, then you spend your life working and buying unnecessary crap to keep the system going, you procreate to provide the system with another generation of slaves, a couple of package holidays in between all of that and then you're dead, hallelujah. Next, please!

We're all decent human beings, we are all good samaritans so why are we allowing this vicious cycle to continue? Why would a straight thinking person want to bring another life into such world, why would you give it another slave? Bob Black has suggested to destroy our consumer-based society and to also abolish work as the key function of human existence, as it is obvious that work dominates life not just under capitalist regimes but also within socialist societies. Bollocks to that. I say, let's take it a step further. Let's end procreation. Work (if you absolutely have to) as little as you possibly can, do a very shit job of it and spend your time doing whatever the hell you want. Draw, paint, write, create, travel, get wasted, love, fuck. Just always make sure you use protection. Get sterilised if you can't trust yourself or your partner. Live in a wooden tub on a diet of onions; it worked for Diogenes so why can't it for us?

Just enjoy the ride and observe as the 1% recoil in horror as they realise that the 99% is ceasing to exist. That'll show them.

Jah bless/Johnathan provides.


PS I'm very tired and drunk and it's 5am, for fuck's sake.