Sisyphus’ Living Wage

Manipulation in modern economics is done by

Moving the line

Maintaining a sense of layered desperation in the population

The dirt floor, lower-mid, to lower, to mid, to upper-mid rungs etc.

Relative imaginations related to the idea of loss, success, happiness

In mythical derivations of compliance in a tiered hierarchy

To sustain order in place of tolerable chaos so that we as a species

Do not circumvent the social contract as the efficacies of technology increase

For in these mathematics one must ask the question

If machines, medicines, communication systems, energy and information

Are more effective and productive as hour-units of human labor

Why is desperation among the masses ever more disparate

When the amount of food to feed, energy to move, textiles to clothe, and bricks to house

Is the same given the basic size of a human?

There are more of us, living longer, yes, but

The basic algebra to sustain a single unit has never been at a lower quotient to achieve sustainability

Therefore we must ask why and how are we as a species perpetually

Moving the line?

Minimum wage laws by geographic region

Social welfare, grocery cart tabulations, employment statistics

Manual, information technological coding terabytes into terraforming

The way empathy is disseminated from the aggregated bank accounts

Of owners of publically traded firms hoarding the monetized labor of the masses

The amount constrained represents the pressure on the system to move the line

As the resources of the world are both consumed and created to never let the poor

Touch a level of affluence that may result in complacency that enough is enough

To have food, shelter, clothing, and the love of other humans and not

The next superfluous labeled product off the advertising assembly line

The lie is that we do not have enough to go around

The old Jesus tale of loaves and fishes has been non-literally true for ages

Ever more so with the acquired skills of the collective brain given the internet

But we choose to not share, to pressurize the system, to move the line

Out of justice, of earning, of rationalized understanding of ownership, of reward, of effort

Sinclair’s Jungle with an endless line of desperate hungry willing to replace a worker

To do more and be paid less simply to survive based on where the top of the pyramid

Places the line of awarding pellets of daily sustainability equating to how much do you want this