Another Great Post!
BTW I ran the numbers before, to determine how many hours in my hourly work week are working to pay for government and those who do not work...for my right to work...etc.
So every Monday I know how far thru the week I must go... week...before the money I make is going into my pocket.
Of course that doesn’t include the consumer tax’s which also take another chunk...so you estimate that figure as well.
It really does make a difference when you realize how much of your work week is for “others”...
Good post....and food for thought!
Aw, shucks - - - thanks.
Glad it increased the activity of “your little gray cells.”
I too, used to consider what part of a year, month, or week that I could keep my own money.
Then I realized that I was not seeing the fourth dimension properly: I was deluding myself believing that THE GOVERNMENT was leaving me alone to work for myself for a highly productive, and for a long period of time.
WRONG! If my income rate changed due to a raise, promotion, new job, increased sales or productivity, etc., then I would have to go back and move up my previous date of “freedom.”
The effect was to increase my resentment to increased income because I was less “free” than before. I did not need that idea around as an incentive killer!
So I chose to use the % of just one work day, the basic building block of a work year.
Now I absolutely KNOW that THE BODY POLITIC wants me to work 100% of every 8 hour work day for them.
Thus, I am more acutely aware of how close to complete success they are, AND I no longer delude myself by thinking that I have a lengthy period of time when I am working for myself.
Time is moving like a trotting mouse, and the Jackboots of THE BODY POLITIC are moving as fast as a running rat.
BTW, a running rat runs at the rate of 40 MPH, and there are 40 work hours in a week - - - hmmmmm - - - ? NAH! Probably just a coincidence!