I Exist to Provide Labor

I exist to provide labor to my employer. In return I receive just enough money to provide for basic shelter, food, and transportation so I can return the next day and labor for my employer again. I will do this day after day and be thankful for the privilege. I will do this week after week. Month after month and year after year until my health and body can long provide value to my employer. Then I will die.

A bleak hand-drawn face appears beside a paragraph describing a worker who spends their entire life laboring for an employer in exchange for basic necessities, ending with “Then I will die.” The joke is the exaggeratedly honest, nihilistic summary of wage labor and the meaninglessness of endless work, often shared as a reaction to burnout, capitalism, or having to return to work. EN: A bleak hand-drawn face appears beside a paragraph describing a worker who spends their entire life laboring for an employer in exchange for basic necessities, ending with “Then I will die.” The joke is the exaggeratedly honest, nihilistic summary of wage labor and the meaninglessness of endless work, often shared as a reaction to burnout, capitalism, or having to return to work.

• @eternalclassic / 56701 2024-09-01