Wage slavery island.

Imagine an island with 100 married couples without children totalling 100 men and 100 women.

They agree to make a map of the island in which they draw 200 imaginary sections, one section for each person and two sections for each married couple.

They then create objects out of trees and call these objects tokens.

They then have children and send them to school where they teach them how to learn the knowledge they need to have jobs in the real world in order to get tokens.

Once the children reach a certain age they say now that you are done with school, you need to work hard and earn a living I can no longer let you stay here for free.

All the original 100 married couples end up renting land to the other couples children in exchange for these tokens.  When the children ask how come you do not have to work to pay rent they say I already worked hard to own the land but it you purchase my land for a hundred thousand tokens you will not have to pay rent if you save up and work hard like I did.  But all the tokens left on the island are up to less than a hundred thousand tokens yet there were too many for the children to count to know that.

So the parents relax while the children do all the work but are made to feel guilty for a lack of work ethic.

But the parents never had to earn the tokens they just created them and they never worked to earn the land they just claimed it belonged to them before the children were born.

Copyright Carl Janssen 2018 May 4