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| ISSUE NO. 704 |
| THE ENERGY OF THIS TIME . . . is full to bursting. The burden of what we carry, as a collective, is filled with joy and grief, and it is weighted, regardless of which one rules the moment. Yesterday, many of us in the United States celebrated 'Labor Day', a holiday rooted in uprisings and actions demanding fair working conditions for the working class. Unregulated capitalism and consumption culture have always gone hand in hand, but on this particular day, the contrast of how people making the most money receive a day off to be served by those who are already doing the most physical and emotional labor in their jobs, is stark. We find ourselves thinking about the word growth: what is it, really? And if it must be perpetual, how does that differ in the spiritual realm versus the physical, for example? It seems obvious that our culture is applying a singular idea of growth to an experience that is highly differentiated. We are a job search engine. Labor means a lot of different things to us. Perhaps our greatest founding value, and a lesson we've continually learned more about over the years, is: there is no one way to work. One of the ways we work with you, our dear community, is as a collective. We know you're here because, like us, you are - or want to be - aware of how normalization of excessive growth comes at the cost of human exploitation and harm. Perhaps you've only noticed a slight discomfort in your own working environment, cluing you in to the idea that something is off. Or maybe you've been at it for decades, searching and trying and experimenting and failing and trying again, to find solutions that are more human. Regardless of your background, we know you have the imagination and the drive to to work toward a better way.
photo by Christine Han |
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