What Are You Worth?

The system is designed to support what is most profitable, and to break what is least profitable. The systems that are most profitable are propped up further by breaking the lesser profitable systems. For instance, in the sense of profitability of people, a doctor is worth more than a gas station attendant. We know that as humans they are equal. The jobs themselves have different profitability based on price point of service. But in the bigger reality the fuel industry has huge profitability, just as does the medical industry.

Worth, over all, is distorted by the middle man providing the skill or service. Few places still hire gas attendants, but we use more gas now than ever. Doctors are always in demand, and as society gets sicker, and automation takes over low income jobs, they will be in even more demand. Demand will raise the profitability for the doctor, the institution they work for, and the medical industry over all; that is until automation becomes more reliable and lucrative, and people grow further annoyed at dealing with other humans. Meanwhile, those who need the doctor to exist for their world to continue as-is, lose their subjective worth as they accrue debt; the person becomes subjectively worthless while propping up the profitability of the medical industry.

The system has realized they can make more profit off of sickness and death, then they can promoting preventative health. People pay for health care; health care products, medicines, elective surgeries, insurance, deductibles, etc. Doctors pay large sums of money for their own insurance, legal representation, accounting, and promotion. Being a doctor is going to be more profitable to the over all system, as a worker bee, than say, a disabled veteran. In fact, that disabled veteran is more profitable as a patient than an average disabled person with no military connection. The military industrial complex is highly profitable and it is well funded and secure in recirculating funds to itself through it’s programs.

Even our laws are are made in such a way as to continue supporting systems that are most profitable to our government which acts as a corporation. The United States, itself is a corporate operation, and it’s supposed wealth and success pivot on that truth.

We are living in a time, where everyone is encouraged to become entrepreneurial,to build their brand and market themselves. It begs the question, “is this going to bite us in the ass, much like every system of survival that is promoted in the main stream?” I sincerely wonder going back to the idea that the larger systems function in a way where it is always looking to co-op or kick out the little guy.

Again I will bring up Youtube. All these people have a voice, but that voice can easily be squashed if any of the content is offensive to advertisers; so you don’t really have a platform for free speech, per se. Even if you don’t take the AdSense route, you are still at the mercy of flags and strikes by anyone registered on the platform. So technically, Youtube co-oped viewers and contributors, along with large companies with large budgets, to promote an agenda. If you work against that agenda, you get kicked to the curb, loosing hours of work in the end, if they completely delete your channel, and you don’t have it backed up.

Even today, some contributors complain that videos that they uploaded were mysteriously deleted off their accounts, with no explanation.

We really need to think about our worth as more than an hourly wage, or a salary. We need to look at what we are choosing to offer the world and what we choose to take from the world and embed ourselves with.

Worth (adj)

Old English weorþ “significant, valuable, of value; valued, appreciated, highly thought-of, deserving, meriting; honorable, noble, of high rank; suitable for, proper, fit, capable,” from Proto-Germanic *werthaz “toward, opposite,” hence “equivalent, worth” (source also of Old Frisian werth, Old Norse verðr, Dutch waard, Old High German werd, German wert, Gothic wairþs “worth, worthy”), perhaps a derivative of PIE *wert- “to turn, wind,” from root *wer- (2) “to turn, bend.” Old Church Slavonic vredu, Lithuanian vertas “worth” are Germanic loan-words. From c. 1200 as “equivalent to, of the value of, valued at; having importance equal to; equal in power to.”

Worth (n.)

Old English weorþ “value, price, price paid; worth, worthiness, merit; equivalent value amount, monetary value,” from worth (adj.). From c. 1200 as “excellence, nobility.”

Worth (v.)

“to come to be,” now chiefly, if not solely, in the archaic expression woe worth the day, present subjunctive of Old English weorðan “to become, be, to befall,” from Proto-Germanic *werthan “to become” (source also of Old Saxon, Old Dutch werthan, Old Norse verða, Old Frisian wertha, Old High German werdan, German werden, Gothic wairþan “to become”), literally “to turn into,” from PIE root *wer- (2) “to turn, bend.”

We derive our sense of self worth when we feel useful, important, vital. We are told we must earn our worth, and we act as such in the world.

But worth is not specific when it comes to the more esoteric sense of innate worth. That each person is worth “something” and all men are created equal. We do not live within a system which values or supports equality, even though we would like to believe that it does.

Take for instance, days long ago, when people wove their own fabric. It was a tedious task that took a long time, but as one became a master of the task, it would either go slightly faster, or the designs would become more intricate. Once large scale manufacturing of the same work was available, the worth of the craft shifted. Handmade became more expensive to produce, and those who couldn’t afford it, left the craft behind. It was now easier and cheaper to buy store bought clothes, than it was to take the time to make ones own clothes. And with the rise of manufacturing, people began replacing their clothes at a higher frequency, at times buying an outfit that may only be worn once. Once upon a time, a man may have only one suit that he would wear to weddings, funerals and Easter Dinner. Having a stocked wardrobe was left to those people in the higher echelons who could afford such frivolity. This has lead to the disposable nature we now exist within.

A man use to wear his jeans to work until they were filled with holes, and re-patched again and again… now people pay over a hundred dollars for purposely distressed jeans, that haven’t seen a day of hard labor.

So, what is worth, to you, and what are you worth? Are you disposable? Do accumulate material things to give yourself levity when feeling worthless? What do you give back to the world that matters? Is worth a tangible thing?

Well, I suppose that depends on your perception of life. If you feel value in humanity, if you feel value in yourself. If you feel you add value, and take value away; then worth of life is priceless. And if that resonates with you, take a look at how we are treated like chattel, and how systematically we are daily drained of our inherent worth through marketing tactics, and products marketed at making you feel better about yourself.

Nothing out there, tells you that you are worthy, just the way you are. A sad and heart breaking fact. We need to reattain an understanding of our worth as individual living creatures. Nothing around you will tell you this because it is an innate knowing that we subconsciously wrestle with until the day we bring it to the surface, and look at it straight in the face.

You are worthy of life. You are worthy regardless of what you have. Just keep yourself in check, and refrain from harming life. Bring your best to the table, allow that vulnerability. You, are the only You in this world. I’d say that means you are absolutely, Priceless.

Madge Midgely

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