Just a thought!  We put our hopes in the corporate and it cost us our 
freedom.  If we learned to live with less we'd have more.
   It was so easy.  I just took it for granted that I'd go to work each 
day and get a paycheck each week.  The paycheck was freedom.  It was the 
freedom to buy what I wanted.  It was the freedom to not rely on others 
for anything and the pride to take care of myself.  It gave me power to be 
somebody of value as I went about and spent the money I earned.  The only 
price for this freedom was work.  Work where I gave up all my rights.  I 
was nobody at work.  I had no value other that the tasks I was assigned.  
The trade off was unquestionable.
   Society as a whole adopted the corporate way: freedom at night, slavery 
during the day (at work).  The worst of it was the limits imposed on us.  
We had no access to resources and the paycheck was limited to our skill 
set designed by the corporate institutional hierarchy to use for its 
profit.
   People reveled in their pride and arrogance.  The more the corporate 
environment gave them for your skill set the more they were worth to 
society.  The more you could buy the more valuable you were, the more 
powerful, the smarter you were, after work.  Heaven forbid you quit 
earning.  In our personal arrogance it was inconceivable that we would 
ever quit earning and those who did not earn a paycheck were branded as 
undesirables and misfits.  Then when we got old we were categorized with 
statistics as not useful and not worthy of a paycheck.
   The rest of society that was still useful to corporate turned away and 
ignore those who had no corporate value.  They grew to endorse the 
corporate way even stronger and looked the other way when the useless 
walked by, when values were assigned and when new laws were made.
   If only life were simple and we had access to our resources, to build, 
to eat and to market.  I think we'd all be a little more valuable to each 
other and we would respect the wisdom of our elders.