The world is about giving!

Waking this morning a few things were a bit clearer especially this. A central problem I seem to have had regards "employment". It was clear that while I had certain skills and abilities, I had to be "employed". So it seems that the responsibility for "employing" me fell to my "employer" and not me. So why were people not contacting me to ask for my employment? I have to advertise my skills. But this seemed odd. A slave has to look for his master! where is the sense in this?

Plus I am skeptical of the employment system because of its links to the capital system and the degradation of the planets resources.

But this morning having watched my own bosses I saw something. My bosses despite their vast salaries had to seek employment from their client. And, this customer, whilst being the largest of its type in the world, has to constantly seek employment from its customers. And these customers, these are the people like me who have to seek employment from their bosses.

So actually the whole system is a great circle of giving, each link in the chain willingly looking to the next to give what they can to it.

This is often only seen as the flow of money in the opposite direction, so that my bosses motivation in this (they say) was to make money, and with this in mind the designed a product and found a customer. But actually they were involved in giving their time and skills to this customer.

Howard Katz (extremely worth a read) has illuminated me to the idea that economics is not demand driven. As he points out, how often have we seen a kid crying in the supermarket, but for all his crying was anything actually produced?

Combine these two and you have an insight similar to the "Diamond Cutter". The world operates not through demand but through supply, and the willingness of people to give.

So my problem it seems has stemmed from a reluctance to give, and to keep my time for myself. This simple oversight had led ultimately to failures both at college, with "my muse" and most probably everywhere.

However it should be added that I don't think this undermines the path I have been on. There are many lines of inquiry here which may or may not be fruitful... time will tell.