My dear daughter,
I was applying yesterday for an opportunity with a hospitality company in Munich. From the looks of it, they are after a candidate who will sacrifice themselves for no money, take high risks, work in a mental environment where everything has to be ready for yesterday and be ready to never have a work routine – everyday they have to deal with new and stressful crap.
It’s the opposite of what is considered healthy for every human being, except maybe for psychopaths. It’s no wonder there are 4 times more psychopaths in positions of risk and high responsibilities – they have no regrets in their decisions and care nothing about consequences or other people’s feelings.
Nowadays companies have a hierarchy much like the military. They worship a founder or CEO or administrator as a mystic prophetic figure. They claim to value creativity and innovation, but, in order to decrease risks, they will only hire specially tailored foot soldiers, with the correct number of qualifications from specifically accredited institutions. They pay little and expect every worker to be a cocaine-addicted cybernetic Shakespeare or Da Vinci. Shakespeare, however, was a genius because he was outside of the academic or aristocratic world. He wasn’t part of the status quo, he was an outsider, a non-conformist.
That’s capitalism today. Very few people keep all the profits and they usually inherit a fortune to start with. The rest has to sweat blood to become an employable drone who will work for food and a place to sleep, proudly displaying an ever poorer and super-focused education, to the point they become the world-class master in the supply chain logistics of the nail-polishing raw materials, with a fancy many-words title like “supply chain logistics specialist analytics officer of nail-polishing raw materials after marketing” and knows nothing else about any other subject, such as politics, History, exercising citizenship, how their smartphones work, etc.
And those who have no opportunity of ever becoming such a drone are doomed to misery – that would be about half of the world’s population today.
Love,
Dad
Aspergers Dad 