A short monologue arguing that society programs people to sell their time, skills, and lives cheaply to enrich shareholders. The speaker urges valuing non-monetary benefits—happiness, pride, improving the world—over maximizing income, and frames shareholders’ gains as benefiting portfolios at the workers’ expense.
We are programmed to become poor. We are programmed to sell our time, our intelligence, to sell our qualifications, our skills, our lives. Literally. To sell them at a low price. To sell them to the forces of money. To make millionaires. And what will we tell you? We will tell you. Huh? It's like the story of the Argus and the car. The important thing in life is not to run after money. Huh? Leave the money to your lords. Ah, the idea. The most important thing in life is to sell your skills at the lowest price. But to derive a benefit from them. A benefit that cannot be measured by money. Being happy. A job well done. The pride of having done something good. The pride of improving the world. Okay, you are improving the world. While the shareholders are not improving the world, they are improving their portfolio. With your blood. With your energy. So I'll tell you something. With the forces of money. You talk about money. It's.