## THE WAGE SYSTEM the wage system has enabled generations of men and women to live while evading the question of life's meaning, by 'making themselves useful;' by 'making a career,' by 'serving.' The wage worker has always been free to postpone this question till later - till retirement, let's say- while leaving an honourable social life. There is a good reason why munch's [[Painting]], The Scream, portrays, still today the true face of contemporary humanity. What this desperate individual on their jetty doesn't find is an answer to the question, "how am I to live?" For capital, the disintegration of wage-earning society is an opportunity for reorganisation and a political risk. ==The risk is that humans might devise an unforeseen use of their time and their life, that they might even take to heart the question of its meaning.== It's as if we needed to work more as consumers in proportion as we work less as producers. As if consumption no longer signified a satisfaction, rather a social obligation. >"the modern world is not prostitutional through lust. it is quite incapable of that. ==It is universally prostitutional because it is universally interchangeable"== something prostitutional enters in wherever our social value reigns, wherever a part of ourselves is exchanged for the least remuneration, be it financial, symbolic, political, affective, or sexual." [[Living currency]] would be fully capable of being substituted for the role of the gold standard. ==everybody becomes an enterprising guided by a constant concern with self-valorisation, by a vital imperative of self-promotion...==**the anthropomorphises of capital- _ within each one of us capital is summoning the life force to work.'** This is the machination by which capital appropriates all the human attributes and by which "humans make themselves into the neutral support of capitalist valorisation". // without at least the occasional experience of community, we die inside, we dry out, we become cynical, harsh, desert-like. Our need for community is so pressing that after having ravaged all existing bonds, capitalism is running on nothing but the promise of 'community.' What are the social networks, the dating apps, if not that promise perpetually disappointed? what are all the modes, all the technologies of communication, all the love songs, if not a way to maintain the dream of a continuity between beings, where in the end every contact melts away? Opportunely, this frustrated promise intensifies the need, making it hysterical even, and accelerates the great cash machine of those who exploit it. Maintaining misery while dangling the possibility of escape is capitalism's great stratagem. In 2015, a single website of pornographic videos called pornhub was visited for 4,392,486,580 hours, which amounts to two and half times the hours spent on earth by Homo sapiens. Even this epoch's obsession with sexuality and its hyper-indulgence in pornography attests to the need for community, in the very extremeness of the latter's deprivation. BREAKING THE CIRCLE THAT TURNS OUR CONTENSTATION INTO A FUEL FOR WHAT DOMINATES US; LETS DESTITUTE THE WORLD