Is Your Dignity For Sale?’ They Asked

Everything may be for sale, including ourselves, but that doesn’t mean we need to participate

Photo by Xiaolong Wong

I just found this bit of writing from almost two years ago, when I witnessed something at work that made me literally sick.

Some seem to think they can buy the respect of others, but this is akin to buying our own book — nobody will actually read it.

Anyway, I thought I would simply transcribe what I wrote in my personal blog that day:

Our current economic system allows us to sell anything and buy anything. ‘Anything’, in this instance, can be taken to the very limits of its meaning. Anything means everything.

We can sell our silence and our discourse, we can sell our dignity and our freedom, we can sell hopes and dreams, we can certainly sell ideas, we can sell our bodies and our brains (most of us do or have done that at some point: we call it having a job), and we can even sell friends and foes.

And buy? Well, we can buy all of the above and more, so long as we have the money, which takes us back to step one: sell anything you can in order to make the cash so that the cycle may continue.

But it doesn’t have to be like this. We don’t have to be like this. Just because we…