White men need to be a Boss, not a bitch-for-hire ...
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So the only way it *can* be extraordinary is if there's something after/outside of this existence. The cool thing about an extraordinary life in service to God is that it is independent of living and extraordinary worldly life. Look at Jesus or any of the early martyrs - not exactly worldly successes given that they were pretty much all tortured to death.
Alternatively there have been well off saints too, so if you mean "extraordinary" in terms of financial wealth or whatever, that's attainable. Like I said - service to God is independent of worldly life status.
I'm not intentionally proselytizing so much as presenting the way I see it. One of the things that made my life really feel extraordinary was having children. I mean it happens to millions of people every day... but it's extraordinary when it happens to you.
As to being a cog forever, well, you aren't God, so get used to it. You will always be a part of something greater than yourself and never the something that is greater than everything else.
Yes, and when you own a private business, this is called a "customer." Over half of businesses fail in the first 10 years; and going under fucks up one's life at least a little bit. You spin the failed business and assets up into something new, sure, but a corporate employee takes his skillset and finds a new job too. The corporate guy probably had a mandatory retirement account set up for him though, while the private business guy I'd bet most of the time doesn't have retirement set up. The retirement plan is often "live off the business I own."
> (or more commonly these days she) does, it fucks your whole life up and there's nothing you can do about it.
Not necessarily - you should still have a contract, and it's funny you mention "she," because where there's a girl boss there's inevitably an overinflated, overstaffed HR division that never saw a corporate affair they didn't want to meddle in.
That's corporate wagie though. If we're talking burger flipping or table hopping or whatever, that's a different story.
Obviously private business ownership and wage slavery aren't the same, but in terms of paying taxes to things you hate (subject of the OP), they're very similar. Among other things, wage slavery brings some security that entrepreneurship is missing, while entrepreneurship generally brings a higher success ceiling.
But until we overthrow the government, our taxes will go to things we hate, wagies and business owners alike.
The "stability" of wage work is illusory. If you're an employee, there's nothing stopping today being the day you come home without a job. It's only a matter of time.