EVERYTHING IS SOLD IN THE MARKET

EVERYTHING IS SOLD IN THE MARKET

8-JULY-ENG 18

RAJIV NAYAN AGRAWAL

ARA----------------------------Everything is sold in the market – vegetables, salt, books, houses, insurance, mobile recharge, treatment, even education. But in between all this, there is one thing being sold which many people do not consider as a thing – and that is human time.

Every person who goes to work in a field, office, factory or hospital in the morning – is actually selling a part of his life. He did not sell anything – he did not sell any grain, clothes, or goods – he sold the precious time of his life. And that has been given a clever word by this system – job or employment.

Now what happens is that a person comes every day at a fixed time, works, and then returns. At the end of the month he gets some money. But how is that money decided? Did he get money according to the amount of work he did? No. That money is decided in such a way that he gets as much as he needs to survive. But whatever he produced is much more than that.

For example, if a person works all day and makes a product worth Rs. 100, he may only get Rs. 30. Who benefits from the remaining Rs. 70? Obviously, the person who employed him.

Now you think – the person doing the work from which someone else is earning profit is being given only the things he needs. And this is the real game – turning a person into a commodity, not a human being.

He is told – we have given you work, while in reality he is giving his time, and his time is the treasure from which goods, services and profits are being produced.

This time, this energy, this labour power – is not a machine that can be plugged in and run. It is the living experience of a moving human being. His breaths, his tiredness, his beating body. But it is priced in the market – 8 hours for this much money, 10 hours for this much, night shift for a little more, etc.

Have you ever thought – how can someone's time be sold? Time never comes back to anyone again. Once it is gone, it is gone. Still people are forced to sell their time because without selling it, they cannot get food, cannot get treatment, cannot pay school fees.

So from this we came to know that the person who works hard has himself become a thing, a thing that is used every day, and whose tiredness no one cares about. And until this is understood, this system continues – where a person is alive, but his time is going into someone else's pocket.

In the end, the important thing to say is that in this system you are not selling your labor, you are selling yourself and you are not even able to know about it.