If you’ll bomb at one, then which?
It’s fascinating to look back at Karl Marx’s anarchist enemy Michael Bakunin.
He saw worker violence against the state as a means of progress.
But here’s the twist—Bakunin wasn’t a fan of the free market either.
He believed in a different path:
– no central planning by state bureaucrats and
– no guidance by the invisible hand of the market
Resource allocation would happen by…”creative destruction”. 🤓
But the emphasis was on the word destruction.
The creative part would take nothing short of magic. 😆
That’s because he never gave an explanation how the division of labor in an economy could thrive without traditional frameworks.
But that’s anarchy for you.
Chaos is order. 🤢
No, thank you.
This is an example why the good old days weren’t that good.
Anarchists were central at radicalizing the workers parties of the 19th and early 20th-Centuries.
Either you joined, or they blew you up. 💣
They were simply angry people with not much else but frustration to offer.
👉 Dejected gig economy workers remind me of these old-time workers waiting for some neo-anarchist to radicalize them.
What today’s laborers fail to see, and I hope you’re not one of them, is that they’re the most powerful driving force behind innovation.
💥 Today’s freelancers are the bridges across the gaps of standardized problems needing creative and custom-made solutions.
They embody the division of labor in our modern knowledge economy.
With your skills, expertise, and creativity as building blocks of tomorrow’s productivity, why should you be worried? 🛠️
You just need to stop thinking like a cog in a wheel.
In a world that’s rapidly evolving, don’t you think you’ll be needed?
Why, then, be discouraged?
If you listen to the fears of naysayers, you’ll waste your time in anxiety.
💎 “Which of you by worrying can add one foot to your height?”
Instead, embrace your pivotal role as provider of tomorrow’s productivity. And learn new ways from the least likely sources.
But ask yourself for whom will you be productive?
You need to focus the honing of your skills, the nurturing of your talents, on adapting yourself to the changing landscape of ONE kind of client needing to follow in your footsteps. 💪
If you’re ahead of that client, all you need to do is lead.
And that brightens everyone’s future! 🌞
But you need to stop listening to the Bakunins out there.
Find the desperate person stuck a few steps behind you, who wants to get to where you’ve already been, and show them how to get there.
Don’t let anarchy ruin your freelancing chances.
Be a lighthouse, not a bomb. 🕯