£ IS A SCAM

The text on this drawing reads: "£ (money) is a scam. You can spend your whole life to earn it, but can't spend it to earn your whole life back."

After a ten hour shift at work, I came home and couldn't feel better about it. I spent time with friends and loved ones, updated myself on global news, educated myself with new information, made yet another attempt at cooking pasta (yes, I am still terrible at it) and created the drawing above.

Everyday, we spend more time in an environment that is of no interest to us and around people we care for less than those we leave at home and say we are doing it all for. Why? Money. It provides us with all that we need to progress or "succeed" as it is defined in this day and age, or to ensure that we can maintain the lifestyle we and our loved ones already live.
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But to me, this was sort of a contradiction as I felt as if I am missing out on the people and life I say I am doing it for. I don't want money so I can simply pay my rent and bills and purchase food and necessities. I personally, want it for the sake of security and survival before anything else, but security and survival come in many different ways. To purchase it through money is just the most easiest or laziest option. It  requires minimum amount of mental and physical energy consumption, hardly any moral responsibility and no actual intelligence or wisdom apart from knowledge on the single field you are employed in. So the more you know or specialize in acting for example, the less you will have to know or care about everything else from cooking to cleaning. Let's face it if you had as much money as Bill Gates, you are much less likely to feel the need to learn how to cook and clean because these things are so readily available with something you have so much of, and so is automatically taken for granted at a subconscious level. But at this point we must ask ourselves, what is more important? knowledge on how to act or on how to cook and clean in order to sustain our security and survival? Will knowing how to act keep you and your loved one's fed and prevent death from disease and illness? Of course not. But If we could find an alternative to the easy option and the one we have grown so accustomed to then maybe we can spend more of our limited lives around the people we love and doing the things that interest us.


After watching Peter Joseph's documentary, Zeitgeist: moving forward, I started to see clearer how this security and survival of our entire species is possible without the monetary system that I have grown to believe was the only and correct one

I am one of the many who are slowly waking up to the fact that the money game is simply a system based on dependency. As long as we depend on it, it will run our lives and continue to profit someone else who has more to sell than we do, all whilst we miss out on the majority of our lives to make this possible. Hours of our lives that we can never buy back regardless of how much money you are willing to spend.

These were the thoughts that were on my mind whilst creating this drawing. Feel free to give me feedback as to what you see when you look at it.