“Your Erroneous Zones” by Wayne Dyer. I originally thought it was called “Your Erogenous Zones” when I saw it in the bookstore, but when I got home and realized it wasn’t about sex, it was a self-help book, I was disappointed. But then I started reading it and liking what I read. One part in particular, where he says “There’s no reason that you have to be a doctor. You can just lay on the beach all day long doing nothing at all, and that’s ok”, stuck with me. I had been pressured by my parent to get the highest grades, then get a high-paying job, all to help that one parent. Then I realized my life is my own, I’m not a slave to my parent, I don’t owe them a house just because I was born.

I have multiple relatives who claim to be disabled. They are perfectly capable of working, but they decided they were “disabled”, and they have lived off their parents and other relatives their entire lives. It infuriates me when I think of people who are really disabled, those who can’t walk, and worse, those who can’t see. In a communist system everyone tends to slack off and pretend their ability is way less than it really is.

The only real cure, as I see it, is for capitalism to develop AI and robots that do all the work, which will ultimately lead to communism, where no human does work, it’s the robots that do all the work and we just sit back and live good lives. Then the “from each” will be from robots, never from humans.