Laboring in an Absolute Monarchy

Why do we begin here? I've come here first because it's the absolute monarchy from which employment, otherwise known as contractual labor, derives. From the dawn of time the one model of all of Nature has been the absolute monarchy. It shows up almost universally across the very cosmos in every aspect of its being. Albeit, employment is no different. All political systems vary from one another but in essence, based on culture, are nothing less than modified monarchies.

This is not going to be a political or religious lesson here. We are learning about employment. An indispensable place to start our lesson is in Nature herself.

Let us now consider the animal kingdom, and specifically, the sub-kingdom of the insects - bees, wasps, hornets, ants, etc. We all know these insects all have what we know as a system of monarchy programmed by the Maker in them. In many ways we can correlate a bee or ant colony to the human race. We've all hear the terms worker antorworker bee. Many times people look at employees and refer such terminology to them. Important at their positions in life are, they are also looked at as being less important. Unfortunately it is a known fact that labor is cheap and it seems the more mundane the labor is, the more physically demanding it is and the less value is placed on it. Unfortunately too, along with the value placed on the labor itself is the value placed on the individuals doing the labor.

The worker ants in a colony amount to very little individually but collectively, they possess tremendous force that can kill an elephant, considering the Siafu ant, better known as the army ant. These ants have been known to desolate human villages and have indeed killed large animals and humans in their quest for survival.

In a developed nation, the massive workforce is what makes the wheels turn and should this force stop working, the nation would certainly collapse very quickly! Entrepreneurs have the minds and ability to create the companies in which employees work, but the vast majority of companies out there could not exist without the workers.

The one important element that exists in all of these systems is thehierarchy.Perhaps it it far more accurate to refer to all systems as a hierarchy rather than a monarchy, which is a specific political system. It goes without saying that employment exists in this array. In employment, as is generally true with all other kinds of labor systems, the laborer is the lowest element in the hierarchy. Even amongst the laborers, a hierarchy usually exists, even if it is one that has been formed by the laborers themselves.

What's the point of all this? In most hierarchies, the laborer accounts for the vast majority of the entire population in the social infrastructure in which they live. On the other hand, the leadership or management accounts for a corresponding tiny part of the infrastructure. In consumer-based societies, these facts are generally taken for granted and is why I thought it prudent to include it in this study.

In many infrastructures, the quality of life in that of the masses are generally far inferior to the that of the tiny elite that run things. Even in American society, the poor and middle class, though considered wealthy by third world standards, are little more than modern technological peasantry. Whilst the quality of life for the masses in the United States is very good, it is not far removed from just getting by.

The major point here is that you become aware of these facts and know where you are in this picture before you can really do anything about it in your life. It doesn't take rocket science to see these things but it is an important topic most people take for granted. That conformity is the one thing you may be doing that can destroy possibilities of success, contemplation on where you are in life can the the thing you don't do that can have adverse results and block you from the life you deserve.

These things being said, let's now take a look at employment. Where did employment come from? How did it become the number one form of leverage companies use to get things done?