The Transitive Property of Debt

I wake up in comfortable bed, because my convenient alarm goes off.  Then I go shower in warm water and get dressed in fashionable clothes.  I’ll then check my facebook, text my friends, or maybe play some video games before class starts.  After class I’ll go eat a filling and tasty lunch.

This is just half of my day, but a Marxist might say that in that half day I have done nothing but distract myself from the injustices that I’m constantly being put under.  During all of this time I am paying dearly to receive my college experience and to have all my material possessions.  When I realize this I have to ask myself, “Why can’t I teach myself what I’m learning now from books and why do I need a degree to get a job?” 

College takes up so much time and money, but that is the direct result of supply and demand, the determining factors of the free market economy.  Different firms demand workers who are skilled and the worker force tries to supply that.  The firms and their leaders are the bourgeoisie, while people like myself who have nothing but the skills I have acquired and the sweat of my brow are the proletariat.  We get our degrees for the firms and their “private property” while sacrificing all that our families and we have to pay for the education.  An education that we then use to attain a salary to pay back those debts that the firms through the transitive property have put on us.  The pressure our society puts on us to become educated comes from the firms so that they can benefit from us while we suffer.

However, for now I can distract myself until I graduate and have to work endless hours to pay off the debt I have incurred from college and so much more.  That I can pay off with the salary that is only possibly compensating me fairly for the work that I give up to the firm.