When any government, or employer,
wants to sell me the latest false self esteem
in the name of their material self interest,
then let them - in a society based on growth
through debt, that is their bounden duty.
My duty to myself is to define my self interest
in terms of living well, within my means,
even when that means having less than others
and less to offer a self-interested employer.
I have no interest in upward mobility,
which why I resist the lure of the jobs
where employers say 'working for me
is good for you' to would be employees,
whilst saying nothing about how it is best them.
I can't mind how self interest divides people
into relative 'haves' and 'have nots', as long
as I do not esteem myself by such inequality.
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