benj, my friend, if the boss speeds up the production line, it either helps or hurts the enterprise. If it helps, and you own some share, you have incentive to requite your grievance. If it hurts the company, than it is you and the owner (or other the owners if you own a share) against the manager responsible for the damage. If it helps the company but you find no stake in that, then you need to resign and seek other employment.

a production line exists to make a profit, so that it can have started up in the first place, and so it can run again tomorrow.

It is nice when commercial life and spiritual life integrate. An integrated life is a worthy ambition for any and all. The preparing of oneself for such, and the application of oneself to such a goal, is the way of living that gives a person a feeling of accomplishment.

A feeling of accomplishment is central to dignity & self-esteem because it is yours, it has come to you from inside you, it is your creation, you created it, control it, & maintain it with your being.

What can be bestowed upon you from outside, great tho it may be for many reasons, will be an artifact of the fear, greed, or love of others –yours by whim or threat or luck –and it can never generate that same feeling.

I’m not going anywhere with that –except to say that any philosophy that doesn’t incorporate the spirit –substitutes say the material dialectic –can’t be a philosophy, can be only a political system –a weaponized political system.

“Rights” are rights to act (or not act), not rights to property. If you have a right to someone else’s property, you have a right to the person himself, and someone else has a right to what’s yours –and YOU.

Now, given the fact of ‘time’ (as you have introduced it) and the fact that a 20 year old will be a 60 year old, what except private property law –or a secret police operating per strongman’s whim –will let that 20 year old keep what he needs to make a family with, rather than giving it up to the 60 year old (see ‘social security’) who has the superior right to it by law –but morally, having already raised his family, will soon –very soon –be killing the nation by taking it?

Is this why the collective has always in the end needed truncheons and dungeons and capos and gulags, and alchohol, and early death, and low birth, and high suicide rates?

How does this reflect on our entitlement spending? Isn’t ‘time’ –thru Social Security and Medicare –going to collectivize us?

Isn’t the in-progress doubling (possibly –check Fan Fred books) of the national debt to rescue social-justice Depression-era Democratic party fortresses such as Fannie & Freddie, not to mention Sallie (which has acted to raise college costs at twice the CPI for decades now) already socialist enough? Can USA go any further without becoming a state which owns its people, rather than a people who own their state?

Social justice? Ever less upward mobility? Ever less true security? Ever fewer jobs? ever less hope for a better future? Ever less ability to finance a new family? This is social justice?

What happened to the truer democratic state we used to have? Beat to its knees by Progressives? “Progress” toward what?