Goodbye, Businessing

I feel that businessing suffocates the other stages of our lives.

Which stages? The stages where we are still children and the stages where we are gradually expelled from the job market.

What a strange argument is this?

This argument aims to give value to stages of life that we may be culturally conditioned to undervalue.

My thesis is that deep life begins from the very beginning, and not just gradually as we settle into the job market.

But companies want the working core of our lives.

Companies are not people. They are abstractions that aim for good work, usually generating profit when they work well.

Aiming for good work requires recruiting the best professionals for themselves. As much as possible.

For some centuries, we have needed to work to keep "everything" more or less functioning.

These centuries of focus on work condition us to prepare children for work and, after work, to prepare the elderly for expulsion from the job market.

Daycare centers and nursing homes, we could summarize in two well-known services.

This thesis may gain relevance if it is true that automation, now turbocharged by artificial intelligence, can expel humans from the focus on work.

Robots and AIs could work more - more and more - for us.

In the practice of everyday life, this thesis asks:

How many hours of a child's life do nannies need to replace parents who are working?

Including the nannies themselves, who may need to leave their children with others for a few hours as well.

It is at points like this that I feel the culture of businessing undervalues the other phases of life.

Children are focused on studying. Preparing. For what? For work, mainly.

The elderly, beautiful sources of the deepest experience, are lonely because the rest of the world is working - or in daycare.

Is the deep joy of a baby, or a child at various ages, less because they can't work yet?

Not at all. I would say it is a unique phase, of infinite joy.

But we treat them as if they were inferior people, in the sense that they cannot work yet.

One day, this small tyranny of work may no longer exist, sucking the previous and subsequent phases of life into its business whirlpool.

Then, little humans and big humans, of all phases, will have their laughter, their tears, their discovery, their realization, their word, highly valued, without being pushed into or out of a whirlpool of CNPJs.

Shall we observe?.