Hard Work?

Tibetan (卐) depiction of
Mahakala (महाकाल):
The Protector of the Dharma (धर्म)

Hard Work?
Sunday – June 14, 2026

In our times there is a lot of talk about hard work, as if hard work in and of itself will produce great results. Of course, the reality is that hard work in and of itself is quite worthless, even in the most corporeal sense imaginable, because what modern people demand and expect is always great comfort, and if a man is a hard worker yet his work fails to produce great comfort, he should expect a low wage. To put it in more technical terms: if you are working hard but the work you are doing is in low demand and there is a lot of supply of the kind of work that you are doing, then you should expect a low wage, regardless of the amount of work, hard or not, that you put in, read "What is Capitalism?". So, essentially the whole concept of working hard is really nothing but a big fat lie, and I would submit to you that the objective of this "big fat lie" is to keep you in submission, to keep you obedient and to make sure that you do not oppose the revolution. Another way of thinking about working hard is this: often there is a future narrative attached to the idea of working hard, read "The American Dream" for instance, and this narrative is presented as a promise, a kind of promised land, that will be kept as long as you just remain in the system. Of course, the promise will not be kept, nor was it ever kept, because they, the revolutionary elite, keep moving the goal post: if at first you had to do A and B to arrive in the promised land, today you have to do B, C, and A to even arrive a D and in that specific order as well, and they will crack down on you the minute you show any tendencies of disobedience, read "Should You Break Rules?". See, the revolutionary elite will not crack down on the people in their own ranks, for those people, those men, are above the law, but the masses, the supposedly "average" people, must be controlled, and this is why "rule of law" is much more about control than anything else, and certainty "rule of law" has very little to nothing to do with justice, actual justice, for if justice had been the real goal in mind, the entire structure of society would be ordered in a manner much closer to the ancient civilizations, read "Hyperborea".

    So, when you are working hard without results, here I am referring to "results" in a completely material sense, you are wasting energy and you are wasting time, and when you are wasting time you are also wasting your future, and more to the point, when you are working hard and wasting energy and time, you will more quickly waste your body and likely you will fade away much sooner. Really, there is of course a lot of talk about health and leading a healthy life these days, but not that many so-called "experts" ever seem to consider the effects of hard work on health, because those same experts will then turn around and point towards all sorts of health issues without actually framing those health issues correctly: if people are becoming fat and addicted, read "Further Notes on Addiction", then there has to be at least one cause of this... Well, what could be the cause of all of these problems? To a rather substantial extent it would be expected that hard work and all the contingencies connected with hard work should play a role in this, read "Stress!", but most "experts" will never point to hard work and obedience to the system as the real culprit; instead these same experts will go on to point to all sorts of small and, again, contingent details that all converge towards the same problem – hard work. There are surely many men out there conducting back breaking labor, and at the end of the day this hard work that has destroyed their bodies will really amount to nothing more than being barely able to stay above the surface, but such are the rules of our material existence. When the industrial age came through it had to destroy everything in its wake, including normal and human relations, and as a result of this, dysfunction has become the new "normal". Of course, what passes as "normal", the term "normal" really being a counterfeit term (and a neologism) for ordinary, is entirely connected to the number involved; the more people involved the more something, in this case hard work, is considered normal, but really I should add that in the case of truly hard work number may actually be less relevant in the sense that most people, or rather a great number of people (perhaps less than a plurality), are engaging in hard work, but instead where number is relevant in this regard is the sentimental value of hard work, for most people seem to value hard work to a very great extent, often, of course, without thinking past the sentimental value of it, for the fact is that most people are actually not engaging in hard work, but they still value hard work, particularly in other people, and to that end they also tend to vastly overestimate their own actual work, which is funny but also connected with the rude and offensive character of most modern men, read "Directing Films".

    What you want to actually do on the other hand, if you only concern yourself with the material and the corporeal, is to work smart, and that term "work smart" may also seem like a cliché, but the fact is that there is a lot of truth to this: yes if you have to arrange your work after the principles of the "free market", the best you can do is to engage in work in a field where the demand is high, preferably higher than the supply, for this is really the only principle, a pseudo-principle though it is, that can ensure that you get a higher output from your work than the input your input. Now, there are some ways you can go about ensuring a higher demand than the actual supply, and in our modern civilization the most prudent/effective way of doing this is simply to educate yourself, read "The Case For Education", formally, because effectively education is an artificial barrier imposed on the market that will create an artificially lower supply than what would exist otherwise; understand that education in this context is different from true qualification, read more about that here. Now, there is also the way of sabotage, read "How to Pull Off a 'Black Bag' Operation", which would entail sabotaging your competition, because the entirety of the modern world is predicated upon the pseudo-principle of efficiency, and if you can seem more efficient, true or not, then you are more likely to be awarded. Then there is also, of course, the way of simply switching markets and following the trade winds; this pseudo-principle is of course similar to the, in this case, overriding pseudo-principle of comparative advantage, read "The Problem of Borders". Overall, switching to a secondary or even a tertiary market may or may not be in keeping with principles of sound finance, but it will be more likely to be helpful than simply sticking around in the same market when conditions on that market continue to be unfavorable. At the end of the day, this American (in particular) idea amounts to absolute nonsense and if you seek to navigate the modern world effectively you must know this.

    I will add, for reasons of protecting myself, that I am by no means providing financial advice; this is simply generalized advice that applies to living in the world, and should not be taken as specific financial advice, especially not in regard to investments. I also welcome you to read more posts under this "Advice" label.

Reginald Drax (AKA, M. C. Dutt) – June 14, 2026.