Ekaterina Netchitailova

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Is it capitalism?

You get to build your perfect space for reading and writing. What’s it like?

WordPress assumes that all of us, bloggers, are extremely rich people.

Yesterday it asked us to reflect on ‘what’s you all time favourite automobile’, and today we are invited to write an essay about how we can build a perfect reading and writing space.

I am not poor, but I can’t afford my all time favourite Tesla, and I can’t afford to build my own writing space.

It’s on my kitchen table at this moment that serves as my main tool for writing, working, having my lunch, and making spells to attract abundance (kidding!).

Maybe one day it will work.

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Ekaterina Netchitailova

I am a Doctor of philosophy, a university lecturer, writer, and a lover of cats, fine wine, books, theatre, and human eccentricity. Despite my last name ‘Netchitailova’ which means ‘unreadable’ in Russian, my greatest passions in life are reading and writing.

2 responses to “Is it capitalism?”

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    lecox

    All societies I am aware of tend to create a “ruling class” that gets paid better for supposedly taking more responsibility for the smooth operation of that society. When they fail, there is trouble. But they guard their income to the last.

    The intelligentsia consisting of writers, professors and the like, tend to bridge the gap between thought and action in the ruling class. They are often employed to do little else than justify mistakes or bad policies. Those who do their jobs well are better paid, while those who continue to dissent are marginalized. And so a society easily becomes dysfunctional.

    The average person makes do as best they can, often suffering from the greed and mistakes of the ruling class. Most of us live a makeshift life, bringing as much skill and creativity as we can to provide ourselves with little comforts. I don’t think it’s capitalism; it’s just part of the human condition.

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      Ekaterina

      The division between rich and poor is unbelievable!
      And yes, we all try our best!

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I am a doctor of philosophy, a university lecturer, and a lover of cats, fine wine, dancing, theatre, and human eccentricity. I was born in the Soviet Union (Moscow). I am fluent in four languages, and have spent all my adult life studying (except from 18 to 19) working and living throughout Western Europe. Despite a surname-Netchitailova- that translates from Russian into English as “unreadable”, my greatest passions in life are reading and writing. My personal struggles have made me appreciate the manifestations of weirdness that exist everywhere.

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