We need to confront a hard truth: unemployment is not just an economic issue—it is a ritual consequence. That means it isn’t random or coincidental. It’s the result of repeated choices, beliefs, and behaviors that start to shape the perception of reality—truth—itself.
Before we even talk about jobs, we must talk about relationships.
Unemployment did not come first. Exploitation came first. The moment we allowed workers to be used without dignity, without reciprocity, we opened the door. The moment we stopped questioning why some labor is celebrated, and some is invisible, the system began to fracture. Unemployment is what follows. It is the symptom, not the source.
This country will not heal until we stop treating unemployment as a statistic and start seeing it for what it truly is: the cost of what we believe, and the proof of how we treat each other.
We’ve been taught to believe in scarcity, in competition, in personal achievement above all else. These beliefs didn’t fall from the sky. They were introduced—foreign to our roots yet absorbed into our culture. And because many of us lack emotionally coherent relationships—with family, community, or self—we become vulnerable. We treat myths like facts. We call abandonment “independence.” We call silence “strength.” We stop asking questions.
Here is one I’m asking now:
How is it possible that an entire family name is poor?
It’s not. I argue it’s impossible. In every extended family—uncle, cousin, grandparent—someone has access to resources. Someone holds financial power. So then why are people homeless? Why are people depressed? Why do so many feel alone?
Because families have abandoned their duty to their own. Not just emotionally, but economically. Not because they don’t care, but because they’ve been convinced that care must be conditional. We’ve built walls between ourselves in the name of “individual achievement,” “independence,” and “self-determination”—all ideas that feel noble but often serve as cover for fear and detachment.
Support systems have turned into pressure systems. Unemployed people carry shame not because they lack money—but because their own families project that shame onto them.
This isn’t sustainable. It’s not African. And it’s not sacred.
In The Golden Egg: A Worker’s Resolve, I wrote that currency is more than money—it’s memory. It tracks who we value, who we recognize, and who we are willing to protect. When money doesn’t move through kinship, it stops being sacred. It becomes extraction. In You Know Not God, I expanded on this—showing that reality only exists through relationship. Which means healing the economy starts with healing how we relate.
So, I say this to us:
We have manifested poverty. We have manifested unemployment. Not because we are weak or unintelligent, but because we have absorbed beliefs that do not belong to us. And we have repeated them until they became normal.
Now it’s time to unlearn. To reconnect. To remember what a family name truly means. And to treat relationship—not ideology—as the foundation for building a just economy.
We were not born to compete. We were born to complete.
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