Creativity and productivity

The American capitalist system requires productivity to work. Productivity assures that the middle and lower classes gain the perception of financial stability while the rich pile up wealth. In a weak economy, the productivity mantra clamps down on the workers with more hours, fewer benefits and less job security. Workers become cogs and automatons simply for the privilege of having a decent job. This is often the consequence even of a college education that is seen as a career path.

Creativity engenders an entirely different set of circumstances. For the creative person, work is its own reward. Creativity assures that the work has value. It makes for rewards from within and not from without. The creative person sees college as an adventure toward full humanness and finds a way to sustain a meaningful work and personal life.

The danger is to not see value in work and to not work hard to work satisfying, to not wake up one day to be a cog.