# You'll Always Be a Wage Earner If You Can't Understand This

The "wage earner" referred to here doesn't simply mean someone who draws a salary. Rather, it means someone who positions themselves as a supporting character in the narrative of their own life.

I've said before that the "chosen livestock" are those who've lost agency—people forced to do things they don't want to do—not those working hard to pursue what they actually want. The latter, even if working 996 or 007 hours, aren't livestock. So wage earner, who are you working for? Some say "the boss"—wrong. Your boss and company are merely a means to achieve *your* goals. The protagonist here should be *you*. You have your career plan, things you want to learn and develop, a path to walk. This period, with this boss and this company, is simply a cooperative arrangement based on shared objectives.

When your company assigns you a task and sets a goal, complete it excellently—outperform everyone in your category, not just within your company but across the entire industry. If you encounter difficulties, seek help from your boss and supervisors—not to "beg for resources," not saying "to better achieve this company objective, I hope you'll help me this way or that." No. This is cooperation. Your primary objective is *your* objective. Your boss and superiors are your resources—find ways to deploy them to achieve *your* goals, not to "help the company achieve its goals"—that's merely incidental.

In your lifetime, there's only one main storyline: your career. Organizations are fictional narratives. Where is the organization? Where is the company? You call it a "company" composed of certain people? That's just a term that helps others quickly understand cooperative relationships, collaborative content, and mutual rights and obligations—it reduces communication costs, but doesn't mean it actually exists. Keep your eyes fixed on your own life script. Use your boss or supervisors whenever you can to advance your own narrative—they won't let you? Be clever about it. Use them the same way you use your brothers and close friends. Don't tell me you only know how to exploit people who've let their guard down, and the moment they become equally guarded you're ineffective—that would be pathetic.

Stop mocking yourself as livestock online with that crowd—words and definitions have power. The core issue is about your main storyline and perspective. Don't treat yourself as consumable material for others. Treat everyone else as resources and NPCs who help you achieve more life experiences and complete your journey. Whether it's your boss, supervisors, family, or friends—they should all be serving your lifetime, not you spending every waking hour creating GDP for others. I especially sympathize with those who can't figure this out. At home they sacrifice for parents, spouse, and children but don't get the feedback they want. But what if you didn't? Same at the company—for supervisors and bosses, doing things you don't like, where you have no growth, no sense of achievement, no pleasure—who are you? Why were you born and why are you living? Others can treat you as their NPC, their resource—fine. But from your perspective, you must and can only treat others as NPCs and resources.

There's no such thing as natural livestock or natural wage earners. You have only one true boss: yourself. In this lifetime you only work for yourself. Other people or platforms like companies are merely means to achieve your objectives. So from the very start, clarify: What's your goal? In what domain do you want to be industry number one? What work or data can you produce to prove your excellence? How will you recognize your progress toward your goals? What are your metrics? Even if your boss doesn't set these, you should—otherwise you can't confirm if you're actually moving forward.

So as the protagonist, what's your life's main storyline? What do you ultimately want to accomplish in this lifetime? Work backwards: give yourself concrete, quantifiable steps, targets, and metrics. Deploy everyone around you that you can utilize. Focus single-mindedly on achieving these goals, and eliminate all obstacles and people standing in your way.

That's a powerful life—it doesn't depend on whether you currently draw or sign paychecks. What matters is whether you're the protagonist. $BTC ‌#Gate13周年全球庆典