You can be conscious and work for someone else. Working to accomplish a goal you didn't come up with is not good or bad.
Everybody has to provide value to survive. Some people provide value towards a goal that somebody else is leading them towards. Some people provide value on their own. The first one is called a job, the second one, self-employment.
There's no problem with people working together towards a common goal, even if one person is the leader and others are followers, which is sort of what a job is (idealistically)
I think that what steve was writing against was the type of job and work environment. Working for someone else is not the issue, the type of job, work, environment etc. that you are in is the issue.
This is a very individualistic thing. One person might thrive in a job/environment that others hate. No problem with that.
The problem is when you are in a job and it has pulled you out of alignment with truth love and power.
Since most organizations are not in line with these three values to begin with, and since most people are not in line with these three values, it becomes hard to provide value in a way that is in line with those three. (in addition to leading to all sorts of other job-problems)
When you're self employed, it is much easier to align your value delivery system with those three values, if you choose to. In a job, somebody else chooses.
Let's say steve needed help providing value. If we went to work for steve, as employees, we would probably have a much more conscious job than working for the local mcdonalds. Why? cause steve's organization is in line with those values.
Working for someone else isn't the issue. It's being out of alignment that's the issue. This just happens much more frequently in a job than in a self-employed situation.
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