In nearly every system, individuals often find ways to exploit or manipulate the rules; it’s part of human nature. When money is involved, this becomes even more dangerous, as it can allow someone to amass significant wealth in a small factor bill instead of the goods. This dynamic is so deeply embedded in modern society that reversing it seems impossible. Those who possess great wealth have the choice to either share it or hoard it. In many ways, when it comes to money, we seem to have regressed rather than progressed. The Indigenous peoples of the Americas once lived with a freedom and simplicity that many today could never imagine. This is why some argue that the ideal future citizen should own nothing and live off a minimal amount of land, embracing a simpler, more sustainable way of life.
Exploitative individuals may well be a part of human nature, but cooperating with other humans to build communities that are greater than the sum of its parts is human nature too.
I don’t believe that it’s possible to necessarily reverse the toxic dynamic you describe, but I do believe that it is possible to move forward in a way that is more productive for wellness. Maybe I just believe this because it’s what I need to believe in order to not go mad and top myself, but I’ll take the free hope.
And when the primates with the money and the power exploit their ‘lessers’ so much that we start dying from it, it’s perfectly natural and normal to rise up and rip them into little bits and leave their dismembered corpses out for the buzzards.
In nearly every system, individuals often find ways to exploit or manipulate the rules; it’s part of human nature. When money is involved, this becomes even more dangerous, as it can allow someone to amass significant wealth in a small factor bill instead of the goods. This dynamic is so deeply embedded in modern society that reversing it seems impossible. Those who possess great wealth have the choice to either share it or hoard it. In many ways, when it comes to money, we seem to have regressed rather than progressed. The Indigenous peoples of the Americas once lived with a freedom and simplicity that many today could never imagine. This is why some argue that the ideal future citizen should own nothing and live off a minimal amount of land, embracing a simpler, more sustainable way of life.
Exploitative individuals may well be a part of human nature, but cooperating with other humans to build communities that are greater than the sum of its parts is human nature too.
I don’t believe that it’s possible to necessarily reverse the toxic dynamic you describe, but I do believe that it is possible to move forward in a way that is more productive for wellness. Maybe I just believe this because it’s what I need to believe in order to not go mad and top myself, but I’ll take the free hope.
And when the primates with the money and the power exploit their ‘lessers’ so much that we start dying from it, it’s perfectly natural and normal to rise up and rip them into little bits and leave their dismembered corpses out for the buzzards.