capitalism is addictive. i really only have familiarity with substance abuse. in terms of addictive acquisitive behaviors i can say i've noticed it comes in different grades. much like substance abuse. i mean, when i think about alcohol abuse, well as heroin, crack, or shopping, or screen addiction, or food, or porn and so on, it all feels similar. a need that takes extraordinarily from your life.
each one of those affect each of us differently and i feel like the same can be said of the various ways i noticed greed and avarice affect people. from being poor and desperate for it and a drive not to be, to having had it, and lost it and regained it over and over again.
thanks to a smug little bastard from texas, if i recall correctly, we have the embodiment of the old money self-superiority. that generational wealth that purchases yesses no matter the infraction. because people just know. big zeros come with these rude and entitled people who think you exist only to serve them. that kind of get away with the things that get other people sent away. to prison. the lad even provided a name for it, affluenza.
the thing about an addiction or thirst for wealth, or whatever the pull, is it presents differently in each individual. from addiction to recovery, the manifestations of behaviors are different all of us.
position, upbringing, race, self image, self-love quotient, culture, religion, where we live, these all play into it too. it's a dang crapshoot and because of it, life sure gets interesting. because it's as american way as baseball or religion. we accept in our society that we're in a rat race, competing at all costs. we lose sight of the humanity of others, especially those less fortunate, the less equipped to navigate in the world that prizes a cutthroat attitude. that calls for icing out others, that calls for us to lessen the value of other living people. this is encouraged. greed is good, as the depraved old model says.
i do not concur. i think greed is a cancer. i think to elevate yourself above everyone else to the point where it's harmful to others or even everybody else is the sign of a troubled mind. everybody else you say, but how? in what way?
here's how i see this commerce fueled way of life of ours. i see it as both embracing the worst sides of us as a collective glob of writhing humanity. it's only intensifying and infecting other areas of society, abstractly and acutely.
substance abuse, of consciousness alterers, it's much more easily accessible when you're a wealthy with money to burn. but oddly, not to share as much. unless it serves them. or buys someone to serve them and their "special interests." a polititian.
here's another for the ministry of unpopular remarks, but voila. i feel like wealth is unfair, unrealistic and often absolutely destructive. i believe when it is that way it should be stopped. it should have never gotten as powerful in society. it doesn't matter to me at all that many of the families that are the generational wealthy of the past are the still wealthy of today became so back before any government was founded. you might say that they financed the efforts, and they will never ever be enough repaid. in fact, they have enjoyed repeated centuries worth of repayment from people who came along later, and whether native or immigrant we have been repaying debts long since repaid.
my conclusion is, enough! i think their wealth long ago gave way to criminality (or was always criminal) and it is time for their penalties for crimes against fellow americans to be paid.
i saw someone else come out and say it on a social media platform, that the acquisition of wealth needs to be capped and i most heartily agree. they've been hogging all of the money others earn. like junkies, they will fight the intervention, but even a fancy hoarder can hurt others as well as themselves.
it's not about communism, to even try and lay it there is dishonest. in a family it's understood that a level of care and concern is required to preserve the health and welfare of each other. family is who we've got to count on. even when we don't have family, many of us seek it. we often need the support of each other, even strangers. either way, official family or voluntarily attained and even strangers can and will step up and lend a hand.
this is that intervention this country and the world needs. the competition and the covetousness that we've allowed to sprout and take root is not good for us. the wars and the stealing from each other, it's not leading to good if it's only to be enjoyed by a few individuals while harming a whole bunch of the rest, in my opinion. we all make the world go round and we can all prosper and thrive. even a spoiler impulse can be refocused and remade to provide some positive use.
it simply takes some reflection and the discovery of a new perspective. in some way i truly believe that this would open new horizons for ways of living for all of us to enjoy life in a different abundant waythan we have. i feel like the money is incidental and everything else in the world is what's of value. when we can see it.
that is the way.