If you get the reference in the name of this blog then I respect you, and if you don't I still do respect you (albeit a little bit less).
Okay, lets start with the inspiration for this blogpost and then discuss (by which I mean witness me ramble on about) my issues with the world today. A little over a week ago I heard that President Trump had allotted $2 Trillion towards military aide in the USA and it triggered me. A number I almost convinced myself was fictional, the fact I had now just heard it shattered some glass in my head.
We're capitalists. Right, well done genius. You just figured out that the world is capitalist, next you'll be saying there's these vessels we use to commute called cars. Yes, I am aware (as shown by my self deprecation) that there is a system called capitalism that has existed for about five hundred years now. But, like with most things in life, I hadn't noticed how badly it affected me until I was broke...
So the real story starts about three weeks before Trump used a big number. It was when I made the mistake to check my online bank account and saw a big fat negative number on there (it was December and I am a student- so don't judge me). It was at this point I thought something ought to change. Not because I was broke but rather because I came to a realisation, that money made me happy.
Now years ago, this may have made some sense. After all, the money that you had in your pocket had some value because it was backed up by the gold reserve and so it meant something. But it doesn't anymore, in fact I'm not even holding a note- its just a number online... so why does this affect me?
Of course, I need money to live because everyone had given it such importance that it literally makes the world go round at this point. But now that I look at things as this broke and sceptic teenager, I wonder whether we've gone past a point of reason in this world.
I'm not a Marxist and nor do I think I'm as sophisticated as Him or Engel in my writing but as an Indian I'm not at all lacking in the skill of pointing out flaws. So here, I want to express why I think money has ruined us...
So the issue isn't money itself- we've used currency for most of humanity in some form or another. It's not even greed because we see this is natural for humans. Its the lack of limitations on this currency and the exploitation of others that has become so commonplace now that I feel it can only get worse.
Now, I'm not going to sermon you with the idealistic lifestyle where we buy what we need and thats it. No, because its pointless doing the same action again and expecting a different result. We know this to be true and we don't change our way, its marketing and its effective. Instead I would just like to keep this short for now and think about some simple ideas on a macro level.
We see atrocities in far away lands. We're told that the North Koreans have problems and they treat there people like crap. Concentration camps formed and people killed, its a place that needs reform or some intervention. We are repeatedly reminded that the Russians want to take over neighbouring nations and must be stopped. We are told about organisations that kill people in the middle east and how they are 'terrorists'.
But I simply want to ask one question. Why is it when the same news comes about from China, nothing is said? When there is a mass genocide of Muslims there nothing is said? When the Dalai Lama pleads for reform and to get his nation of Tibet back from the Chinese that nothing is even sanctioned?
I know why and I hope you do too. We oftentimes equate money with power. We use this to expect subservience from some nations and domination from others. We spend money to retain power and build an artificial representation of our generosity when that exact amount of money could feed all the homeless in the world for five years. Its this same principle that means certain nations get away with their behaviour and others don't.
Its the same way that in regular society we have rules for the elite and different rules for the rest. We live in a world where there had been so much money that we've reached a state where its not one of the things that spins the world around, its the only thing that does.
If you're reading this, you too are a part of the problem. You aren't a perpetrator, you're a victim. You've too been told to make money and suffer whilst doing so. You go to work for the sake of a salary and are underpaid because thats the only way your boss will make a profit. You are a commodity. And that is my problem. The world is too big now to think there is a pie and that there are limited pieces of it to go around. As Bitcoin showed, money is just numbers and a willingness to back it. So the fact that we still go out with this kill or be killed attitude is absurd because its senseless. Its pointless. Its a problem. And I don't have a solution for it...
I would suggest taking away value from money but until everyone follows suit, you cant really do that. And if you shout about it too loud then you might even get called a Communist. But maybe if you spend a day every now and then thinking about what you value- you might come to realise how far up money truly is and how far down you want it to be.
Okay, lets start with the inspiration for this blogpost and then discuss (by which I mean witness me ramble on about) my issues with the world today. A little over a week ago I heard that President Trump had allotted $2 Trillion towards military aide in the USA and it triggered me. A number I almost convinced myself was fictional, the fact I had now just heard it shattered some glass in my head.
We're capitalists. Right, well done genius. You just figured out that the world is capitalist, next you'll be saying there's these vessels we use to commute called cars. Yes, I am aware (as shown by my self deprecation) that there is a system called capitalism that has existed for about five hundred years now. But, like with most things in life, I hadn't noticed how badly it affected me until I was broke...
So the real story starts about three weeks before Trump used a big number. It was when I made the mistake to check my online bank account and saw a big fat negative number on there (it was December and I am a student- so don't judge me). It was at this point I thought something ought to change. Not because I was broke but rather because I came to a realisation, that money made me happy.
Now years ago, this may have made some sense. After all, the money that you had in your pocket had some value because it was backed up by the gold reserve and so it meant something. But it doesn't anymore, in fact I'm not even holding a note- its just a number online... so why does this affect me?
Of course, I need money to live because everyone had given it such importance that it literally makes the world go round at this point. But now that I look at things as this broke and sceptic teenager, I wonder whether we've gone past a point of reason in this world.
I'm not a Marxist and nor do I think I'm as sophisticated as Him or Engel in my writing but as an Indian I'm not at all lacking in the skill of pointing out flaws. So here, I want to express why I think money has ruined us...
So the issue isn't money itself- we've used currency for most of humanity in some form or another. It's not even greed because we see this is natural for humans. Its the lack of limitations on this currency and the exploitation of others that has become so commonplace now that I feel it can only get worse.
Now, I'm not going to sermon you with the idealistic lifestyle where we buy what we need and thats it. No, because its pointless doing the same action again and expecting a different result. We know this to be true and we don't change our way, its marketing and its effective. Instead I would just like to keep this short for now and think about some simple ideas on a macro level.
We see atrocities in far away lands. We're told that the North Koreans have problems and they treat there people like crap. Concentration camps formed and people killed, its a place that needs reform or some intervention. We are repeatedly reminded that the Russians want to take over neighbouring nations and must be stopped. We are told about organisations that kill people in the middle east and how they are 'terrorists'.
But I simply want to ask one question. Why is it when the same news comes about from China, nothing is said? When there is a mass genocide of Muslims there nothing is said? When the Dalai Lama pleads for reform and to get his nation of Tibet back from the Chinese that nothing is even sanctioned?
I know why and I hope you do too. We oftentimes equate money with power. We use this to expect subservience from some nations and domination from others. We spend money to retain power and build an artificial representation of our generosity when that exact amount of money could feed all the homeless in the world for five years. Its this same principle that means certain nations get away with their behaviour and others don't.
Its the same way that in regular society we have rules for the elite and different rules for the rest. We live in a world where there had been so much money that we've reached a state where its not one of the things that spins the world around, its the only thing that does.
If you're reading this, you too are a part of the problem. You aren't a perpetrator, you're a victim. You've too been told to make money and suffer whilst doing so. You go to work for the sake of a salary and are underpaid because thats the only way your boss will make a profit. You are a commodity. And that is my problem. The world is too big now to think there is a pie and that there are limited pieces of it to go around. As Bitcoin showed, money is just numbers and a willingness to back it. So the fact that we still go out with this kill or be killed attitude is absurd because its senseless. Its pointless. Its a problem. And I don't have a solution for it...
I would suggest taking away value from money but until everyone follows suit, you cant really do that. And if you shout about it too loud then you might even get called a Communist. But maybe if you spend a day every now and then thinking about what you value- you might come to realise how far up money truly is and how far down you want it to be.
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