What madness drives us to greed, can we not live a life of virtue and wholesomeness without some aspect of corruption interfering. This goes past the ideals of right and wrong, of ethics and ideas. Why do we seek to consume and some of us to consume for slightly less than others so we can talk about the “Deal” we received. The economy is moving to a global sphere and that is not a good thing for anyone in the world. There is no minimum wage world wide and even if there was there would be nations that ignore it anyhow. In this country today where we live thousands of people are screwed over by employers left destitute and worse every single day.
Society tells us that we have to get ahead, that we must own land, a car and so many other stupid things. Things we cannot make anymore, things we could not afford unless we have a man or woman living in another country working for a slave wage living in a hut. I am as guilty of that sort of consumerism as anyone else. I have made small stands, I do not shop at wallmart I try to reuse things, I fix cars as a hobby and sometimes as my job. I do my best as I can now in our society saturated in this to not be part of the problem. Even then I am, as to have what little I have I cannot but things I am sure of I cannot always know that people do not suffer so I can have cheap socks. No man or woman should suffer hardship working in conditions we made illegal in this nation fifty years ago so when you buy a T-shirt with whatever nonsense you decide yours must have upon it you can save yourself an additional five dollars.
We cannot even get things like that to stop here, even in the city that I live it happens, but we somehow think we can solve things elsewhere with legislation, mandates and “Rights”. We have to stop the process we have to stop demanding everything now but for a dollar less. We need to pay a fair price so a man or woman can make a fair wage.
But we are too trapped on the monster now. I once read that ruling the western Roman Empire near the end was like riding a mad bull. You were to busy trying to stay on to do anything else. So it is today with our leaders, and we the people, the bull. Are to busy worrying about where we will get the money to have our next vacation, our next TV to be thankful we do not live in a shack, making T-Shirts working everyday just to not starve as bad as the neighbours.
We are so far from the means of the production of anything now, people are more worried about the fate of a Dolphin or a Bear than a man or woman. Until the inequality of humanity ends, I think we as a race have a larger priority than worrying about the fate of an animal. Sentient life first, once we solve that the inequities to animals will be easy to fix as no man will need to kill them to survive as they do now.