The problem with money is that it's being siphoned off and hoarded by the super wealthy.
I'm not talking about millionaires or people that worked hard and made a "good life" for themselves; I'm talking about the kind of stat like how the 8 richest people in the world have more money than 50% of the people on the planet COMBINED.
Every time we make a purchase, the money trickles up and stays there.
Money is just energy...
If we lived in an equitable world, it would flow freely among the people as we produce goods and provide services for each other. We would have enough to invest in each other, and to continue to create and produce for ourselves and each other.
Instead, when we make a purchase, usually through a large corporation or benefiting a large corporation through their stranglehold on precious Earth materials (smartphones anyone?), the money we pay bypasses the workers doing the actual labor and straight into the pockets of the super-rich.
Or it goes to the war machine through our taxes, furthering exploitation of people and resources from faraway lands, and to the banks that finance all of the operations that happen below.
Let me repeat again...we live in a world in which the richest EIGHT people have more wealth than 50% of the population COMBINED. That's 3.8 Billion people.
Our power is in what we choose support. They have power over us through our dependence on them. That goes for pretty much any system of control...police, laws, our stomachs, etc
We all depend on them to some extent and we're all doing what we can with the resources we have. But I think it's seriously time to consider a large-scale boycott that targets most of the things we currently buy.
There are no easy answers, but there are obvious things we can cut out or substitute for (sigh) lesser evils. We need to figure out in-roads to supporting moral choices that are accessible to all people.
Humans are innovative as fuck, and I am blessed to know many of these people who are building the roads to a more equitable and just future for all. Nothing good comes easy, so let us fight for it and attain it!!
