Our current system is all fucked up.

This wouldn't be the popular opinion of our government but it's a different story on the ground floor.

I live in a reasonably fair country where it is still possible to get a solid education and to support a good lifestyle from your hard work.

It is a hard thing to achieve but its possible. We have a good public education system and a reasonable if inefficient public health system. It's not the worst in the world.

Unfortunately other people are not entitled to such luxuries in other countries.

We have a slight wealth gap between medium earning people in this country. It would be hard to tell the difference between the ones who have a ten thousand in the bank to the ones who have a million.

That's the way it should be.

We are all entitled to a good standard of living if we are willing to work for it.

The main problems lie at the opposite ends of the scale. Gig business and social welfare. This is where you can see true imbalance and a different attitude. Both of these groups have one thing in common. Neither want to pay their fair share. ( This is the majority and not in all cases.)

The very rich spend lots of money figuring out how to save the rest of their money from taxes and expenses. The poor want everything handed to them and expect not to give anything in return.

Unfortunately the system is set up in such a way as to make this all very possible and in most cases profitable for these outlying groups.

The rich get richer as the rules are in their favor. Most of these rules are made by their own group of people and so it is hard to see them changing in a way that would negatively affect their own lives. And it would have to if we wanted to see equality of wealth and community.

Instead they try to compensate by giving away state assets to the poor and pretend that they care. If they really cared then they would make the hard choices and stop giving people everything for free.

We find ourselves in the sad position where people that are working 40 hours a week and killing themselves trying to earn a living are far worse off than those who sit at home doing nothing with their hands out.

Meanwhile the rich sit in their ivory towers and consolidate their wealth to get even richer as the poor middle class fight over scraps and try not to starve.

Their are enough resources in this country, that everybody could survive comfortable but the hard decisions would need to be made by the government and they would piss almost every body off.

• Ensure that everybody is paying their full amount of tax.
• No deals for rich individuals or companies.
• Ensure that funds are accounted for at government level.
• Bring state wages/ pensions in line with the private sector.
• Amalgamate all social departments and have one very basic payment for those who refuse to work.
• Bring in supplementary wages for those on welfare that require them to work on behalf of the community to get payed.
• Lower taxes on the lowest earners and make it profitable to keep a full time job.

It is far too easy to keep the status quo as it is the least hassle for the politicians. To make positive changes would require self sacrifice and causing friction. Nobody can make them do it so until their hand is forced i don't think that we will ever see that day.

Is Hive any better?

A the moment not by much. We are a small community but growing slowly and have a similar economy. Our creator economy. A place where the rich get richer and the smallest struggle along.

The difference here is that every user has the chance to grow their account without a centralized barrier to progress. In real life we have governments and commitments to hold us back or stop us going in certain directions. On hive we make our own choices.

The drawback is that it is still very hard to crack that upper class of users. A lot of the biggest accounts have auto-votes and stick with the people that they know. It's not wrong but it is not the most helpful practice to grow our eco-system. A lot of these accounts getting the big votes have put in a lot of time and effort to get there and deserve to be rewarded for that work.

What would be even better however is to spread the wealth a bit more. To fully decentralize we need to see as many people as possible holding more hive. Less whales and more minnows. Millions of them. If that is ever going to happen then we need to support their early stages of growth and encourage them to grow.

Even small steps like looking at new posts and spreading the votes around or commenting on new users work. It's very easy to stay in our own circle and I'm guilty of it myself but i will try harder.

This is my latest voting chart and spread of votes. There is a good mix for multiple authors and a few for my usual favorites.

We have the chance to do a little bit better with this eco-system and that will start by taking small steps.

Just look outside of our usual circle and see what else is out there to start. If we can keep people active and buying into the system we will all be better of fin the long run as a community and as individuals.

Long term thinking is the key.