Social Exploitation

Equal Society?

We live in a Western-modern paradigm that places great importance on a form of individuality that exploits fellow humans and nature for its own gain.  The current culture of the UK and USA encourages exploitation for personal gain, mistrust, spying on each other and every type of parasitic behaviour imaginable. 

The cause?  Money.

There will always be people who will simply choose to exploit others or allow evil to fester out of simple indifference.  It's not inherently evil.  It is people coveting money over the betterment of their fellow man that is wrong, but no matter what system we seek to set up, there will always be greed and those looking to get one over on others.  However, one system breeds such behaviours more than any other.

Capitalism is an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.  It is an exploitative system in which the bourgeoisie exploit the proletariat.  This eventually leads to crime, which is the result of poverty which is generated by the capitalist system and the fuelling of avarice and monetary gain.  People steal because they are materially deprived and this deprivation stems from the poverty wages paid by the ruling class.  Even the minimum wage does not protect against wage slavery.  The majority of the population are exploited by the government and owners of big businesses, hence exploitation from capitalism leads to the creation of laws which appear to benefit the proletariat, but truly benefit the ruling class.  This is due to the lack of consensus between the upper and lower classes. 

The glitter of consumerism has produced powerful images that have served to silence and to banish those who are forced to live in a different reality in such a class-divided society.  Those that stand up and refuse to accept or comply with the system get smashed down time and again, which makes trying feel so futile that most don't, thus making positive change even harder.  Individually it is painful to confront reality, but collectively change is possible. 

Social norms need to change and that's fine, it is expected.  

However, the purpose of changing values in a civilised society ought to be to create a world in which everyone, not just the elite 1%, feels happier, more comfortable and at ease, not one in which in order to correct the injustices of the capitalist state a new group or ideology is created and singled out, deemed fair game for bullying and vindictive justice.

Whether social change and the reduction of exploitative practices takes place in the form of revolution or reformation, the possibility of such change should be embraced and seen as something positive.  We do not have to move backwards to become more forward thinking.  We merely need to reconsider our priorities.  It is not the money that makes people happy but the security and pleasure it provides.  Different systems produce different people.  This is why we need to continually question and challenge the way we’ve been told society works.