I wrote this article below on another site where I was anonymous so I let my emotions write it. Economists could pick it apart, but the problem with their harsh 'rational reason' is that you also end up with their version of the meritocracy which they then use to justify slave labour in the third world. They also use the meritocracy as propaganda to get people to accept poverty in their own countries by blaming the poor for not being hard working or entrepreneurial enough. Here's the article I wrote:
Anonymous Writes
Something has got to be done about the über rich, no one
should be allowed to become a billionaire or anywhere near it. People with this
much money can control governments and harm our society. If someone comes in my
house and attacks me I will expect the police to do something about it. If the
mega rich wreck our country to make themselves fortunes then the law should act in our interest.
Now the mega rich have every right to do as to wish with
their money, and they can offshore their companies to china if they desire because
we live in a free country. But we, the public, should also be allowed to have a
real democracy and be able to put reasonable tariffs on cheap goods brought in
from china and elsewhere which destroys British jobs.
Some will argue that the cost of consumer goods, like
electronics, will go up. But should we be buying goods made by slaves and
desperate children in third world countries? Increasing automation will bring
prices down.
The über rich are the master devil and they will say that by
putting stiff tariffs on imported products poor people in the rest of the world
will suffer. But if they are really concerned about the poor then why not have
a wealth tax at 90% on people that earn £millions per year to help the poor in
the rest of world and in our own country.
The 'meritocracy' is right wing propaganda and economists
are the agents that are used to spread this neo-fascism. Economists preach
about benefits of the meritocracy and say that if people work hard enough they
can get themselves out of poverty. But the very poor who work on the
plantations in many third world countries work all the hours that God sends but
they still don’t have any money to be able to get anything going.
The so called ‘meritocracy’ is BS; but like all propaganda
there is some truth to it. If you are poor you are told to work very hard and
if you’re lucky you can start your own business too. And then you have the
right to exploit other people below you because you are told that you are
providing them with jobs and that they would starve and be homeless unless you
gave them work. But the system allows them no other way to look after
themselves as they can't go back to the countryside and grow their own food
because other people, mainly the rich, have taken all the land. In desperation they
are forced to work in conditions that anyone else would find depressing, and
many of them are on antidepressant drugs.
The ruling class have used propaganda to make people believe
that the poor are poor because they don't work hard enough. But unemployment is
engineered into our economy on purpose by our rulers to keep wages at rock
bottom and so it doesn't matter how hard we all try, someone has to fall to the
bottom. No wonder so many give up?
The libertarians and ordinary conservatives are fools who
allow themselves to be hoodwinked by the ruling class. Perhaps they don't care
or they really do like to über rich to have it all because their philosophy is
built around the 'meritocracy', which is the propaganda that the Over Class
have spent £millions on to get us to keep working harder and then to blame
ourselves when we fail, rather than blame the system which is rigged by them and
stacked against ordinary people.
Schoolchildren are constantly graded to make them feel that
they are not good enough so they will blame themselves when they aren't
successful after leaving school. All through life they taught to accept their
lot and not complain. They are told that the rich are rich because they are
clever and they are poor because they are not. This keeps the masses in their
place and very subservient. Some will even gladly go to war and die for the ruling
class who they idolise and honour them.
I can remember being at work and siting around a table with
management and we were discussing how we could improve the company. I saw
everyone offering ideas hoping that their ideas were better than everyone
else’s. But it felt to me that we were all really just pretending, and that we
were all completely fucking bored out of our wits with the place, and with the
utter monotony of it day in day out. And
I wondered if everyone else was like me and would sooner be anywhere else
rather than here. I would look out of the window and see the beautiful blue sky
and yearn for freedom. In my imagination I saw green fields and the seaside.
I thought I would never see the end of that utter monotonous
boredom but I had a nervous breakdown which was the best thing that ever
happened to me. I then became too ill to ever work again so I looked into to pension
and saw that there was enough to retire?
Now although l am now far less well off than I used to be I get to
spend much of my time working on my
hobbies and practicing mindfulness for therapy, something I never had time for
in the past.
I’m one of the lucky ones because although the capitalist system sucked everything out
of me to make the über rich their expected massive profits, I was l left with
little something in my pension. But the old system that was hard fought for by
working class people in the past is now being slowly dismantled because of the ‘meritocracy’
– i.e., right wing propaganda – which being put in its place instead. This is
to screw the public even more while getting them to accept even more crap.
11 comments:
Kevin that meritocracy stuff comes straight out of Darwin...
"survival of the fittest"...
It's just a setup to get us to not think about what's really going on.....it's Machievellian
Or "survival of the most ruthless and powerful," at least, until cooperation is required to survive. But who needs cooperation when you have wage slavery?
Things will have to get a lot worse before they get better. Some crisis, collapse, or war will have to come along. It probably won't happen in my lifetime.
If you are poor you are told to work very hard and if you’re lucky you can start your own business too. And then you have the right to exploit other people below you because you are told that you are providing them with jobs and that they would starve and be homeless unless you gave them work. But the system allows them no other way to look after themselves as they can't go back to the countryside and grow their own food because other people, mainly the rich, have taken all the land. anonomous [bold added]
‘The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are but aliens and sojourners with Me. Thus for every piece of your property, you are to provide for the redemption of the land.
‘If a fellow countryman of yours becomes so poor he has to sell part of his property, then his nearest kinsman is to come and buy back what his relative has sold. Or in case a man has no kinsman, but so recovers his means as to find sufficient for its redemption, then he shall calculate the years since its sale and refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and so return to his property. But if he has not found sufficient means to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hands of its purchaser until the year of jubilee; but at the jubilee it shall revert, that he may return to his property. Leviticus 25:23-28 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
According to the Old Testament, vast land holdings by a few and the permanent dispossession of many should never have occurred.
But who knows this well enough in the Progressive community to inform Biblically ignorant Christians of a fundamentally unrighteous, if not wicked, situation?
Nothing new about this. It’s the conservative foundational principle" Some people are better than others.
It expresses itself in the nationalist principle that some nations are superior to others. It also underlies the supremacist principle that some gene pools are better then other.
American "exceptionalism" is a variant of this, as is Nazi Aryanism. Other countries, people, religions, etc. have their own variants also.
But it boils down to superiority complex, which is usually accompanied by inferiority complex.
It’s the conservative foundational principle "Some people are better than others.["] Tom Hickey
Then conservatives should be in favor of a just system - to prove their true superiority.
So then who is it that is in favor of the current unjust system?
So then who is it that is in favor of the current unjust system?
Those whom the system favors.The problem is that those favored are usually in the minority. So this minority has to either dominate the majority with force or persuade enough it that it favors them, too, or at least that any alternative will make them worse off. Or by distraction like wedge issues.
It's called "duping the rubes," and conservatives are very good at it because it uses the tendency of people to want to feel superior when in fact they feel inferior.
Sometimes it comes back to bite them in the ass, though, when they form coalitions heavily weighted toward certain types of superiority and exclusivity, like racial.
or at least that any alternative will make them worse off. Tom Hickey
Sadly that's been the case since "reformers" have tended to throw the baby out with the bath water.
There is obviously MUCH that is correct* about the current system but there is obviously vastly unequal protection under the law too - especially wrt money and banking.
So why not fix what is obviously wrong because it is obviously unjust? Rather than allow the current unjust system to limp along for a while longer with obviously unjust kludges** like a Job Guarantee?
*How else the spectacular increase in wealth even if not justly shared?
**Who, for example, needs a job if she/he can work for themselves with adequate resources such as land and restitution for the systematic theft that has occurred under the current money system?
Andrew all of those OT arrangements for Israel came with terms which were subject to default...
How much did our Greco/Roman ancestors charge a citizen to attend a daily sacrificial meal at any of the numerous temples? How much did they charge citizens for water? How much did they charge to receive the daily dole?
Most of Christendom is reading the wrong scriptures for lessons pertaining to mankind's material/fleshly matters...
If you read that paragraph from Leviticus then how could Lazarus have existed? He was competing for scraps at the garbage can of the rich man with the dogs...
If that law was this great system and all that we should follow then how does Lazarus exist?
Jesus said to his Israelite disciples "the poor you will always be having..." how could this be if they had those laws?
how could this be if they had those laws? Matt Franko
Disobedience is the obvious answer and God will judge oppression of the poor.
You'll say we're not under the Old Testament Laws? Then what ones do you feel safe breaking? Eating pork? Fine, the New Testament explicitly says all foods are clean. Working on the Sabbath? According to Christ Himself, that's OK if one is doing good for others. Not stoning those guilty of adultery? Well, Jesus was certainly sinless Himself; He could have hurled the first stone but didn't so there's precedent for mercy wrt sexual sin. Collecting interest from one's fellow countrymen? That's perhaps debatable given the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25:14-30) and one's definition of foreigner.
But how much theft from the poor do you think the Lord condones? Even if by their supposed betters? How much dispossession from family farms and businesses by a government-privileged usury cartel do you think He allows for the sake of "efficiency", however unjustly obtained?
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