The Failure of Capitalism

Capitalism, many say, is responsible for the advancement of the human race into a computerized age; where the poor are fed, the masses see an advancement of opportunities, democracy prevails and industries boom. On the other hand, capitalism has been responsible for some of the worst atrocities committed by mankind in the entirety of its history; the slave trade (past and present), genocide of many indigenous groups, the suppression of the proletariat and let's not forget that the rhetoric used to condone The Holocaust was largely based on economics.

Throughout history, there has been a ruling class, once with faces and names such as monarchies and emperors but in the late 20th and the early 21st century, these accountable 'leaders' have begun to successfully hide behind the veil of corporations and plutocratic bureaucracy.

On the rare occasions that these figures enter the public light it is as a person who can be seen to have provided some sort of service to mankind. These persons (such as Bill Gates or Steve Jobs) often have contributed little more than the next craze which is designed to numb the masses and misdirect their attention away from real issues. They often become more of a cult symbol akin to the cult of personality surrounding Stalin or Hitler.

In recent years we have seen an emergence of anti-establishment politics such as UKIP in the UK, Donald Trump in the US, Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines and Marion Maréchal-Le Pen in France. These politicians and their popularity show an obvious distrust of the status quo and the 'establishment' as a whole. The problem is that they often work within and have progressed through the same establishment which they are fighting against.

We need to start thinking about the problems that actually run rife within our world as a whole, the fact that the world has an unplayable debt to nobody other than the banks which created said debt, the fact that a select group of families control the majority of the world's wealth and means of production, the fact that most of us will work until death for little more than a mere wage and survival and the fact that surplus food and medicines don't go to those in need, they go to waste.

We are told we are free, but I cannot build a house on unused land, I cannot collect water from reservoirs freely, I cannot start a business without their permission and I cannot hunt and gather my own food. I am not saying that I would necessarily wish to do all of these things but the control on our liberties is so tight that even if I did, I couldn't. The minority subdue and tame the majority by simply drip feeding us the smallest bits of technology and respite that will just about keep us in our place. They also do this by allowing us to think that we may, one day, get lucky on the lottery or wind up famous enough to strike it rich. For those who don't count on this there is always the belief that they will be rewarded after they die by following these stringent rules set down by multi-billion dollar organisations, and yes, I am talking about religions. Yet what we call rich is a mere fraction of their wealth.

They make money through manipulating money, they create money through banks, they control our world with little more than paper, plastic and digital numbers and this system means that commodities and resources may never benefit the people who's land it is mined from.

We all know that Africa (a once prosperous continent) has been pillaged by the West and her allies, rural Africa pillaged by Metropolitan Africa. Metropolitan Africa has been conned and cheated by the first world governments. And this pattern emerges elsewhere, we pay the banks, the banks collapse, we then pay the banks again (through taxes) to keep the banks, the politicians then sell off the public shares at a reduced rate to their rich cronies and the banks continue to gamble with OUR money on the Las Vegas of economics- the stock exchange.

It's time to start being an altruistic species again, the altruism which made our species dominate the globe now needs to rear its majestic head in an uprising of epic proportions. We must throw off these shackles of oppression and take back what is ours. The slaves of old were given food and shelter. The only difference now is that we must provide that for ourselves and the surplus wealth we may have then goes to other necessities such as energy, water or the next big craze designed by the corporations to sap every last penny from you. We are still slaves, just under a different guise and it is time that we were all Spartacus.