[ENG] every 15 seconds
What do you mean ‘Capitalism has brought us so much?’
On one side of the world people live in houses that are too big, they have multiple cars, a stack of unused old iPhones in a drawer, on every wall a tv, clothes to last a lifetime, and enough food waste to feed a family.
On the other side of the world though, a child dies of hunger, every 15 seconds.
Every 15 Seconds
And this is the best system we can come up with? We can not have an imaginative discussion about better ways to organise our economy and our labour, and the distribution on our collective wealth? Really? 6 Billionaires have as much wealth as 50% of the world pollution. That’s the systems distribution you think is best? We can do much, much better. Much better for many more people. And still live comfortable communal lives. But we must address the core problem, and be willing to think of a new or different system. To think beyond what is taught to us as the only system possible. Beyond capitalism. With its obsessive growth paradigm, its lopsided accumulation of wealth, and its extremely unfair distribution on goods. Capitalism does not produce things for a better life, it produces things for profit, if some of it inadvertently leads to ‘better’ lives for some, that is great. But that always ignores that huge costs to other people, and to nature.
We must imagine a system that works towards better lives for everybody, instead of a few. That enhances healthcare, education, healthy food, public transport, community, art. An economic system for the people, not for the few.
Destroy Thatcher’s ‘There is no alternative’! It truly is the most narrow minded, imperialist, systems oppression. It ends all possibilities of a different, much better system. It ignores the thoughts of future thinkers, and it ignores the plight of the oppressed and poor. It kills imagination.
We should all be taught to imagine a better future, without the constraints of the current economic paradigm of growth and market competition. Without any rules whatsoever, bar a general regards for the improvement of the well being of all humans and animals, and a positive contribution to climate change and nature.