Nowadays,
we live in a society that value money over all. This is capitalism. Capitalism
shows you that the only way to progress is to desire money and try to earn the
most that you can. No matter if some people end in the street; you are better,
you have better ideas, you earn more money, you know how to destroy the
competence. Who can blame you for being more intelligent?
We are like
children; we want to accumulate properties to feel successful ourselves. We
have forgotten how is the satisfaction to rich a goal, we only want to get it
if, at the end, there is some money for you. This is, in part, education’s
fault. The evidence of this point is that you are worse seen if you fight for
an objective not related with money that if you cheat someone to get some
money.
An example: A commercial convinces that you
need to buy a running machine to be well-looking. You buy it and you realize
that, with your 40th, you can’t be like when you were 20th.
Isn’t it a cheat? However, it is totally accepted in our society. The owners of
the running machine company are more “normal” in our society that a person who
work for free because he likes to do his work. How many people would present
their TDR to a championship if there wasn’t a price for the best project?
Of course,
there are other people that can’t accept these points. So there are two groups
of people in our society: the first group value money over all and think that
they can buy anything with money, they try to solve all the problems with money
but they become stressful when they find a problem that money can’t solve. In this
moment, when they realize that money is not always the solution, they change
their position and start to own to the second group of people. The second group
knows that are feelings that can’t be bought, so they value other things like
friendship, love, motivation to have knowledge, etc.
The truth
is that, in my opinion, everybody starts in the first group and almost
everybody ends in the second group. The difference is that there are people who
change the group when they are children, there are the ones who do it when they
are teenagers, the ones who do it when they are adults and there are few ones
who never will pass this step.
What I
meant with capitalism is not that it is a bad way to govern, only that this type
of society makes us to change the group much later that we would to in another
society.
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