I’ve always been greedy.
I mean growing up, I was a gluttonous boy and grew up to be a slave to my belly.
Had I not woken up one day and realized I was eating my way into an early grave, I would have ended up in it, perhaps prematurely.
But I did come to my senses. And I am better for it. Now I take care of my body. It requires a lot of constant work & attention to detail. But getting in shape & staying fit, takes up most of my free time.
But greed, greed is also at the core of everything bad in society.
Greed makes people not only fat and unfit to tie their own shoelaces or wipe their own behinds.
It makes them untrustworthy. For how can you trust someone who cannot stop themselves from overeating? Can you really trust someone who displays an outward lack of regard for measure, no self-control, and who lets his carnal passions overrule their decision-making faculties?
If he treats his own body with so much contempt and disregard, and considers their own life a joke to be trifled with, how would they, nay will they behave towards you?
Greed also makes people become hoarders of property.
Now I ain’t a Marxist, nor do I believe in the redistribution of assets and means of production.
The only thing a Marxist should get is measured in a fraction of an inch and is very portable, fast, yet robust. It is something that they themselves have been known to dispense it to those who allowed Marxists to take over.
I invite all to riddle me this riddle me that: what makes a Marxist a true believer?
But I digress.
Yet, hoarding, and vast and excessive accumulation of wealth is one of the hallmarks of capitalism.
Unfortunately.
You see, the resources, goods, and assets available and being created on Earth are forever expanding, some even exponentially. Yet, as plentiful, and vast as they may seem, they are not infinite, nor can they ever be so.
This means, everything is a sum-zero game. For each rich winner there must be one or more poor embittered losers.
Greed makes the losers of this game into potential Marxists. The losers become Losers.
And that is Bad. That is very Bad.
So, in a sense if Capitalism intends to make Marx’s predictions come true again and again (i.e., class struggle, etc etc etc), it just has to keep on pushing the greed button.
And this is entirely idiotic and pointless and unneeded.
Because in my mind, the raison d’être of Capitalism should be the pursuit of happiness, not that of capital.
But right now, it is the pursuit of mindless accumulation of wealth and power, for its own sake.
Yet, although I personally find it nefarious, I do not believe becoming wealthy is a crime. If that is what drives you, so be it. You should be your own judge, jury, and executioner.
I know, however, that while independent wealth and greed are not crimes, allying immense political power with vast amounts of money is a recipe for the destruction of the democratic principles that make life possible for the people.
The time has come to divorce political power from financial wealth.
Those who seek political office should divest themselves from any holdings or assets in excess of what is required for them and their families. Comfort for you and your family doesn’t require more than $50 million dollars. No matter how you slice and dice it.
If you want to accumulate more, that is more than fine. It is your right. Not a privilege. A right.
But when and if you decide to take that route, you will have to renounce your electoral and political franchise. Any person, whose assets exceed $50 million, should become automatically ineligible to any political office, nor should they retain the right to vote.
Money is fine.
Political rights and power are fine.
You ally both in the same person – you make them too powerful for the rest of the people, who have access to neither in the same proportion.
This is what doesn’t work and hasn’t worked in a long time. Yet people do not understand that Greed undermined the System a long time ago.
For make no mistake, the System is rigged and Greed is rigging it.
Götterdämmerung 