The problem is far greater than most can imagine.

The actual cause of human grief is one that cannot be comprehended by most humans as the cause because the cause is universally worshipped by humans as the greatest process on earth.

When the reward is wealth, the actions that lead to that reward cannot be avoided.

All of human grief, including poverty, disease, war … all can be laid at the feet of capital incentive.

Diseases are not cured because there is more money in selling momentary remedies that do little more than mask the symptoms by poisoning the part of the body that reacts to that disorder, while protecting the underlying disease which insures that the momentary remedies can be sold repeatedly to each sufferer who will never be rid of the malady – and in the case of contagious diseases continue to spread the diseases among friends and family, creating new paying customers.

Poverty cannot be ended because the whole system we live under demands a huge work-force be maintained at poverty level to insure their willingness to perform mindless menial tasks, essential to the profits of those with money, who own the machinery of civilization, in return for enough cash to prevent their own and their family’s starvation and maintain minimal shelter from the elements.

War is the great business plan, which turns a nation’s poor into willing slaves who will work tirelessly for the war effort, in the factories of the rich, for less than subsistence wages, manufacturing products paid for by public taxes, that will be destroyed over and over again, increasing the profits of the rich manifold.

The same poor will also fill the military ranks in order to earn enough money to feed their families and will willingly kill and die to steal a foreign nation’s wealth and resources for the rich non-combatants back home.

The chaos of war also keeps the general public unaware of the highly lucrative criminal enterprises of the vastly wealthy that always proliferate successfully under the fog of war.

The promise of the rewards of wealth lead inexorably towards the performance of those actions that create the most return on investment, and no power on earth can sway the human race from following those paths that are proven to be profitable as long as the primary incentive for life on earth is wealth.

None of the other consequent symptoms of human malfunction can be solved until humanity’s monetary addiction is cured.

Since the human race refuses to even accept the notion that money could possibly ever be any sort of a problem – except in the lack thereof – it is highly unlikely that any of humanity’s social dysfunctions can ever be solved.

I’m certainly not holding my breathe. 🙂

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