Our
ten illusions about inequality and peace.
Yesterday
I realized that we humans do not focus well on
the goals of life. We
still have a long journey to go, when it comes to "Artham,"
the way of power and wealth.
I
think the Eastern view that life is an illusion is more attached to
living reality and our nature.
We
cannot define the
accumulation of wealth on earth as bad, though as we all know,
everything stays when we die.
First
illusion: Moral: All that remains of what we saved after death is
exactly what we work for
in vain.

Second
illusion: Why do
we fear losing
what is left, if what
is left is excess?
Third
illusion: We've never seen a millionaire lose
his fear even after building
a very high fence. I knew a great millionaire in Monterrey that slept
with a guard outside his room, despite the
fact his home had a wall three meters high
and electrified.
Perhaps
fear is directly proportional to the size of the fence?
Money
creates the
accumulation of wealth and
power and this power makes one build bigger
and higher walls
to protect the
wealth. This
fence is called laws and punishments.
Fourth
illusion: Artificially, this power and wealth creates the right to
private property, which is a universal and positive law, but we
forget that others have the right to meet their needs also, and this
is above the right to accumulate. Others also have ambitions that may
be legitimate or not legitimate and that although the punitive law
does not eliminate the rights of others to survive, or diminish
ambitions.
We
forget that even the most interesting story of wealth accumulation
depended on the work of others, because nobody can get rich alone. If
you build a team, for sure the output will have to be divided
equally.
Fifth
illusion: Any sensible thinker would say that if the rich accumulated
his wealth by the work of others and they
were not compensated equally, only then he
is exploiting; In a forest of trees, if only we take and we do not
give back the same of what we cut
, we call that exploitation and nature eventually
will pass an invoice for sure. Nobody has the right to exploit anyone
and if you do, wait for nature to compensate. This
is inevitable. I see that exploitation always smells like
blood.
In
the world, rich people created plutocratic states, and these states
form armies to protect the wealth of the millionaires who control the
country.
Sixth
illusion: Let us realize that in order to sustain the interest of
these plutocratic nations we will
have to sacrifice young people for the sake of homeland defense, when
it only defends
the interests of powerful minorities. Maybe
you can maybe justify homeland defense,
but you can not
justify the defense of the interests of the country abroad. It
is only the illusion of patriotic unity. The
children of the rich almost never die in war. The
poor boys are the only ones
who are killed as they
have less to lose.
We
can accept that perhaps we deserve more if we work more and if we
don’t work we might not deserve
anything. Actually it is not that way, as the time rates for working
are not the same for everyone.
Eighth
illusion: In our society we value mason workers and the civil
engineers on a construction site
differently. Aren't
both as important? What is true is
that a Mason has a lower life expectancy
than a civil engineer? I have never seen an engineer laying bricks on
a wall or a mason worker calculating a structure. Is
it true that both are needed equally? Inequality in pay
rates causes the problem of envy and
injustice. "Equal pay for equal work, with the same rate if the
effort is the same" We could perhaps accept a near "double"
rate for the engineer, but never absurd multiples for the capitalist,
a big differential in today’s world.
We
can define justice as to satisfy what
everyone needs and how much effort you provide to others.
So why this abysmal inequality?
Ninth
illusion: By observing social inequality we may think that this will
bring Peace and Justice, then we are living the greatest illusion,
because this will not happen despite the laws.
Tenth
illusion: If we believe that human beings are like that, and we are
satisfied with it, then we can only expect that the world will not
change, because to believe otherwise would be an illusion; to expect
a different world without the same inequality.
My
thoughts by default do not expect more of the same world. What
I see is that we have to change to a more just world to deserve more
peace.
Some
may think that what I write here is similar to "Dialectical
Materialism" of Karl Marx, but it is not. What
I want is peace and justice, and one without the other cannot exist.
I am not seeking
to rob the rich and take all from them, what I want is to give the
poor a better chance for life. This is not a theory, not a fact, it
is only seeking to be consistent with myself and accept that I am
part of inequality and therefore part of the problem of an illusory
world attached to matter.
Fernando Ferrara
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