If you are born rich then you have such an enormous advantage over someone born in destitution. If you live in extreme poverty you are hungry, tired, sick and just trying to survive. When your most basic needs are not met you don’t have the time or energy to concentrate on improving your life. That is why we need to ensure all citizens have their basic needs met. These are fellow humans who the system treats as if they don’t matter. They are people that live all around us, who are part of the community. How many extremely smart hard working individuals have we lost to poverty, who may have changed the world, but never got the chance?

The entire American system is rigged against the middle and lower classes. It is impossible for normal people to even imagine the amount of money the wealthiest people have. You may think you are doing well because you make more money than most people around here, but it is nothing compared with what the richest people have. I don’t need to be a billionaire, but I think average people should have a little bit bigger share. With money comes power and that is the real issue.

Money and power are the goals. Buying politicians to vote for policies that further those goals is how they achieve it. Then they are able to buy more politicians because they have more money and power. This is the feedback loop making everything worse for average people over time.

Inflation keeps our money continuously devalued, while the price of everything goes up. The cost of rent, healthcare, groceries always goes up. You work your whole lives hoping you can save enough to retire before you die. The best years of your life are spent working, time that could be spent with family and friends, pursuing your passions and enjoying life. Time to watch your children grow and help them have a life to look forward to.

We are charged insane prices for healthcare and given drugs that are known to be extremely addictive. Healthcare used to be covered by most employers, but they offloaded the healthcare costs on to the employees. They did the same thing for retirement benefits. Moved from pensions to 401k’s which moved risk to the worker. Food isn’t healthy and made with artificial everything. Phones and technology are as addictive as possible so they can steal our data, send us targeted ads for products we don’t need and spy on us. The justice system protects the wealthy while punishing the poor.

They want to keep us uneducated by defunding and then killing public schools. This is just another way to monetize essential parts of society and suck money out of the middle class just like they did with healthcare and retirement. Private schools will become more popular as public schools get worse, so then we are charged for private school or withheld a quality education.

People do become very successful from humble beginnings, but it is very hard. It should be hard, but not virtually impossible. Many people have good lives, but it is becoming more difficult.

I am not saying all of this is a grand conspiracy theory, but if the government doesn’t pass laws to protect us from these practices then they are complicit. All of this is done for profit at the expense of people. Everyone should have the same rights, be treated the same under the law and given at least a fighting chance to be successful. The system is built around Wealth Inequality which leads to Political Capture which leads to a Two-Tiered Justice System that then reinforces the goals of the system to increase money, power and control in the hands of the few.

We have to have a system that works for more people because if enough people give up on the system itself then the entire system will collapse for everyone.