When I read and think about the current Occupy Wall Street movement I think about why all these people are willing to stand up and take action. They feel that due to the inequity in society today control over their own lives and their future has been diminished. When the big banks and corporations operate in ways that harm the opportunities and slant the playing field for most of us, we end up feeling that their self serving greedy actions inhibit our chance at having control over our lives and our futures.
When you don't pay attention to your health and just expect that the doctor, your health insurance and pharmaceutical drugs will cure or fix any health problem that comes up, you are giving control over your future to an institution or industry. It's one thing to have insurance and your doctor as a back up or support system, while you do all you can to live a healthy lifestyle and have control over your own health. Unfortunately and I hope you are not one of the people out there that don't do much to take charge of their own health. Do you just eat anything you want regardless of the health consequences of things like fast food, soda, sugar, salts, too much refined foods and not enough fresh fruits and vegetables.
The wealth inequity that is currently destroying our democracy is also taking away our control over our own lives. When we do not have the basic financial level required to choose healthy foods, to live in a warm dry space, to get the health care we need when we do need it, we are not in control of our lives. When there are not enough living wage jobs for people and the cost of goods, education and health care sky rocket out of reach for most people, we lose more of the control we should have in our lives.
This wealth inequity is between the 1% and the 99% of the population and the wealth is being used to cement the focus of our representative democracy on what's important to the 1 %, which appears to be the power and maintenance of their wealth. Our elected representatives do not represent us anymore, they are bought and sold in an electoral system that is controlled by the wealth of the 1%. It is no wonder that so many people have finally reached the point where societies all over this planet are rising up and taking a stand to regain the control over their lives they feel they have lost and continue to lose.
One of the big differences between living in a free democratic society and living under a dictator or fascist regime is that in a free democratic society you feel like you have some reasonable level of control over your daily live and your future. The current direction the wealth gap is leading will take us into endless turmoil of disruption and eventually to revolution and remaking of the playing field.
It would be smart of the 1% who have the majority of the wealth in the world to realize that their hold on this position is far more tenuous than they think. When the other 99% percent of the people will not tolerate the inequity any longer and are pushed to the edge they will fight back and the 1% will lose. They will be seen as corrupt and evil. This does not have to be the way it goes. The 1% can voluntarily work to level the playing field by giving back and sharing their wealth to a degree that insures a reasonable safety net and basic concern and care for living wages, honesty and ethical behavior in the financial sector of society.
Living only for profit and the might of the dollar as your only concern while ignoring the plight of the majority of your fellow citizens is a recipe for disaster and will only end in disruption. This is what we see happening today in countries around the world. The only power the masses have is mass disruption when the electoral system and our representatives are owned by the wealthy few.
Michael writes articles and e-books about natural health, skin care strategies and sustainable healthy lifestyles. For more on environmental preservation for a more equitable planet visit our website at http://www.amazonpreservation.com
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