People think justice is a sacrifice, because they think more money is always better. It is very hard for them to realise justice has her arms full of happiness for overpaid and underpaid waiting"waiting"waiting through the ages for people to see reality the whole picture the downside of overpay - the Lindberg's child kidnapped and murdered Barbara Woolworth dying with $3000. People think the rich are secure, up there permanently it is everyone's dream to be rich and free from troubles it is easy for them to believe it because they want to believe it and they want to believe it because they have troubles. If they placed their hope in pay justice, their hopes can be realised, far beyond their fondest dreams. Change their dream from: The landlords oppress the peasants, may I be a landlord to: The landlords oppress the peasants, may there be an end to the sufferings of landlords and the sufferings of peasants. Look at the present wars among the Mexican druglords look at the present endless struggles and dangers of the sheiks in northern Iraq at the endless troubles of Queen Elizabeth I at the electric fence prison of Rockefeller at Howard Hughes dying alone, his teeth rotting in his head.
But alas, it seems there is just not enough will in people to learn the truth not enough alarm not 100th enough realism or willingness to think. Not even though it means survival, $40 an hour, and world peace and friendliness and calm and democracy and freedom like they have never known. Since they can't even understand that giving unlimited fortunes for what is absolutely limited work means having super-extreme, ever-growing overpay-underpay, unlimited tyranny-slavery and violence for everyone, what hope is there? They think that Bill Gates can do 180,000 years' work in one year - they think Gates can build 18,000 $1 million homes in a year so what sanity is there?
Re the importance of nationalizing the fed reserve it is very important, but is a branch problem. How are you going to do it before you fix the root problem, everyone thinking that overpay is good when it is evil for everyone? Fix the root problem and the branch problems fix themselves or get fixed easily, with universal will to change it. If you nationalize the fed reserve, the same overpaid will dominate the nationalized reserve nothing will change the bad root will still drive the branch problems. The solution is never near the problem did Pasteur find penicillin near the beds of the dying? No, he went away, following the causative line back from the beds to the root and he cut the root and the people in the beds got well. People are trying to solve the problem near the problems they are shortsighted.
Same with all problems they all go back to pay injustice, super-extreme undemocratic bias of power, the super-powerful way above the law, driven by defense costs to steal ever faster both internally and externally.
Making the swimming pool of wealth vertical like a Las Vegas needle fountain (with all the water that rises falling) is like building a building ever-taller on an ever-shrinking base. It's bound to collapse. Things haven't changed since the tower of Babel, which was a metaphor for what was happening then same as now pay injustice creates confusion of tongues everyone talking and no one learning or hearing.
We need to make the point strongly that fairpay injustice is not just one more problem: it is the root problem, fixing which fixes all the problems fixes suffocating bureaucracy, disinformation, tyranny, war, warmongering, starvation, overcrowding, corporate fascism, corruption, poverty, terrorism it fixes everything. How can anything work when a few have most of the money, which is the lubrication for the social machine, the blood of the social body?
If you want to stop raccoons becoming roadkill, only teaching raccoons traffic will do it: if you put up barriers they will just go round them.
The elite have always been under extreme attack, always been miserable, desperate, hard-laboured, doomed. Happiness is horizontal not vertical. Kindness (non injury, non theft) is good, practical, real self interest, is happiness for everyone therefore justice is good, beneficial, not a sacrifice for anyone. It's amazing that history and story are unanimous, the desperate struggles of the overpaid, and no one has learned it.
The rich may enjoy comforts and luxuries etc in the short run, but they can get no more enjoyment than the fairpaid on $40 an hour, because of physical limits of desires. All overestimation of rich enjoyment is moonshine glamour illusion driven by underpaid people still having substantial desires to satisfy, by underpaid people living vicariously through their dreams of the fabulousness of being wealthy. The greater the underpay, the more glamourous and wonderful overpay appears. Ray Kroc said about his wealth: So what? I still only have two feet.
Some rich do not fall within their own lifetimes, but people should be reminded that the overpaid experience power struggles all the time before they fall family who want a piece of it, subordinates who want to take over it is a hill of humans where everyone is being attacked from below and beside and above. Everyone below is trying to get higher to be less attacked/oppressed from above corporate infighting, competing for jobs, golddiggers, kidnappers, thieves, embezzlers, hostile takeovers etc etc necessarily so, inevitably, because no one settles for discomfort, everyone is uncomfortable, so everyone is moving in the hill.
Equality: no one above or below, everyone happier, freer, safer, liberated from troubles, struggles, conflict, betrayal in all groups crime gangs, families, companies, nations, empires.
Being rich getting overpay is not a win. It isn't a win relative to pay justice, it is a vast loss of ease, trust, safety, leisure, relaxation, enjoyment, confidence. Everyone is a giant loser in the hill of humans but people would rather kid themselves they are happy and right than face reality and improve their happiness really. Modern man's pride is stronger than his will to live to be realistic to be sane to be practical to be happy.
The rich have as much enjoyment as the fairpaid have apart from the danger, which is proportional to the pay injustice and the enjoyment is spoiled by the danger, by the absence of trust and safety. Like children with party cake - it is hard to enjoy what cake one has if everyone is constantly, ever more desperately and violently and sourly grabbing from everyone else, destroying the cake.
It looks as though the problem is the human insistence that the solution be where people are looking at the symptom level, at the detail level, at the part-picture level. People are mopping the floor instead of turning off the broken tap. They cannot understand why someone is leaving the problem of the wet floor in the living room and going away, upstairs (into the bathroom where the broken tap is) they just "know' that is the wrong thing to do and they keep mopping the floor. They think the pay-justice solution is unrealistic because it isn't addressing (directly) the wet floor.
It is like looking for the lost keys where the light is better for looking, and not looking where the keys fell. You have to teach people that the solution (to the immediate problems and most other problems) is simple if they look where the keys fell, where the problem started. It takes mental discipline not to pluck off the vine where it is strangling the roses, but to trace the vine back to the root, where one cut will kill the whole vine and keep it in check permanently with little effort.
People are fascinated by the immediate problems and can't take their eyes off them to look at the big picture and see the root cause.
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