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I think from now on we should only use the term "parasite class" when talking about the elites, the 1%, the billionaires, the wealthy, the rich, the landlords. Make it a habit, maybe even trendy. Parasite class. I like it.
I've always thought of them as parasites. Like...
An economy is a big system of trading money for services, round and round, do stuff trade money, do other stuff trade money.
But we're like, "how come stuff is getting more expensive and we're making less money?"
Because there's a problem in the system. There's a fat fucking leech... or a few hundred, amassing money, and the system further empowers those with money, giving them more control over the system. It's a very broken positive feedback loop upon itself.
It's like a boat that's sprung leaks. It doesn't matter how much money you print or who you vote for if you don't plug the leaks from the system and prevent the fuckers from stabbing more holes in it, you need to simultaneously plug the holes, make sure nobody else is drowning, and slit the throats of the people doing it and get rid of them.
The boat is going down and they're stabbing as many big holes as they can, as fast as they can. There will come a point VERY soon where it won't matter if they stop or not, this ship is gonna sink, and I'm afraid that we're seriously almost there. The United States won't last at all if they keep doing this for another year.
We've been sick right now, fighting cancer for a long time, but it's metastasized into all branches of the government and a lot of the people, who now directly do the bidding of the parasites.
So, I was thinking about this earlier, actually, and I was trying to conceptualize the differences in vibe between the problems that liberals and conservatives disagree with, and then the other types that reek of billionaire leeches. There are some minor differences that we have with normal conservatives: religion, family structures, traditions and such. But when capitalist leeches really take hold like this, it's an entirely different vibe of problems that society faces. You can tell when poor conservatives are starting to hurt from them too.
It's really obvious if you think about it at all: when your political or socioeconomic beliefs no longer serve you, but serve the billionaires, it's SO obvious who's pulling the strings - if you're miserable (and it isn't just through empathy for others' problems), it's likely that you've reached the point in society, or rather, the point is society has reached YOU where it's starting to be shitty.
I'm a believer that the vast majority of us want to do things and be productive somewhat, and self help and try to be happy and healthy. So, when the prices of goods and services and housing are out of your reach for whatever reason, that is a problem with society. It's really not complicated at all.
Right now, we live in an insanely convoluted bandaid patchwork boat, because generations of assholes have been stabbing fucking holes in it and instead of guillotining the fuck out of the correct people and values in society, we've mistakenly corrupted what chances we've had at fixing them, and let it fester and grow. Now, it's super established to the point where the entire government is killing itself just so that the leeches can continue to grow. It's quite literally brain cancer of society.
This country is on a fast track to being a living zombie while the parasites eat the brain and fully destroy the immune system. They don't know any better, it's just what they are.
Another perspective is that maybe we'll get pulled into a truly sci-fi dystopia, where some mega-corporations explicitly own us all. Sure, the human system will have grown massive on a universal scale (if it doesn't destroy itself in the process). But it'll be a far cry from what we are capable of under a better system, one that actually harnesses each and every one of our potential to form our self revolving universe around ourselves, intelligently, rather than slaverly.
Building things like the pyramids and skyscrapers is amazing. But imagine what could be accomplished with better resource management and a more egalitarian allocation of resources. A world where every person is well maintained and is given the ability of enlightenment and a full self awareness. That's the world I wanna live in, not this shitty future, full of oligarchs and oblivious, ruthless human greed.
Maybe we do deserve world war three. But I know that the only way we're going to learn anything is through actual elevation of education systems, and not through pain, suffering, and war.