Living under capitalism sucks
I think it's important, especially as we get older, to remember that anti-capitalist views are not something we're meant to grow out of. That's a trap so many of us fall into as we get older, and it's a big reason why things never change. It's okay to point out when things are clearly wrong or could be better, even as adults.
Capitalism leads to unhealthy lifestyles and major depression for many people living under it. It creates wars, homelessness, mass incarceration, and mass inequality. It's a system that was built to function for the 1500s, not modern times, and it's not only showing its age but also causing distress, anger, and sadness to the younger generations we're forcing it on.
It is, by definition, forced labor. None of us ever agreed to a lifetime of work. We never said we would. We were not given other options. We're told from the time we're young that money is the thing with value, not human life. We're taught that all that really counts is your monetary value. If your monetary value sinks too low, you're no longer "deserving" of the necessities of a human life. You didn't meet the standard set by the man-made economic structure; therefore, you deserve to suffer or even potentially die from overexposure in the streets.
This outdated system takes nearly all the time and energy from those you love and forces them to live their lives in ways they would clearly never otherwise choose. It's a complete joke to call any country forcing its citizens to do things against their will free. It's propaganda, and as long as we live under capitalism, we do not live in free countries. We live under a very old, very outdated system of forced labor.
Every human on earth deserves food, water, shelter, education, comfort, and happiness BY DEFAULT, no questions asked. People deserve to have freedom of choice in terms of their life and how it looks, without being threatened with homelessness.
"There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside." - Upton Sinclair
"We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifice. The fact is that capitalism was built on the exploitation and suffering of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor - both black and white, here and abroad." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather than in its disturbances and diseases." - Herbert Marcuse
"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words" - Ursula K. Le Guin
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