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More regrets keep piling up every day

Irsin Kast is no economist.
But out of sheer principle,
I’m wondering why no politician is working
on an ACTUAL plan to take back
the surplus amounts of funds
that are safely tucked away with the 1%?

Their financial structures are fraudulent by nature,
but so finely constructed and protected,
that they seemingly can’t be touched.
Even though it is clear that the real deficit is created just there.
And maybe only there.
That should be the focus area.

Could it be that our politician’s interests
are too much intertwined with the fate of the rich?
Our representatives are getting paid
top dollar and euro
to screw us - the 99% - over
in the name of the 1%,
and still we keep voting for them.
We’re losing our wages,
our social protection
and ultimately,
our right to truly exist
in the process.

I’m not the first to say this.
But I will keep on repeating it.
It is often stated that
the consumer market is the new religion of the west.
Shouldn’t we apply the secular principle here
as well?
A God free
and economy free government,
that serves the people’s interests
in the wider spectrum.

In my opinion
spirituality should be a pure personal conviction
or a supportive system
that unites people for other reasons than social order.
Free of the judgment it now often emits.

As far as the economy
and more specifically
the market mechanisms go,
I believe
they should not be left to algorithms
and, let’s face it: sheer gambling.
It should be a system that supports
the organization of public order.
A slave to the state,
not a ruler of it.

Why on earth even
should a market exist
to generate and shift around money?
Money was developed as a tool
to support and facilitate trade,
not as a goal in itself.
Is it too far-reaching to say
that the stock-market should be outlawed
because it conflicts with human rights?

The right to wildly consume whatever pleases us,
is not in the interest of everyone
and most certainly an infringement
of the freedom of others.
Of many, actually.
Moderation and rationing
should be our new mindset
if we insist on inhabiting a planet
with over 7 billion people.
Concepts that conflict with the average of human nature maybe?
But maybe we can self-induce
a new stage of evolution
for the benefit of all?

What kind of vote do we have left to cast?
What can set this wheel in motion?
If we don’t reboot our thinking,
something else will do it for us.
That’s how it works
if you keep disrupting a balance.
Something will bounce back.


My only regret is
that the devastation
will not be top-down,
but the other way around.