Our System

We once were nomads, and come to live according to the availability of resources in a particular location until that does not meet our needs and then we moved to another area most abundant.

Rational beings we are, and following our own evolution, we conclude that in different places had different resources, so, rather we moved constantly back and forth, we could swap goods.

This "trade" was created by us so we get the possibility of having our needs met with as little effort as possible - because our intelligence and evolution has enabled us to such conclusions and measures.

The trading system we create, ideally, work for something that we had excess supply the lack of anyone without this "thing", and in turn, we do lack something in return for what would be in surplus from them.

With the creation of a "currency" that could be exchanged for any property, our life was easier, but it also generated a chronic difficulty in our own system. For the more this "money" we were able to have, the greater our ability to acquire.

It became more interesting "economically" have the money than owning assets of survival, since in the possession of money, we could own everything.

The system created by us worked extremely well for our exchanges were facilitated, so that our lives become easier - in that period of time.

However, we remain capable of reasoning and evolution, and equally able to realize that there are some fatal flaws in our system.

Any way of trade we created by a major reason - so that life could be possible even with a shortage of certain resources in certain areas where there life was harder.

Since in our system happens that people are dying of hunger (though far from the area where we live), our system is no longer efficient.

Not to talk about natural resources that we already know to be finite, or the advancement of technology and progress and makes us want to consume ever more of an issue already ingrained in our culture and our concept of the "own" is a sign of prosperity and thus a greater capacity for survival.

With this our behavior, we leave out the natural instincts of human beings to live in community and in harmony with other human beings (we have real needs of love, understanding, attention - we want and need to be heard, seen and be part of a community).

Now we were (we create the system required) on an individual basis. To survive with our system, we must have money. We have to work. We have (preferably) to have a car so we can work harder and get faster to meet the system requirements, and so on.

We can not afford to be content with public transport, which are not always ideal, because there is a risk of being robbed at gunpoint by people who are victims of the system we create.

We have to have a little money to spare for an emergency, or we are subject to massive queues in public hospitals where care is at least questionable.

The more "money" we have, the better our chances of being treated in the best hospitals, our children have access to better education and our leisure time to be the most enjoyable.

But as we know, we still are rational human beings in evolution, even and while we live this way.

We know that something is "off," or "inadequate."

We are not satisfied.

We breathe polluted air to maintain a functioning system we have created. We are sicker and die more easily from preventable ways in order to keep our system running.

Conveniently for the our government, we forget that we who create the system and what was our goal when we created - the life support.

And it is undeniable that our system has crashed from the moment that there are lives lost due to the system itself.

Can we change anything?

We are the only possibility of change.

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