Friday, November 7, 2014
A Change in the Game
In today's society, the way the world functions in my opinion is the opposite of what it should be. We live in a world where basketball players and rappers make more money than doctors who actually save lives and make difference in the world. While discussing Marx this past week, I have gained a better understanding of the two classes Marx has established. The first class he states are the bourgeoise and then the proletariats. The bourgeoise are the rich and powerful people of society. Marx defines them as the owners of means of production. The proletariats are what you call the blue-collar workers; the people who work for the owners of production. We learned that capitalism is the system of production that produces the class struggle in the most violent way. With the capitalist system, it itself produces a contradiction. The contradiction basically says proletariats contribute and or work the most but receives little to nothing. On the contrary, the bourgeoise receives the benefits of the workers, but do little to nothing. This way of living and producing goods has been around for years, maybe even centuries. When is enough, enough? In the present time, I feel like everyone should not have to struggle in society. Everyone does not necessarily, have to hundreds of thousands of dollars in the bank, but people should have the basic necessities in order to survive. Everyone should reap the same amount of benefits, no matter if they contributed time/effort or money/resources. Everyone deserves fair chance. So my question is why do you think people in society allow this trend continue? Why hasn't someone tried to change the game?
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There are two main reasons why no one will change the game up, the verbal one that you will hear which is "Don't fix it if it is not broken," and the truth behind it which is, the Bourgeoise have gained so much power that they will crush anyone who insists in taking away their "deserved" paycheck. Look at occupy Wall Street, a way in which they peacefully protested in the gap between the top 1% and the bottom 99%. This movement was stopped due to the opinions of the media, some of the rich were willing to take lower pay cuts others how ever spread lies and rumors to make sure that majority of ignorant Americans understood that the occupy Wall Street was "a bad thing" and " is lead by a bunch of hippies that know no better." Then, the idolization of celebrities leads to ultimate fall of the occupy movement, if Americans were not so enticed to follow the life of Kim and Kanye West or buy a pair of $300 pair of beats that normally cost $20 (including the cost of parts and cheap Chinese labor) then we could disintegrate the gap between us and the Borgeoise. The final nail in the coffin that destroys people changing the is the belief in the media and the reliance of information to be true with people thinking that everything they see from CNN or FOX or even the internet is 100% true and the fact that they only report on the popular belief on something instead of showing you both sides, though many may not believe it, but there are always to sides of a coin, and no one can prove other wise.
ReplyDeleteI think that we are just so used to this system that we can't see all that is wrong with it anymore. We work and allow the rich to pay us the minimal amount out of necessity because if a person doesn't work he can’t survive. Also, as it was mentioned in class, it will take a group and not just one individual to rebel against Capitalism. When we, the proletariats, unite capitalism will be able to be overthrown.
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