Distribute to win back

We buy because it is cheap and not because the industry is environmentally friendly or because it pays its taxes and offers good salaries. We buy what money allows, because, far more important than being aware, is making a small salary last the whole month. Dressing your kids is more urgent than worrying about an unknown employee from a factory on the other side of the world who doesn’t even speak your language or knows you exist, but who sews cheap T-shirts.

Rivers and lakes are just as important to our well-being as they are far from the daily lives of most people. Not thinking about ecology is enough to abstain, and this is the best solution for most people who already have too many problems. So, the Amazon burns at the hands of an industry that does not bring the development that its defenders preach, enriching few in exchange for the environmental wear and tear that harms everyone, even the unknown employee, on the other side of the planet.

The industry commits its crimes, but the culprits will always be the consumers, who are also the victims. An unfortunate cycle that perpetuates devastation in exchange for the poor quality of life that the poorest achieve with a lot of sweat, and that are not willing to give up. Still good.

The rich blame their slave ancestors, while at the same time as they plurge on their inheritances. The industry blames governments for high taxes that slow growth, while owing billions to public safes. Consumers repudiate the corruption that destroys the nation, while evading. The problem with pointing out the culprit is avoiding the problem.

I recently talked about it from another perspective:

Convenient solutions like these were those that filled our oceans with plastic, sponsored wars, stimulated the concentration of income and made work precarious. Every day humanity advances in science and technology, creates new niches and ways of doing business, without the vast majority benefiting.

It is up to society to regain control over how these changes affect politics, ecology and society, preventing a few from determining the future of the world, free from the consequences of their actions. Democracy, transparency, taxes on large fortunes, minimum and maximum wages, are some of the ways for society to take control and deal with their problems again, instead of outsourcing them for expensive and convenient solutions for the personal assets of their creators. The world needs less of powerful corporations and gurus and more of cooperatives and micro investors. The time is to distribute to win back.

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