"Of course, I’m not complaining about competition nor individualism. Due to competition and capitalism, we live like kings"
Do we? Or is that only if we take into account some aspects of a King's life, perhaps the less important material ones? We surely don't have the sovereignity and power of Kings. Or their influence. We also don't have the wealth of Kings. Kings might not have had light bulbs and Amazon delivery, but they had no bosses or precarious working conditions (the ocassional French Revolution aside).
Plus a huge number of people, according to recent statistics, lives in dire social and psyhological conditions, depressed, friendless, with no support group, and works to exhaustion, whether white colar or blue colar. And that's in the lucky west. Billions has their countries colonized and their resources stolen, and themselves enslaved and bombed.
We should count those also in to pros and cons of "competition and capitalism".
And I don't think that we should not be complaining because "Korea and Japan have this worse". We should complain to avoid going towards that worse.
For the most part, I agree with you - there are still lots of problems that we need to solve. I'm just trying to say that we shouldn't look at the situation as being completely black and white :)
"Of course, I’m not complaining about competition nor individualism. Due to competition and capitalism, we live like kings"
Do we? Or is that only if we take into account some aspects of a King's life, perhaps the less important material ones? We surely don't have the sovereignity and power of Kings. Or their influence. We also don't have the wealth of Kings. Kings might not have had light bulbs and Amazon delivery, but they had no bosses or precarious working conditions (the ocassional French Revolution aside).
Plus a huge number of people, according to recent statistics, lives in dire social and psyhological conditions, depressed, friendless, with no support group, and works to exhaustion, whether white colar or blue colar. And that's in the lucky west. Billions has their countries colonized and their resources stolen, and themselves enslaved and bombed.
We should count those also in to pros and cons of "competition and capitalism".
And I don't think that we should not be complaining because "Korea and Japan have this worse". We should complain to avoid going towards that worse.
For the most part, I agree with you - there are still lots of problems that we need to solve. I'm just trying to say that we shouldn't look at the situation as being completely black and white :)