A Reflection on Wealth, Waste, and What We Owe Each Other
The modern world, as we humans have shaped it to our advantage, is pretty cool — but it also hides flaws that have been showing for centuries, plus newer ones that have emerged recently. For example, I sometimes ask myself: If we're so advanced and so great, why do we still stone women? Why do we let tens of thousands of children die in workplace accidents? Why do we let families raise their children in poverty and malnutrition, then blame crime rates when the crime itself is embedded in the day-to-day lives of millions from birth?
You might say, "Oh well, Alex, I was poor as a child and look at me now — I have a 9-to-5, I'm living paycheck to paycheck, I live with strangers in an apartment my landlord doesn't care about, and I don't steal or commit crimes." So the only true thing to do is... eat the rich, right?
Well, dear average person, I say nay and aye. Fuck that, but also fuck them too.
You know those bastards we resent for their wealth? Some will tell you they earned it by working hard and doing something others didn't. Bullshit. Most of them come from filthy rich parents who maybe also come from a long chain of filthy rich parents. Take jeff bezos — notice the lowercase, he is a lesser individual to me and an anti-philanthropist. He never had to watch his mother skip dinner and say she wasn't hungry, knowing damn well she was empty so he could be full. He never had to carry that image in his chest — the woman who gave him everything, giving up her own meal so he wouldn't feel the weight of their nothing. That kind of hunger isn't in the belly. It lives in your memory forever. And it's fucking disgusting that some choose to hoard something as sacred as money, locking it away for only themselves to use. I get it — maybe you like having a lot of money. But once you have, say, over 8 million euros, your life and the lives of your close ones are pretty much set. You don't really need any more than that. Yet some still decide to keep tons of this shit we call currency.
I fucking hate money. And you should too. Not because having enough to live is bad, but because we let a made-up scorekeeping system decide who gets to exist and who gets to starve. Money isn't just paper or digits — it's stored deprivation. Every excess zero in a bank account is someone's missing meal, someone's untreated illness, someone's unlived life. We already produce enough food, energy, and shelter for everyone. The problem isn't scarcity — it's that we've built a world where hoarding is rewarded and need is punished.
Why are we still so fucking undeveloped socially that we keep using all this infrastructure to our somewhat advantage? Why not do better? Why not use all the bright minds that go into the military-industrial complex to solve world-changing problems — like how to help the next generation of Venezuelans or Haitians avoid the same mistakes as the previous generation? I'm not implying that the people themselves are who we should turn against; it's the way these people are grown that we should change ASAP. We're slowly spiraling into a loop of incompetence, high ego, and poverty.
The day we teach our offspring that every action has a reaction, they will learn to use the resources of this beautiful earth to humanity's true advantage: live, eat, love, and die. You don't need to kill others just because they have some religion that contradicts yours.
There are so many things that divide us — religion, countries, traditions, and beliefs passed down from generation to generation. I don't mean to say we should be dumb, unopinionated, or uncultured. Rather, we should accept that we're not better than anyone, and all you need a lightbulb for is to see in the dark.
Don't get me started on those who leave their lights, TV, and everything turned on during the daytime when no one's home. I know several wealthy people who do this, and whenever I protest about how ridiculous that is, they just don't understand. Why do you need LEDs all over your kitchen island turned on when you're not even there? We take so much for granted, but no one knows the amount of work it takes just to make an LED.
The earth is one big rock. We drew imaginary lines on it so we'd have someone to hate besides the people who actually fuck us over. Countries aren't real. Borders aren't real. They're just stories sold to dumb people to make them dumber — to make you think the family across the line is your enemy while someone you've never met steals your future.
I'm not trying to erase culture. Keep your language, your food, your music. That's not the wall. The wall is the idea that because you were born on this patch of dirt, you owe nothing to the person on the other side. We're one species. One organism. And the only way we stop letting the few hoard while the many starve is to finally start acting like it.
Waste of all kinds is a problem too — people who think they're important enough to waste, and people who think they're insignificant enough to waste. Take my classmate: she threw a plastic wrapper from the bus, in the first seat, with the monitor and driver seeing it and doing nothing. What the hell, dude? I know you've got problems, but that doesn't give you the right to do that. And the people in charge didn't do anything either — they just took my protest as a rant.
Charles Bukowski was right: "The human race has always disgusted me." But I think it goes deeper — into why humans are liars, shapeshifting emotional fools who just want to be on top. I mean, who doesn't? But at what cost, and how, is what matters.
I see a world where we don't have to choose between comfort and justice. We already have the tech — vertical-axis wind turbines, perovskite solar cells, heat pumps, precision fermentation. We can live well without the extraction and exploitation. But comfort without contribution is just another form of hoarding.
In this world, everyone gives what they can. Not because a boss threatens them, but because the society that sustains you is one you sustain in return. Three days a week of meaningful work — growing food, teaching, healing, building, creating, maintaining. The other four days are yours. No billionaires. No billionaires' lackeys. No one working three jobs to survive while someone else works zero and owns three yachts.
The revolution isn't burning it all down. It's building something better next door, then inviting everyone over. Start with mutual aid networks. Community-owned renewable energy. Tool libraries and seed banks. Worker cooperatives that prove you don't need a CEO to make a good product. Each small proof that we can cooperate without coercion becomes a crack in the old system.
Teach your children that enough is enough. That taking more than you need is stealing from someone who needs it. That every light left on in an empty room is a small violence against the future. That the human project is not to climb over each other, but to build a world where no mother ever has to go to bed hungry so her kid can be fed, how would you feel having to ask your mother why isnt she eating?.
Science today could accomplish incredible things. But we don't need twenty more generations of iPhone. We need one generation that decides: this is enough, and everyone gets it.
Disclaimer: These ideas are offered freely. Take what resonates, question what doesn't, and build your own path.