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This accursed system in which we live, supported by the discretionary issuance of currency by central authorities, is responsible for a fifth of the world population holding 80% of the total wealth, for children being exploited to make clothes and then sold for fortunes in European stores, or to man bags of cocoa beans in Africa to later sell artisanal chocolates at incredible prices in Swiss candy stores, is curiously based on two pillars that support it: "democracy" and "meritocracy".
Both constitute two fallacious concepts that are not believed even by those who profess them and declaim in long political dissertations from the rostrum for the applauders. Unfortunately, if those of us who deeply believe in blockchain technology and distributed systems do not do something, we must add a third to these two fallacies called DAOcracy.
Let's go in parts.
The so-called “democracy” works in the following way. Corporations and international organizations (created and funded by corporations), which are the ones that really govern the planet, divide the planet into regions, and within them, into countries. In each country, there are "observers-informers" who know the candidates who can run to compete in an election. They suggest the one that is closest to the ideas that suit the general corporate plan for the period considered (note that the candidate can be a populist, leftist, rightist, center, or whatever since they only have to meet the requirement that he/she will let the corporate system operate without problems). Once the candidate who must win and his/her staunch opponent has been detected, significant sums are allocated (created by the banks and guaranteed by the central banks) to show the candidate who must win as the man or woman who will save the country, and a sum far superior to show the opponent as the most corrupt of the pirates that devastated the Caribbean seas. The mass media, at that time, in the hands of the corporations, inform and misinform the herd following the plan and the budget. When the election comes, the one the corporations wanted to win wins. And people believe that they voted freely.
They call this democracy.
I don't think even Groucho Marx could have imagined it.
But it should not be forgotten that the term "democracy" was created in a slave-owning Greece in which only the elites voted. So it is perfectly consistent to give this name to this farce. Democracy was created by the Athenians in the 5th century BC, it appears in the work of the philosopher Plato, The Republic, where he defines it as the "government of the people". In the system established by these cartoon characters, decisions were made in citizen assemblies, excluding women, foreigners, and slaves. As can be seen, a truly transparent and egalitarian system.
Then comes the “Meritocracy”. Meritocracy is simply that the rich, their heirs, and their employees achieve "financial success" while looking down on those who do not have it because "they do not try hard enough." That is, the rich despise his/her maid since she cannot achieve financial success because she does not try hard enough. “Developed” countries look down on “third world” countries because these countries are inhabited by lazy people who don't try hard enough. A landowner despises his/her workers because they cannot get out of their condition of extreme poverty because they do not try hard enough. In general terms, the merit goes to those who have the most, while those who have the least are excluded for being useless bums who don't try hard enough. This is what is taught in the elite universities, from which the gears that will feed the capitalist corporate machine graduate, so that nothing changes and humanity "progresses."
In this case, I think Buster Keaton could not have imagined a logic like this for his great movies.
Sadly, this meritocracy thing reminds me of “Boxer”, the horse from George Orwell's Animal Farm, who spent his life saying “I will try harder!”, and worked for the regime trying harder every day, until he was betrayed by that regime and was sent to the slaughterhouse in exchange for a barrel of whiskey for the pigs in charge of the government.
As little as these monstrosities are analyzed, logic indicates that we are facing a system in which only corporations and employees of international organizations can win. Obsessed with the "American dream", the world's middle classes work hard to get their Ferrari or their yacht.
I will continue.
Thank you for reading! Decentralize yourselves as much as you can, and much more! Work for yourselves, not for others. When you work for someone else, they pay you what YOUR POSITION is worth, when you work for yourself, they pay you what YOU are worth. No one achieves financial independence by working as an employee. Live long and prosper!
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