Jim Murray

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Observation de Jour

Observation de Jour

THE DESTRUCTIVE POWER OF GREED. I go through both Facebook and LinkedIn and every morning and am confronted with the harsh reality that the world is fucked up and getting more fucked up by the day. I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out why this is the case and, to me at least, it boiled down to one simple thing. Greed. There are people who desire control, money and power so badly that they're willing to set the whole world on fire to get it. You never really heard much about these people until social media started to make their influence more transparent. They are the people who start the wars to get the things they need to make themselves richer. They are the people who hoard their wealth and treat the people who work for them like slaves. They are people who buy greedy politicians who, in turn, pass laws that allow them to make even more by paying less taxes. And these are the people who own the media and put up huge smokescreens of distraction, so the mass of the people will look in every direction but theirs to place blame. I've witnessed the mechanics of this greed all my life. I have, along with a lot of other writers I know of, written about it quite extensively. Unfortunately, this greed is much more powerful than all of our combined efforts. Because it is still winning. I spent a good deal of my adult life trying to imagine a world where true equal oppportunity exists. For me, it started with Kennedy but it's gone downhill ever since. Too bad really. Because what the greedy don't realize is that they are bringing about the destruction of their world through the power vacuum they have created. And one of the things about nature is that it abhors a vacuum, and is now starting to correct that. And the greedy will suffer right along with the rest of us. Yl foe
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