DWQA QuestionsCategory: Problems in SocietyThe tendency for wealth and the ownership of resources to concentrate in fewer and fewer hands under laissez-faire capitalism presents perhaps the same concern that communism does—slavery of the worker and lower classes of society by a tiny elite class of individuals. Instead of the government, the company is the fully controlling entity. The excesses of company housing and the infamous company store are legion, and one of the realities that contributed to the popularity of Marxism. What is Creator’s perspective on the dangers of concentrated wealth?
Nicola Staff asked 3 years ago
We see this again as a rather simplistic notion akin to the belief, "Money is the root of all evil." The evil is not concentration of wealth per se, it is the concentration of power that leads to wealth accumulation that is the root of evil. Evil hierarchies create evil consequences whether that is a socialist system or a capitalist system one is observing. The whole world is corrupt and fewer and fewer people within it remain uncorrupted. Your freedoms are dwindling. At the same time, your problems are increasing. This is a downward spiral leading to further chaos and destruction. The world is run much like a gang of thieves who occasionally kill one another to gain an advantage. If that scheme does not moderate, eventually all will perish. People need one another in order to deal with the challenges of a physical environment, that is why it is such a superb learning environment and testing ground for human progress. If you can succeed and prevail and establish a society in divine alignment, you will be able to handle anything the future might throw at you. At the moment, that is highly in doubt because with competition at every level of society there is increasing frustration, discord, harm being done to one another, and tremendous suffering with so many people being left behind. In a world with a history of tremendous natural disasters happening at fairly regular intervals, you would think by this time society would have robust mechanisms for helping the downtrodden and the needy who are thrust into immediate poverty and homelessness by such events. Given that all are potentially in harm’s way, all can potentially benefit from a mutual sharing of resources so that people will never be left in want of basic necessities such as food, clothing, and shelter. The fact this does not happen is because the world is governed by corrupted individuals who are working from the playbook of the interlopers to divide and conquer, use power and control that is maintained through fear and the application of force. This always hardens hearts and develops cynicism and selfish and self-serving perspectives to put oneself first no matter what. The sad reality is, all of this is an orchestration and being inflicted on humans by the interlopers when, in fact, it is preventable and avoidable through humans taking action to deal with their overseers. The first step is gaining a clear perspective of the true nature of reality, where the problems lie, but also why there are problems to begin with—that will lead to the answers you need.