Money sucks

A post of mine from another thread:

Then there's a big one that not a lot of people talk about... money. When you're on the lower end of that spectrum that's a kind of oppression too, because there are no institutions to help you get out of that situation. In fact most institutions are built to keep you down in that regard because it benefits them.

Do you think credit cards and student loans want you to pay them off? No. They want you to keep paying for as long as possible! Do you think a bank wants to give you a loan so you can start your own business? No. They don't want to take a risk that you wont be able to pay it off. Do you think insurance wants to pay off a claim? No. They want you to pay them, for nothing, for as long as possible, without them ever having to pay out for anything ever. That's their definition of a "good customer".

For the most part we live out our lives, obey the laws, pay out our bills, and go to work at a job that barely keep us afloat. If we're lucky we get to go on a vacation once in a blue moon and enjoy an outing with friends once in a while, and that's that.

But the truth is the system wants more lower end middle class and upper end poor class, than people who can pay off their debts, because it keeps them in business. And the insidious part is it's legal and well buy into it. They got us! A legal system of socially accepted oppression. It's like a casino, once in a long while you win one, but mostly the house wins.




Don't get me wrong, I'm a capitalist by nature, I'd love to be rich. I just wish the system wasn't as rigged as it is.