Day 174: $50,000 Joke on Child Shows Flaw in Capitalism

'I'm horrible!' Boy, 8, sobs after his mom convinces him he'd accidentally bought a Ford Mustang while playing with her iPad 

Full article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2256148/Boy-8-freaks-mom-convinces-hed-accidentally-bought-Ford-Mustang-eBay.html 

 

When Paula Papen caught her eight-year-old son playing around on eBay on her iPad, she concocted one way of making sure he took care of grown ups' toys.

With her camera rolling, the mother from Hot Springs, South Dakota convinced her son Kenyon that he had accidentally spent $50,000 on a Ford Mustang that could not be returned.
But while she may have wanted to teach him a lesson, she cannot have predicted the youngster's emotional response.

A video of the boy sobbing - before realising it was just a joke - has now become an internet hit, with hundreds laughing along with the Papens, while others have lambasted the prank as cruel.
After seeing that he had searched for the vehicle on eBay, Mrs Papen switched on her camera and asked her son why he had made the lavish purchase. 

'I did? Oh can we cancel it? How?' Kenyon responds, jumping up from his seat.
When she tells him that the purchase is final, he breaks down in tears.
'Oh no, I'm horrible,' he wails. 'We'll have to sell everything. I'm horrible!'

What’s not even questioned is why it is that a child would react this way to being told he’d accidently bought a $50,000 non-returnable purchase on ebay. When we know that if this actually happened, for most families it would be devastating. Most people do not have $50,000 to lose. Children are not oblivious to the financial situation of the family. I grew up in a family that was not well off, we could afford what we needed and not much beyond that. Money was always an issue, we were always on a tight budget. If thought I had done something to cost our family $50,000, I probably would have gone into the same reaction, extreme guilt for the misfortune that I’ve brought upon my family. Yet we've just accepted this as a part of life that nobody even questions why survival isn't a basic right, and that we really shouldn't be living in fear of whether or not we'll be able to survive or have the money to get the things we need or that make life effective and enjoyable.

How is it that we’ve let our survival be such a fickle thing, that things like this actually do happen all the time, mistakes are made and people lose money and suffer for it. If you look at our economic system at large, this is what we’re actually doing to many beings within the current system. To all the beings that aren’t being effectively supported in the current system. They are losing out because of our mistake of not ensuring that our system is effectively providing everyone with their basic needs.

See what even a child understands is that money is required to live, and if you don’t have it, you suffer. Yet we as adults, seem to have missed that point, because we allow billions to live in lack, even though we know that this means suffering. Suffering which can be prevented by simply ensuring that everyone is supported effectively in the first place. The fear should not even exist that one might lose their right to survive by losing money, as whether or not someone has money does not change whether or not they need the basic necessities to survive.

Whether or not you have money, you need a house, you need food and water, you need proper healthcare, proper education. Thus there is no reason to ensure that everyone has enough money to get what they need. And to not ensure that everyone has enough money to get what they need is to allow them to suffer. Which is just stupid, and pointlessly cruel. Obviously, no one wants to be in a position where you don’t have access to that which you need. No one would trade places with a starving person, so why do we allow starvation to even exist?

Capitalism as an economic system has made life better for some yet while disregarding the majority of the earth’s population and putting them into poverty. It’s time for Capitalism to be corrected to function according to its own principles to make it is a system that actually works for everyone. Where one does not have to fear for survival. No child should have to fear that their family may have to suffer for not having money. There is no reason for anyone to suffer, when we live in a world of plenty when we use the earth’s resources in a sustainable and responsible way. Children should not have to go through the fear of financial instability and fear of surviving. It shows that we humans have not yet effectively sorted ourselves out and sorted out our economic system so that it is functioning effectively.

If you take for example how the human body itself functions, where the blood which is like the life force of the body, is distributed to every part of the body and all the cells to provide nourishment to all parts of the body that make up the whole, and compare this to money as the life force that moves in the world system to provide nourishment as the distribution of resources, which is, unlike how the body does with blood, not being effectively distributed to everyone.

Featured Artwork by Marlen Vargas Del Razo

Thus the correction of Capitalism has begun within the initiative Equal Money Capitalism, to correct Capitalism to stand according to its own principles to make it a system that works for everyone. So that no one has to fear for their survival. I mean, if a system is really working effectively, then there would not be such extensive fear of survival, that a child would think they have brought suffering to their family through a simple mistake. And the fact that it does happen where people make mistakes and end up losing money and suffering for it, shows that we have allowed things to get out of hand where profit has been given more value than life, and thus why life is being abused in every way possible for the sake of profits.


To read more about Equal Money Capitalism, follow the Economist’s Journey to Life blogs:
Day 162: EQUAL MONEY CAPITALISM - The Way Forward
Day 163: Equal Money Capitalism - Redefining Profit
Day 164: Equal Money Capitalism - Preparing the Road for Change
Day 165: Equal Profit Share and Equal Money Capitalism
And more to come..

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• The consequences of humans existing in bubbles is separation from life/earth.
• Day 82: Parent/child relationship dynamics - part 1

Day 137: The Copyright Scam Revisited: Self Forgiveness

In this post, we’re revisiting the earlier post Day 132: Does Copyright Make Sense? Or Just Cents? where I wrote about Copyright, if you haven’t yet read that post, suggest to do so to have context on the following Self Forgiveness statements.

Also for context into how it is we’ve become enslaved into the current system, suggest to watch the documentary Human Resources: Social Engineering in the 20th Century

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not see, realize and understand that the human doesn’t require profit/making money as motivation to create or do things, and within this to believe that the current system apparently shows that the human is dependent on/requires incentive to work, when what it is actually showing is that when you withhold the resources that one needs to survive, you can convince them to work to get the money to buy their survival, and thus what the current system is actually showing us is that physical beings with physical requirements can be enslaved by deliberately withholding one’s requirements from them.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not question the concept of ‘copyright’ and to believe that it makes sense to have a law where one is given the right to collect profits for themselves, within this not realizing how the starting point is not about doing what is best for all life, but is about personal gain in spite of everyone else, and thus I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that in supporting a concept like ‘copyright’ I’m supporting greed and self interest in fact, as copyright serves to give profit to some and keep it from others.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not see that I liked the idea of copyright because I thought – ‘hey, if I make something someday, I would like to have the profits all to myself’ – and thus within this, I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not see how I am in fact responsible for a society which is based in self interest and greed, because I was living it myself in my very starting point. Within this, not considering at all, the billions who will never be in a position to make produce something to be copyrighted and thus it’s not an opportunity that is available to all, and therefore copyright is obviously no ‘just’ thing, as it cannot apply to everyone, in fact most cannot/will not benefit from copyright law, and thus it is to serve only a few individuals in this world to make profits off all the rest. 

And, within that, I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not see how by supporting a concept/idea/law like copyright, that I was in fact compromising myself and supporting abuse of myself by not ensuring that what I was supporting was something that could be applied by all, which would ensure that no matter what situation I find myself in , I would be supported and not abused, as I hadn’t considered that the law of copyright creates two sides, one of winners and one of losers, and that the winner side is very very small, and thus one has a very high chance of being on the losing side.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not see, realize and understand how when I support ideas like copyright because I am hoping to be one of the few winners – that I am simultaneously creating the losing side, and within this not realizing the solution of simply not creating sides in the first place, but creating a world where everyone is a winner which would automatically make me a winner, and I would not have to take a gamble in the casino system of Capitalism in the ‘hopes’ of ‘making it’, because it would be so in the first place.

Thus - I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not see, realize and understand that if a system has things like ‘copyright law’ and ‘lotteries’ and get ‘rich quick schemes’, and so many ways that give one the hope that just maybe they can get lucky and make out and have their survival and quality of life secured, that this indicates that our economic system is a total and complete massive failure, as there should be no hoping for some lucky jackpot that for most will never ever come, but everyone should be effectively supported and not have to spend a lifetime ‘hoping’ in the casino system of Capitalism, but everyone should have the best life possible.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that all beings can be and should be taken care of and effectively supported, because I accepted the system as it was presented as how it must be, not realizing that we are the ones that decide how it is, and that this means that we are the ones that decide to have a casino system where we have to hope and gamble our lives away while a few make a profit and live in a life of luxury, and thus we are the ones that can change this and implement an Equal Money System where everyone can have the best life possible, as that is how it should always have been.

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Day 29 – The ‘Invisible Hand’ Revealed

For context watch Let’s Make Money.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not even have a clue how much effort and labor goes into producing the items that I buy conveniently off the store shelf.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not consider what all must be required to take place for the products I buy from the store to get to the onto shelf, from the beginning of the process as the unrefined resources of the earth to the finished product.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not consider the effort involved in creating and producing money as paper and coin, and that thus in the current system, money costs money to make, and thus physical money comes into existence as debt.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize the extent of the deception that takes place within what we call the ‘economy’ but what could rather be called a system of enslavement in which the majority of the population is enslaved to a minority for the purpose of greed and profit, in disregard of life.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that ‘globalization’ is a good thing because it ‘lowers costs’ and ‘keeps inflation under control’, when ‘‘inflation’ does not need to exist in the first place, and ‘cost’ within the current system is defined as a monetary value and not relevant to the actual cost as everything that it takes to create and distribute a product in terms of, for example, resources consumed, labor required, and the environmental impact, but only in terms of the monetary cost to the company in whatever part of the manufacturing process that company handle – and thus such a concept as ‘globalization’ only has relevance in the current capitalist system which is based on insanity as greed and profit and taking advantage of your fellow man which create an environment of competition and war, and would have no relevance within a system which functions to effectively support life, as there would be no need to compete for financial security, as there is no one to financially secure ourselves against but ourselves, and thus if we secure ourselves and each other, one and equal, there is no complex schemes necessary for countries to try to develop business, but rather the point will be to develop expression of ourselves as who we are here, within unlimited expansion of each individual and thus as humanity as a whole.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that the concepts which the current economic system is based on are obviously flawed, as evidenced by the billions in poverty who are not being effectively supported by the system, when we live in a world of plenty, where there is enough resources to provide for all.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that an investor is doing a job to secure a living, and thus their starting point is to secure their living, regardless of what the consequence of what they do in the world in the monetary system is. Thus-

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not consider that within the current system we are busy doing jobs to secure a living regardless of what the consequence of what we do is having on ourselves and the world – within over use of the earth’s resources, ineffective distribution of the earth’s resources, abuse to our human physical bodies, abuse to nature, the animals and our environment, as within the current capitalist system which makes us have to compete for our survival and well-being, our fist priority must be our own financial security, and we are not free to change what we do to that which supports life, as we’re trapped within the survival game of the current system.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to accept a society where our only responsibility is to look out for our own survival, where we do not consider what effects what we do has on ourselves and the world as nature, the animals and the environment.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to allow markets to become more than simply points that facilitate the distribution of goods, and allowed the market to sprout an ‘invisible hand’ which takes from many and only gives to a few.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to allow an ‘invisible hand’ to dictate who gets and who does not in this current system.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to allow the hand to be ‘invisible’ and did not seek out the source of this hand that is allowing more than half the world’s population to suffer in poverty.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe in fairy tales like Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Invisible Hand.

I commit myself to consider what effects what we do has on ourselves and the world as nature, the animals and the environment, so that I can make decisions wherever and whenever I am able that are best for all life.

I commit myself to establishing a system in which we will be able to always make decisions that will lead to what is best for all life, where our focus and primary goal is not to survive because that will be guaranteed, and we will thus be unbound from the chains of the current inequality based system, and able to freely move ourselves to create this world into a heaven on earth for all beings.

I commit myself to not believing in fairytales such as the ‘Invisible Hand’ and realizing that the ‘invisible hand’ is all OUR hands, as we allow the current system and are accepting the support of it, thus allowing it to even exist, without ensuring that it is actually supporting everyone, actually supporting us all as humanity and all life that is here altogether within this one ecosystem.

I commit myself to realizing that I am the ‘Invisible Hand’ and thus I take action and move myself to become a Visible presence here and use my Hand that I’ve been Dealt in this system where I am financially supported, to make a new Deal, where no one is allowed to suffer, where the suffering are not made to be Invisible to the Elite that bites the Hand the feed them.

Day 19 - What is the Solution to Fear?

For context read: Day 18 - What is Fear?

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not consider that that which I fear in the world is my own creation, as I have accepted and allowed it to exist, and thus I am actually fearing myself, as what I have accepted and allowed, and not taken responsibility to find and implement solutions so that such situation that I fear no longer exists.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to fear becoming a bum living on the street.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to accept a society and economic system in which it is even possible to become a bum on the street.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not ensure that we have an economic system which actually guarantees that all are supported to have adequate food, shelter, water, healthcare, all the things that one needs to live and thrive, and then the fear of becoming a bum on the street would not exist, as the situation of becoming a bum on the street would not exist.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to fear going to jail.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to accept a society in which going to jail exists as a thing to be feared, rather than considering how and why jails exist and what is the solution to be walked, so that such a situation does not exist as it does.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to consider that jail exists as the manifestation of judgment and punishment, wherein it is the world manifestation reflection of how we accept and allow ourselves to judge and punish ourselves, instead of assisting and supporting ourselves to change ourselves into beings that can coexist here with all other beings and do no harm.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that most people who go to jail is for theft which is due to the inequality of the current economic system, and that unless the main underlying cause of people being driven to theft is stopped, which is the inequality of the system, then there will continue to be people who commit theft, and thus by accepting and allowing an economic system that creates inequality, I am accepting and allowing those who are driven to commit theft and are put in jail.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that the current corrections system is not designed to be actually effective at rehabilitating human beings, but rather to just put them away out of society and out of the way of business and profit, one and equal with the starting point of the current economic system which we have accepted and allowed to place profit before life.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to fear not having money.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that I fear not having money because in the current system money is security and you are not guaranteed enough money to have a dignified life, and thus the possibility exists that you may not have enough money, and then the quality of your life will decrease, and if you have no financial support whatsoever to have access to your needs you die like thousands do everyday.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to accept an economic system in which a dignified life is not guaranteed and life is a gamble where one's life literally 'hangs in the balance', and one have to go through unnecessary suffering if one does not have effective financial support.

I commit myself to identifying the fears that exist within myself and humanity, and looking at how have I taken for granted that that such a condition exists, and seeing how do we create/accept/allow such condition, within the understanding that we as humanity create what is here, thus once we realize how we create such a situation, we then have the solution to stop creating it.

I commit myself to taking self responsibility to face our fears as the situations of abuse that we've created, accepted and allowed to exist, and to implement solutions so that such a situation is no longer created to exist in the world.

I commit myself to realizing that we as humanity create the very situations that we fear, and thus we are actually fearing ourselves as our own creations, which is ridiculous, when the solution to our fears is thus to realize that we are creating them, discover how we are creating them, and stop creating them.

I commit myself to realizing that this world is the manifestation of what we accept and allow and thus when we allow ourselves to participate in fears without investigating them, we are trapping ourselves into a never-ending cycle of our own fear through which we limit ourselves and the whole world, as by accepting such fears to exist, we are accepting and allowing the conditions that we fear, to exist, instead of facing that which we fear and correcting our application to no longer manifest situations of abuse to be feared.