Misery: The root cause

I've always grown up wondering about disparity, the haves and the haves not. It has always haunted me. Like most of us, I've heard about destiny, karma, fortune et al decide our life. Not quite convinced, I've tried to question further. Organized religion hardly helps to answer the question on hand for it has more to do with rituals and has limited space for spirituality. Exploring spirituality what I can make of it is that it can make a person a better being but still doesn't help manage the phenomenon of inequality.

It was now time to question the system that drives the world around us. Fascinated by the works and ideas of Karl Marx, what I could make out of the worldly transactions be it social or comercial, money was the driving force, whose possession was critical to survive. It is acceptable till the time money is utilized to survive but the problem arises with its accumulation and its investment to accumulate more. That we see decides our worth! It seems to make what we are as humans. Our success and failure is measured by the yardstick of accumulated wealth. This stimulates a rat race and that too one which doesn't let everyone enter. The game is run by the mighty and the powerful who sell the dream to all the rest that they can be one of them. They name it competition, a scam that justifies annihilation of culture, morality and environment to achieve wealth. That is what is at the core of misery it seems.

The idea of socialism and communism as presented by Marx provides a viable alternative. The world has seen its implementation but not quite, as it worked to a limited extent. For many the idea has been done and dusted. However, I think, with the dearth of ideas to reinvent the system, shrinking profits, growing inequality, destruction of environment, climate change time seems to be nearing for Capitalism to die its own death. Let us make no mistake to think it has already come for we might have to go through a lot of hardships for the times to come.