I’m fully aware that injustice has always been around, but we- modern humans (humans with brains and empathy) know better than Hyenas and better than our ancestors. We outlawed killing sports and killing children becauze we realized that it’s inhumane to do those things because we have the ability to think deeply and feel empathy. However, the people who outlawed those things are the same people who think it’s okay to let those people who don’t have a source of income starve just because they can’t pay, and then imprison them when they steal so they can feed themselves and their families; as though money is- again- more important than a person’s ability to sustain themselves. How is a life where we either have to follow the rules to game that most of us had no hand in creating or starve, any  different from a life in which rich people just go around shooting regular working people point blank in the skull in front of their families because they refused to bow down to them? Personally, I’d rather someone shoot me than starve at the hands of a predatory system that now acts as a middleman between the predatory elite- who, in the past, would kill/imprison those who didn’t follow their rules- and the people who rely on playing THEIR game in order to survive; we might as well cut out the middleman- at least that way we’d all have SOME level of dignity. Progress IS important to me, but I don’t think that what we’ve achieved is progress if all we’ve done was created a system that INDIRECTLY harms people on behalf of those who used to do it directly when their followers didn’t obey them. As  organisms who are capable of rational thought, it shouldn’t be hard for us, as a collective, to see that the world isn’t OUR oysters- but rather that we’re being used as oysters ourselves. We create full pearls and are proud of said pearls, but in working for someone, those pearls are taken from us, and we can’t take full credit for being the one to create that whole pearl; we’re given small bits of each pearl we create for being an “asset to the company” we had no choice but to offer our pearls to; then we get back maybe a small fraction of each of our pearls and are expected to be happy with that and just accept that “life just isn’t fair” or that you should “make the best of what you have” when we can have more without being selfish. Why is it that when large companies fire groups of 20+ people to save money, or pay people sh*t wages they’re seen as economical, or smart business people, but when people complain that they don’t have enough to survive, they’re seen as selfish? I feel like enough people share these grievances, but are too afraid to put their voices out there in fear of being labeled too radical, or selfish, or entitled. But working class people shouldn’t be seen as selfish just because they want more than what they’re getting from this parasite we’ve created that is the economy. If we really WERE a progressive society, we’d see capitalism as the injustice that it is. Injustice may be part of nature, but humans have no problem subverting aspects of nature so that their lives can be easier, why not try and subvert this sh*tty notion of social darwinism?