We are today living in an era of mass-production. It’s very rare, actually it’s almost unheard of, for an individual to consume food they have made themselves on their own property. It’s slightly more likely that they will have bought the food locally. Far more probable is that they’ve bought the food from a supermarket, who have purchased from wholesalers, who have bought from farmers. Those running a Houston contract warehouse or making Houston fulfillmentof orders may have warehouses chock full of all manner of items, all ready to be moved along to the next person on the hierarchy, will be getting employment from this kind of system, and it’s what helps our society move. But the truth is that doing things this way means many people get paid simply for being on top, and not creating anything of their own, it’s for this reason that the global financial crisis has occurred.

This manner of creating things comes from the way any large economic system works. Once enough people are involved in a business enterprise, someone must be placed at the top, in order to decide who will do what, sounds logical enough at this point. So this person will need to have something in them that means they’re going to be the one that gets them put in this position. Now, we’d hope it might be their skill in a given area, or their abilities to delegate duties, but the truth is that this person may be simply the person who can get others to like him, who has the most money, or is perceived to be the most influential. This person will now be in a place of power, although they are not best suited to do this job out of all the people in the group. Naturally, since they would like to keep their place at the top, they’ll try and manipulate the way the system works so that they appear to still be the right choice.

This is the fashion in which many groups tend to work, from social groups, to work environments to dictatorships to democracies. To take the role of US President as an example, it’s clear that the person who gets into this place is very rarely the person who can most properly care of the country. While George Bush Jr. is an obvious example of this, Obama is an equally interesting proof of this outlook. While he was able to inspire hope and feelings of patriotism within America, and was able to convince many of his ability to change the way politics works in the US, this has been shown to be just a cover, as his reluctance to create meaningful change in relation to war, health care and the environment makes clear.

It’s only through acknowledging that this is the way things happen that we can start to critique and take down this corrupt system. A true democracy, in which people can take control of their lives at a fundamental level, is the only sustainable way to guarantee true freedom for the people of any country.