For many years now, Canadians have been apathetic to the events around them. Apathetic towards privatized business, monopolistic business, and even to the largest monopoly ever created, the Government. For years, Canadians have elected Prime Ministers and their parties based on the idea that they won't make the same mistakes as the last one. Well, here's a wakeup call. They will.
In the past Twenty years, both the Conservative and Liberal parties of Canada have been found guilty of abusing tax-payer's money. The Liberals were discovered to have taken bonuses in their pay checks, instead of using tax-payer money towards the programs they were trying to implement. The Conservatives planned a G20 conference in Ontario and discussed the budget to be roughly $50 Million. They ended up spending over $1 Billion of Canadian tax-payer money. Just for the record, that's over 20 times the original budget the Conservatives set and a $950 Million difference. It seems that every time we want a different political party in power, they abuse their power. In reality, there is very little difference between the Conservatives and Liberals; they are even very similar on the political spectrum, considering they are supposed to be opposing wings.
Why haven't we argued about any of this happening? Why haven't we changed the way we want the Government to operate? Why hasn't this infrastructure changed?
No one wants change. No one sees the benefit to change. The best example for this is implementing higher taxes. No one wants to pay higher taxes; they don't see the good in doing so. The average person doesn't realize that the money they invest in a good government would be returned to them tenfold. In left wing parties, they strive to better the lives of everyone, make individuals equals. A well known way to do this is to promote programs that help workers, not businesses. Unions have been around in Canada for years, but they aren't effective in helping the average person. It takes too much time to change policies through Unions, too many arguments about money. The change we need is in a socialist society.
A socialist economy is similar to that of a communist economy. Now that's a scary word right? Communism. No one likes communism. There is so much propaganda on how if someone has communist views, they are a bad person, but they're not. That's just propaganda, nothing more. Communism in history has been seen to have negative tendencies; the Governments abuse their power and enslave their people. That's how the Western Philosophy is taught to young children; Communism is bad, Capitalism is good! Well, all of this needs to change. Socialist economies develop self-governance of the business sectors by abolishing the hierarchy of power based on your job. Instead, educated members of the system develop strategies to enhance and progress the development of their work. There are no bosses, only more minds to bounce ideas off of. There is no overtime, work is divided evenly to each employee and production is done in a planned order so to not overproduce. All in all, the ideal socialist economy would accurately project an estimate of the resources needed for a yearly bases and delegate accordingly. There could be many job openings for economists.
The biggest downfall to our society is our economy. It's what makes life possible in our world, but it also makes life not worth living. There's a story about a fisherman who meets a businessman vacationing in his small coastal habitat. The Businessman watches the fisherman for a week. The Fisherman would fish for an hour every day, taking his little boat and net and catching only ten fish. The Businessman, seeing this, approaches the fisherman and asks him why he only catches ten fish a day. The fisherman explains that he catches two for his family and trades the other eight for food and supplies his family needs. The Businessman, seeing the opportunity, begins to tell him the possibilities of expansion. If the fisherman caught ten fish an hour, he could fish for eight hours a day and catch eighty fish. He could do this until he bought a bigger boat, and catch more fish.
The Fisherman asked the Businessman what he would do next. He replied by describing the Fisherman with a fleet of boats, operating his own Fishing company. Again the Fisherman asked the Businessman what he would do next. He replied by suggesting that the Fisherman could move to America and conduct his business from an office building, making boatloads of cash. The Fisherman, thinking about this, asks the Businessman what he would do next. The Businessman exclaimed that the only possibility would be to sell his business and live off of the money, move back to his homeland and have an easy life; fishing for his family and relaxing on the beach. The Fisherman replied by telling the Businessman that that is what he is doing already, why is there a need to do all that work only to come back to the peaceful life he already lives?
This story is so true in how our world works. The idea that society has imposed on us is that money fixes everything. We can all have that big T.V, big house, big vehicle, and everything else that makes us happy. Money gives us the pleasures that we want. The only question that we forgot to ask, is do we need it? Does having these things make us happy or do they fill a void that's created every time we strive to make more money.
Capitalism has had its turn in our economy. Karl Marx even explained that it would be its own downfall and that Socialism would take its place. It can even be shown in our history. The only way that a civilization has ever been able to advance is with teamwork. Humans started hunting and gathering together. They built farms and grew crops together. They even built tools together to make their lives more convenient for their living. It was what lay ahead of this that made humanity greedy. They developed a monetary system where people could trade goods. This idea expanded so rapidly, everyone thought they could do better for implementing it. Instead, it made life harder. The rich became richer, the poorer became poorer. Everything that didn't help stimulate the economy in favour of capitalism was suppressed.
Section one of this series was supposed to show you the change I wanted to see in Canadian society. The upcoming election is vital for our survival and timing is key in this. We can either elect another Government that won't change the world we live in, or we can change our Government into something that has the potential to be better. In truth, it doesn't matter who you vote for, or what you vote for. In the apathetic society that we live in, the fact that you're voting is all that really matters. This is the conclusion to Part one of this series. I hope it has inspired you to think about what needs to change in your lives, what you value most about our country, and what type of Government you want to implement in this rebirth.
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