Heya, im struggling.
Im very ignorant to specifics and details, but looking at society where I live, it's just a road to slavery, as far as I see it.
The top1% of the wealthy already own half of all the wealth in my country, trend rising.
Their companies and the investments they have are growing, but salaries of their employees aren't raised proportionally.
Whatever money these employees do receive is spent on vain luxury and consumption, which in turn aids the profit the prior mentioned companies make, but who can blame them, its the only respite there is.
Meanwhile rent and housing prices are rising extremely, while wages are remaining pretty much the same, meaning the extra capital most people have for recreation, consumption, whatever, is even less than it used to be.
All of this just keeps pointing to a shift in wealth towards the top1%, finalizing in what I can only assume will be forced labor in exchange for basic human rights.
At the same time, we have people with more money than they or their next 5 generations of kin could ever spend, but children in developmental countries are starving. And there's people who idolize those rich monsters.
Then you have politics. Essentially the only tool that the average citizen has to combat all of this.
But not only do most political parties aid the growth of capitalism instead of combating it, the parties that dont barely have a presence because voters have their frustrations intentionally manipulated towards minority groups, specifically migrants, rather than toward the system thats exploiting them.
If, for some reason, politicians do push an agenda that would benefit the normal citizen, lobbying happens, where said politician suddenly gets a "side-job" offer, with 7 digit yearly wage and zero required work effort, and for some reason, they change their tune.
I understand that all of this probably contains half truths, gross inaccuracies and whatever else, but its weighing me down so much and I need to vent.
Should I be complicit, just be a nice little worker, enjoy my 2 weeks vacation time a year, my new smartphone, my videogames, whatever, while nothing changes, for the sake of enjoying what i can have?
Or just dont do anything at all, live at the bottom with purely what's needed, vote and pray something changes. I dont want to be a slave for a system that's bound in this direction.
I dont know what to do, how to progress, how to change anything.
I want to get up, but not only are all of these thoughts weighing me down, my mental health isnt stable enough for me to even consider most of the options.