The winners play Game X or Y because they dominate it so well, and all others have to fall into place then, too. They don’t have a choice unless they build thick walls.
The freedom to do anything anyone in the whole wide world wants for themselves got captured by selfish behaviors that recognized that Game X or Y gave their group the most freedom and benefits, while subsequently restricting the freedoms others have.
Ultimately, the world is then run by the parasites of this world, to rephrase you, and not by the best animals that live in balance with the world.
- The worst of the world is actually experienced also at the home of the winner because its losers get to share the least. Foreigners invest in the US, for instance, and benefit from the lower standards for workers. That means that more can be taken home to their nation than when they are investing that at home in their nation.
The selfish game is propagated this way.
It is easy to show. I created this graph in 2006 based on data of nationmaster.com and other sources.
If we make the US either the richest or one of the richest nations in the world, then we can see how the bottom 10% gets almost nothing of that wealth. Its 1.75 percent of all wealth in the nation is not impressive to use a euphemism. See how the nations in columns 2, 4 and 5 are all found above the US level in column 1, showing that systems do have impacts on people as, for instance, shown for the ones at the bottom of society.
When the bottom 10% votes in our US voting system, then they end up with zero representation. Neither party delivers for them, except for sometimes out of the goodness of their hearts. The bottom 10% does not have people standing up for them as their actual representatives. They have no voice in our democracy. Up to 49.9% of the voters can end up going home empty-handed, not represented by their choice, their desires, their needs.
The bottom 10% need not vote; the outcome will be the same whether they do or not.
Thank you for a good run, John.
