Society is a prison.

[Darkover]

Ever since I was young I hated attending school. It was a challenge to pay attention and feel interested in anything.

We live in a world wich revolves around money and power, and theese are both key components in our way of distracting ourselves from the truth about society. We've developed a sort of schizofrenia where we're both the prisoner and the prisoner-guard in a prisoner camp. The prisoner in us ponders about another life, "surely there must be more to life than the cycle of education, work and reproducing", but the prisoner-guard hinder us from ever taking that one step out of the camp. The guard takes pride what he've built up over the years, and how "well" it's going, and therefore won't let the prisoner leave.

This makes us incapable of ever leaving the camp.

The simple act of just existing on this planet costs money. This alone is proof that we live on a prison planet. You need money just to have access to basic things like food, water and shelter. And everytime you get paid, the powers that be take some of that money (taxes) and and if you buy something, even property, they take some of that money too.

And you have no say about what they do with it, so some of your money ends up contributing to war and the killing of other human beings, and you have no choice over that. And if you wake up to how much of a prison all of this is, you can't even leave. If you try to "leave" this prison and you fail, they lock you up in a mental institution.

To live on this prison planet you basically have to sell your soul so you can afford to buy food to feed your body, which is basically a prison in itself, and if you question the idea of work your fellow prisoners call you lazy for not wanting to contribute to the system imprisoning them. And If you question any of the "official" narratives about what's going on in the world, they call you crazy.

 

[Praestat_Mori]

That's a prison humans created for themselves in the past 10000 years since "money" was invented and we are all trapped in it.

 

[MeltingBrain]

But for Resources like food, shelter, water to be created, humans have to work ,and they only do so when they are materially incentivized . That's the whole Funda of capitalism which by far has been the most successful economic model in my opinion. Poor people in capitalistic countries do much better than poor people in socialist/communist countries . That is not to say that you have no point . As society gets wealthier and tech keeps advancing we should always check if we can set aside some resources for those left behind .

The tax money being used for wars and other nefarious activities is true but what's the alternate?