The Problem With Money - Part 1

This morning we woke up to the news that Michael Jackson had passed away. The reaction of many people seems to be that of "good riddance" or "who cares?", but Michael Jackson was a very high profile case of someone that has been chewed up by the record industry, completely screwed over and then spat out.

Many will say that he was very rich, and while this is clearly the case, no amount of money could undo the damage that was inflicted on him as a child. He was a complete basket case, far from normal in both a physical and emotional way. At the end of the day, in my mind Michael Jackson is just one of millions of people who have been exploited in order to make a profit.

We live in a world that allows people to die of starvation. We live in a world that allows people to work menial jobs and be paid 7 times less per day than people earn per hour in Australia on minimum wage. The money system is broken.

It simply sickens me that there aren't daily protests and that people aren't constantly on talk back radio complaining about how little big business cares for humanity. It should simply not be acceptable that people are allowed to be put behind profits. We should take a stand and say enough is enough.

This isn't going to be a long blog, but it will be a topic I will revisit in the future. In the mean time we need to ask the question "How can you allow people to suffer in the name of your own greed?"