This is how we get our oil. This is how we get our commodities in general. Human trafficking and slavery is why we in our Western oligarchical aristocratic nations can enjoy such a luxurious quality of life with abundant material goods that we continuously throw away before going to Wal-Mart to get another $3 shirt, marveling at the cheapness. Our quality of life exists because of this type of slavery that is largely hidden from us. I have a friend who's in his early 20s and is making over $200k a year as an oil-futures trader in the Financial District in Manhattan. And I keep asking myself, what in the world gives him the right to temporarily own, via setting and owning the contract on the price, of great quantities of oil - he had absolutely nothing to do with its creation and has never even seen it, yet he gets to profit in the hundreds of thousands of U.S. dollars off of it? What is that? People are enslaved and people die to make that oil, yet some rich white boy in New York can claim that through his "merit" he is making a six figure salary off of it?
I can't. I get so angry when I think about this, because so few people are willing to acknowledge that nothing is a meritocracy, and that much of our items, our goods, and our financial services and industry is little more than a trade in blood money.
Yea I just wrote a ton, I can't help it, I'm super passionate on this topic.
This is how we get our oil. This is how we get our commodities in general. Human trafficking and slavery is why we in our Western oligarchical aristocratic nations can enjoy such a luxurious quality of life with abundant material goods that we continuously throw away before going to Wal-Mart to get another $3 shirt, marveling at the cheapness. Our quality of life exists because of this type of slavery that is largely hidden from us. I have a friend who's in his early 20s and is making over $200k a year as an oil-futures trader in the Financial District in Manhattan. And I keep asking myself, what in the world gives him the right to temporarily own, via setting and owning the contract on the price, of great quantities of oil - he had absolutely nothing to do with its creation and has never even seen it, yet he gets to profit in the hundreds of thousands of U.S. dollars off of it? What is that? People are enslaved and people die to make that oil, yet some rich white boy in New York can claim that through his "merit" he is making a six figure salary off of it?
I can't. I get so angry when I think about this, because so few people are willing to acknowledge that nothing is a meritocracy, and that much of our items, our goods, and our financial services and industry is little more than a trade in blood money.
Yea I just wrote a ton, I can't help it, I'm super passionate on this topic.
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