Middle Nation Content Talks: Western Misconceptions About The West | Session 3

Assalamu alaikum, everyone. Okay. So, before we start, Okay. So welcome everyone to our third and hopefully last session of the specific content out which are related to Western misconceptions, in general. In the first session, we went over the misconceptions about feminism, gender equality, you know, the Western misogyny, we can call it.

In the second session last week, we focused on the violence, extremism, misconceptions about other you know, calling other societies violent, calling them extremists when the West itself is the most extremist nation or civilization, if we can call it that way, in so many aspects. Right? And we covered most of them. And today, we will be looking at the last portion of these misconceptions. Of course, you know, one can spend days and days just talking about all of the misconceptions, but we try to separate it into these three distinct groups.

And today, we will try to address Western misconceptions about capitalism, about its economic prosperity, or even how they present it as economic superiority to some sense about freedom of speech, about democracy. And, of course, I will maybe try to lessen the talking about democracy and so on because there have been so many content talks about the facade of the democracy, right, or the facade. We have spoken about the corruption of the election process, about the how it's just a show. So we have really addressed the the democratic aspects, how it works in detail in previous sessions. So, of course, we'll try to address it because it's one of the biggest misconceptions, to be honest, related to the West, but we'll try to focus into other areas that we have maybe not spoken that much about before.

So welcome to all my speakers. First of all, welcome to all the listeners. Salaam Alaikum. Happy to have you here. So let's go, inshallah.

First of all, let's just focus on capitalism and economic prosperity. Alright? Because we usually hear how the West, you know, it's basically, again, projecting all of these economic values of free markets, of how business should be done, the World Trade Organization, how trade should be done, all of these different tools that are basically being dominated by The US through the IMF, through the World Trade Organization, through World Bank Group, you know, so many different international organizations that are related to the economic functioning of the global order. And, you know, The US is presenting itself at the forefront of this. Right?

That they are the ones who should be lecturing everyone how it should be done. So the West and, again, when talking about the West, just, you know, in case people have not been here previous sessions, we do not mean, like, a geographic location, but it's more about this mentality, right, this psychological state that they're in. K? And it's being represented, of course, mostly by Western Europe and The United States because they do share similarities in their philosophy, in their worldview, in their approach to world, approach to other civilizations, this Western supremacy. Okay?

So this is what we are trying to address. Because, you know, even in Europe, there are differences between Eastern Europe and Western Europe, etcetera. So just to be clear on this. So, again, the West and this quote, unquote civilization, right, it presents itself as this, like, you know, how to say it, number one, right, in economic prosperity, economic freedom, in freedom of speech, in democracy, And it uses all of these ideals to somehow assert its global superiority, right, or tries to impose its superiority onto others. Right?

But there is the system that we have addressed before that is totally, you know, intertwined with contradictions. Right? And as we will see, inshallah, there are so many examples where, like, there's this poverty and inequality, and it really plays very large parts of the population and the society. And the freedom is usually just in freedom in business and not freedom in the population and these type of,

you know, other civil activities as we can call them. So

let's start. I will try to ask, insha'Allah, my speakers some questions, and then we go on as is usually the case. So I wanted to ask, first of all, how does this Western celebration of capitalism, right, presenting itself in some manner, it really obscures the reality that even so many American states and regions, they even resemble if we try to calculate, you know, GDP and purchasing power parity or even, like, nominal GDPs. It really you can if you take it state by state, you can see that it's, like, comparable to so many third world countries, right, as they call them. There are so vast income inequalities, economic exploitation of laborers, economic exploitation of foreign countries, laborers in foreign countries, their own workers.

So how does how can this be, again, reconciled? Right? This is always my first question. Yeah. Because, you know, they're presenting themselves in some manner while the reality if one tries to look at the statistics and at the data and and really at the reality itself, it's complete opposite of what they're presenting themselves as.

Right? So let us maybe address some of these manifestations of the inequalities of the exploitation and so on. So if you have any ideas, my dear listeners, you know, or speakers, sorry, you are from different parts of the world. So you, of course, have different you know, I think that some brothers here are from Germany, some are from England, so you can see different aspects of this. Yeah.

So if you can please speak up and give us some examples of how do you see this misconception being, you know, actually manifested in reality.

Is it okay if I take the mic?

It's great, actually.

So, yeah, as you can tell by my accent, I'm the person who is from England, from The UK. So I'm not gonna talk about how it affects, you know, people in The States. I'm gonna talk about how it affects people in The United Kingdom because capitalism is often portrayed as the only option. They portray it as if it should be normal and it's the only way to live. Right?

And they say that because the West is the epitome of capitalism, the top of the leaderboard right now, They say that this is how life should look like. And this celebration of capitalism forces people into the idea, the general population, civilians, into the idea that this is the way that we should be living. And no matter how bad it gets in the country, people aren't generally going to be blaming the governments. They're not generally going to be blaming the the the capitalism itself. I mean, when you look at, for example, London, which is where where I live, I mean, more than 25% of all families in London are living below the poverty line.

They're struggling to feed their children, and almost 50% of the people in London are actually either on poverty line or below it. Right? So it it it it it that is a direct result of Western supremacy within capitalism. And they still push this idea of consumerism that the only way to move forward is this idea of financial stability and financial freedom and this idea of social mobility and telling you that capitalism is the only way for you to get any social mobility. And so people are always going to be illusioned by this idea of capitalism believing that they can move forward in this when in reality, the entire thing is a facade.

Like you said, it's a facade to to it it hides what the true idea of capitalism is, and it's to make the rich richer and not to help anyone in the entire country across the entire globe, across the entire West where not even just the West, but across the entire globe, but especially in the West where they push this idea that western supremacy within capitalism is the best thing that happened to the entire world and degrade everyone across the entire world for not following in the exact same steps as them. Did did that answer the question? Because I feel like it did, but I don't know if I worded it properly.

Yeah. Of course. And especially, like, they present capitalism if it's their own invention or something. Right? You know, even when I was studying economics, they'll be like, oh, yes.

So we had this guy. Right? Of course, he was from England. He was named Adam Smith. Right?

This is the father of, you know, free markets and free economic. Like, as if before that age, right, no one ever traded. There were no free markets. No one ever like, as if capitalism is just some invention again of the West. Right?

Like, you know, they always take something that exists already in other civilizations, other nations. Right? They put the label on it, and then they appropriate it. Like, hello? Really?

And it's it's really crazy. And we see this time and time again. Right? And especially with capitalism, I feel that it's very, like you know, it hits the eye. Right?

Like, you can immediately see what are you talking about. Right? Like, this is something that has always existed. You know? Like, you had the silk and road road.

Right? Silk Road before in China and, you know, stretching all the way to Europe. And what were these people, you know, trading at the handgun, or can someone, like, explain to me what were they trading based on? Was this not capitalism? Were these people not basically trading whatever they wanted with anyone who they wanted to trade with?

I don't understand, you know, this appropriation of things that exist and just trying to assert that it's yours, and you are the one who are trying to bring it to the world. Like, what are you trying to bring to the world? You just stole it because you saw that other people and other civilizations were already practicing this for two thousand years maybe before you. Right? Yeah.

Sorry, brother. I see you wanna speak up.

No. No. No. No worries, Karim. It's just that I wanted to comment on your saying that they it already existed, and that definitely is the case, which which you remarkably allured to when you said that the Silk Road had been there for two thousand years before and people knew how to actually trade.

The thing about the West is that they turned this thing into a a machine that would generate money regardless of human value. That's the unique thing about that about them, about what they did even when sister Iman was talking about London and and we're talking about London. So we're talking about, you know, a first world country. We're not talking about the global South. Somehow they were able to to to overturn things in such a way as that profit became the the goal after it was some source of income for kingdoms and empires in in the old or in the classical world or in the premodern world world.

And suddenly it became increasingly increasingly profit oriented that it made it made it made them blind towards anything else. Human suffering became nothing to them. Human suffering of the global self became nothing. And then as brother has mentioned already in many of his videos, it's now coming up or creeping up to their own societies. Treating their own societies in the same manner they were treating the societies of the global South.

So that's the unique part about them that they took capitalism and they were very extreme in their capitalism. It was not only a source of income became very profit oriented and profit and profit only was the the the goal here no matter what the cost. So

Exactly. Exactly, brother Omar. Like, as you mentioned, they always take anything that already exists, and they push it to the worst possible state imaginable. Right? Like, it's not that capitalism did not exist, but they appropriated something that already exists, and they used it in the worst possible degenerate manner that one can even not imagine previously.

Right? Yeah. Sorry, sister Lisa, please, and then sister-in-law.

Assalamu alaikum. Thank you so much for adding me on. I just have to add from my perspective. I agree 100% that capitalism is being pushed. It is part of the Western that you actually reiterated or or or clarified that when we say the West, it is not about the g just the geo geographical location.

It is more about the mindset because you can have that mindset within any within a person that is probably living in the global South. Now when it comes to capitalism, I agree. It is used or they would like to make it seem as if they came up with a concept of being rich. And then that is they also touted to be the end goal that there is nothing more important. That success is only measured as long as you have as much money in your bank account.

That you have this unhealthy mindset being promoted, such as you only need to sleep, like, four hours a day because you need to be, like, this rich person and that rich person. But they don't talk about the other hours where you need to be balancing it out with prayer and those type of things. It's just about making money. It's a very unhealthy mindset. And at the end of the day, the only ones that are benefiting is not even you and your family.

It is those capitalists that actually want you to work as hard as possible to make their money because that is how they operate is they use and and and and it's it's more predatory in terms of using people who with the with the idea that these are your goals. These are this is your purpose in life, which is not anything to do with what Allah has taught us, what your purpose in life is. So they do corrupt what it is that they teach to people, and it does spread because they are successful in in in spreading those type of of narratives. Another example that I would like to what I'd like to say from a South African perspective and where it is that the West operates with South Africa is, the first thing you'd hear is when a political decision needs to be made within the country that is for the people, and we want a humanitarian thing because this is what South Africa we value within the country. These humanitarian issues, then you will find a certain class of people.

The first thing they run to, the first thing they talk about is it's going to tank the rent. I mean, being, you know, having that humanitarian element, how will that really make, the rand, so ineffective and so, you know, tank it? It's it's a problem, you know, that they already fear that their wallets are going to be affected and that, they would have, they won't have salmon. They'd have to eat snook or whatever the case may be. I don't know.

But, you know, that that that is mainly the the first thing that, they have within their minds is that, they fear poverty. And that is because the West has instilled that, within them that that is how, you will be affected if you do not, do things the way that they want you to do it.

Absolutely. I completely completely agree with sister Nisa, and I agree with brother, no matter what he's saying earlier and brother Kenny, all of you. And I just wanted to add the point, firstly, that this is exactly why the military industrial complex exists in the first place. Right? The quickest way to make fast cash is to exploit, to kill, to hurt, to commit genocide, commit ethnic cleansings.

That is the quickest way to make money. And, essentially, what you're talking about what brother Karim was talking about earlier was that they changed capitalism from something that used to be used for trade across the entire globe, and they used it in a way to exploit people. So no matter the cost, no matter the human cost, they will do whatever they wanna do so long as it makes the money. And I I just wanted to say that that is exactly why something like the military industrial complex exists, and that's exactly why The US wants 40% of the military industrial complex. But, also, another point, addressing the the chart that is on here, it says, well, the national average in The UK is at 46%, whereas London is at 70%, which means that if you remove London from The United Kingdom, The UK will have a lower GDP average than basically every single state in The United States Of America.

Right? And so the wealth in The UK in London, especially so not just within The UK how big the inequality is. Within London itself, wealth is very, very unequal. Right? It's unequally distributed.

So in London, the top 10% of people with wealth in London hold almost 50% of all the wealth in London. Right? So you can see that the inequality within London is absolutely terrible, and then the inequality within The UK itself is absolutely terrible. So if you just remove the rich people, the people who own 10 who own 50% of London, again, the entirety of The UK would have a lower GDP than so many countries across the entire world. And this illustrates to you that capitalism within the West is not actually something good, and it is not actually beneficial.

And The UK is technically not even a first world country because this can actually be compared to countries across the entire world, countries like Bangladesh, countries like Pakistan. It can be compared to countries across the entire world, which means just like the phrase that a lot of people use, America is a third world a third world country with a Gucci belt on. The exact same thing goes for The UK. The inequality in this country is absolutely devastating. You would literally see so many people below the poverty line.

The the and and and think one of the biggest reasons for that as well is because of the fact that around 40% of Londoners are first generation immigrants, and then you have almost 70% of Londoners are actually not from The UK. And so they exploit the people within London, especially to be able to make this money. So it all ties back to not caring how many people they have to hurt to be able to make their pockets get fuller and fuller and fuller.

Yeah. I'd like to add also, like, when you especially when you talked about how they want to create quick quick profit using the military industrial complex. I mean, arms trading has not been something that is new. It's always existed for for centuries and for generations. It would it's always existed between Muslims and each other, between Muslims and non Muslims, between non Muslims and non Muslims.

The difference is is how what we call capitalism today. I mean, what I think happened is that the Western the Western colonized mind monopolized on the on the on the idea of trade being free and fair fair to to emphasize on that and basically took the phenomenon of free and fair trade relationships and turned it into what they named it as capitalism. And capitalism is basically trade that is free, but it's simply not fair. So where it's where you have trade that where the rules of the game, the rules of trade don't apply to everyone, and that's the biggest problem. And that's what distinguishes cap what what what we call capitalism from normal free, and fair flow of the market.

And I'd like to add also that with regard as well to the, like, the fact that it can be reflected also in in countries like The United Kingdom, just also The United Kingdom, but also in parts of our parts of our world, the global South, you can see that as well. So it is a a parasite that has managed to find its way throughout the entire globe. Some countries have escaped that, but many others haven't. So it's not only a unique phenomenon that exists just for the West, it has affected us as well.

There's another aspect of it, which is the, you know, the industrial revolution and the ability for mass production. And when you add that to the military industrial complex, it's devastating for the world. It's incredibly devastating and dangerous and destructive for the world because you have a situation now, like if you're talking about non military products, just regular products, a company has the ability to produce way more than there is a need in the society for their product, But they but they because they have the capacity to make so many, they need to sell everything that they make, which means that they have to now create new markets either by spreading their products around the world or by advertising, marketing, and so forth to indoctrinate people and brainwash people into thinking that they need things that they don't need so that they'll buy those things. Now when you when you put that in the context of the military industrial complex, then war becomes a a creation of markets. That's all they're doing.

They they they need to create conflicts so that they have a justification for their mass production of instruments and devices for death and destruction. So it's it's like tied to the overproduction, over, you know, mass production of things that nobody needs. And when you when you connect that with the military industrial complex, it's devastating. And this is this is one of the things that we've seen. It's just the the The US deliberately creating conflicts all around the world exclusively for the purpose of funneling money into the end of military industrial complex.

They're they're creating markets for products that nobody asked for. I mean, used to be like brother brother said, there's always been arms trading, but that was based on an actual need. That was based on a preexisting conflict. That was based on a on a, you know, on a conflict that erupted that then this nation or that nation or even this tribe or that tribe needed to arm themselves to be prepared for a battle because the battle was taking place organically. It came about organically.

Now there are so many conflicts around the world that are not organic but have been instigated and are being perpetuated for no reason other than the profit motives of the military industrial complex.

Exactly. Like, this is one aspect of it. Right? Doing it, like, militarily through the military industrial complex as you greatly just explained. And, also, we will look at how they do it, you know, through the economic subjugation, right, through the different institutions that they helped create, right, and assert their dominance through these means.

Okay? So brother Amal, just you know, I see your hand, so if you wanna add something.

Yeah. I mean, brother Shahid, talked about, you know, the military industrial complex in The US. And speaking of The US and we know we all know how The US is, you know, priding themselves that they are the richest and the most prosperous nation on the earth. But when you when you inspect that sentence, you you will find it extremely separated and disconnected from reality. I mean, for example, the Rust Belt Region, which was, you know, stretching from New York through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan was this this region was was the heart of the American industry.

Right? And it has seen economic devastation due to factory closures and the industrialization, unemployment, poverty, and population, you know, decline has ravaged in these areas turning once, you know, cities that were once thriving like Flint and Gary to practically ghost towns right now. I mean, another example is, for example, if you take Mississippi, this is the poorest state in The United States. It has a poverty rate of over 19%. It suffers from inadequate health care, underfunded schools, crumbling infrastructure.

And if you take Mississippi if you if you consider Mississippi, if you look at that as a country because each state is at least in in the constitution history, it has its own, you know, laws and regulations and so on and so forth. If you look if you look at it as a country, its economy would resemble that of a developing nation, so called third world developing developing economies. So its GDP is per per capita is lower than that of Argentina and Thailand with poor infrastructure and underfunded public services and high poverty rates. So this highlights the illusion that The US is uniformly wealthy when in reality, many of the regions are struggling in The United States. So that was an example, I think, that shows just how glaring differences are.

Yeah. Exactly. Like, you know, there's this chart also uploaded in the table. If you look at all of these states and compare them in nominal GDP, you will basically see that it's just like California or, you know, the the leading country, right, this with San Francisco and Silicon Valley, etcetera. These are raising the average GDP per capita in the whole country.

Right? Otherwise, if you take each state individually, it's a third world country as they call them or as they call other countries. So, you know, some yes. Sorry. Someone wants to speak.

I don't know if someone's opening the mic. Yeah. Sorry, brother Jake.

Yeah. That was me. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry to interrupt you.

I was just gonna say, I mean, anyone who anyone who's who's lived in an American city also knows that you can just go block to block, and you'll see difference in in wealth. If you if you walk a few blocks in a nice neighborhood, you cross the street, and suddenly you're in terrible a neighborhood, a neighborhood that you don't wanna be in, that that really looks dilapidated and and and derelict. I mean, when you talk about the the even the way that they that they measure these things, they measure the the so called health of an economy. As you know, brother Karim, and it's sort of more your area than mine. The, the the statistics and the and the data that they use is so misleading.

Like, just when you talk about GDP or or you one of my favorites is when they talk about median income. Like, median income in The United States is such and such. Well, that's that's you know, the median and median income means the middle income between the lowest and the highest, which means that you're including multibillionaires in that. You need to take the multibillionaires out of the equation because that's just a handful of them. So it's like less than, you know, 5% or something of the population that are that are or even even 1% maybe that that are multibillionaires, but they're they're skewing the numbers.

They're skewing what the middle income is. You know, it would be like if if you said someone's someone has a healthy body weight, you know, like if you put them on a scale and they have a healthy body weight, and then, you know, the the actual number looks like it's a healthy weight for their height. But then if you actually look at them, or do an x-ray or what have you, you find that, you know, their entire body is emaciated and they have no muscle tissue whatsoever except they have one gigantic left hand. You know? It the the it's so it's so disproportionate.

It's so malformed that there's no way that you could actually in in any sort of an actual analysis, in any sort of actual examination of the economy, if you put it in that in those terms, like it's a physical body, it's a completely malformed, deformed figure. But, well, it's got a healthy weight, so therefore it's a healthy economy. This is like how they how they play with the numbers to give a very inaccurate depiction of what the whether the economy is healthy or not.

Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Like, as you mentioned, like, even the GDP, you know, GDP is basically just what is produced. It's a flow first of all, it's a flow variable.

It just tells you what has been produced in this year in the economy as a whole. Right? It's really what is produced equivalent to how people are doing. How is that relationship even explained? I don't know.

I don't know. But it's the measure that we use to assess whether a nation is or an individual in a nation is real. SubhanAllah. Yeah, brother Angie.

Yeah. Because because I'm sorry. Because the because the philosophy is that that the health of the economy has nothing to do with the health of the people.

It has nothing to

do with the actual quality of life of the population. It's just a numbers game. This is this is the this is their version of a capitalist, you know, mentality. Is that it just the only thing that matters is the actual numbers and not the quality of life or the, the the value of the life or or how easy it is for people to live, how easy it is for people to meet their expenses, to live on a daily basis. None of that is included in in their evaluation of what a healthy economy is.

It's just, as you say, with the GDP, the actual production, which is completely meaningless in terms of how healthy the economy is.

SubhanAllah, brother. Yeah.

I mean, I'd also like to say that sometimes it's not even with, like, the disparity between the low income and the high income in in the in the developed world is not it doesn't have to be on it doesn't have it doesn't have to be in one city where you can find one block that's high income, one block that's low income. It can sometimes be in the very same block. Like, for example, if you go to Brussels in Schumann Square where the European Commission is, you know, there's these nice buildings where Ursula von der Leyen and all the lovely European parliamentarians sit. When you go to the subway of that of that square, it's covered with homeless people. It's covered with homeless people.

So it's not it's not even it's not even different blocks. It can even be the same exact block.

Yeah. Exactly. SubhanAllah. And, you know, just as we were talking about inequality and how it's not distributed. Right?

Again, it's, you know, one of the phenomena of this American society. Right? Like, even the owners of Walmart, I think it's the Walton family, they, you know, own more wealth. The one family owns more wealth than the bottom 42% of all Americans combined. And you subhanAllah.

You know? Jeff Bezos. Right? Everyone heard of him. Over 200,000,000,000, right, during even the pandemic and all of the policies that were enacted during the last, you know, five, six years.

Right? You know, especially when people during COVID were sitting at home. Right? Everybody was going for the spending spree online. Right?

So Amazon kinda, you know, pro profited from that in during that time. Right? Even if you look, like, in total number, not just on family, let's take the first 1%, they own more than 90% combined, the bottom 90%. Right? So if you go from, you know, the poorest individual until the 90%, like, percentile, which can be even in the numbers of, like, more than 100,000 per year average salary in the top, you know, like, the eleventh percent if you go from the top.

But, basically, all of these combined have less than the wealthiest 1%. You know? What is this? Right? Is this, you know, the freedom or the equality, the capitalism?

Is this the prosperity that you're talking about? Like, really? SubhanAllah. And, you know, we don't even have to go to The US. Right?

If we look at Europe, I, you know, I personally am from Europe, so I know how even the European Union speaks about countries inside the European Union. Right? So they always address the problems of the southern wing. Yeah. So for example, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, these are considered the poor countries in Europe.

And you are admitting that these are poor countries when they are implementing the policies that you want them to implement. So what is the logic behind it? Kind of why one just, you know, is astonished by the level of, like, self delusion or I think we'll give you examples of, you know, look at the northern countries. Really, you know, the northern countries are based on your assessment, socialist countries. Right?

So how is this related to what you're trying to breach? Right? And they will tell Spain, you know, deregulate that. Then you saw the housing bubble during the crisis, or they will tell Italy, yeah, you need more productivity. All of these, you know, cliched words, but, literally, it doesn't mean anything.

Right? It's just open up your market so we can come and exploit you. Right? Yeah. I don't know.

So I don't know if anybody wants to add anything to this point. If not, we yeah. Sorry. Brother MD should speak up.

Yeah. Even in the so called socialist countries that people talk about, I mean, like the Nordic or Belgium or especially Belgium. Belgium is known for being a socialist country, giving a very good social welfare and health care and so on and so on. Make it hell for small and medium enterprises. They make it hell for businesses that that want for for anyone that wants to start a business and make money even as as far down as as as owning a restaurant.

Like, they tax people that just want to own restaurants to such enormous degrees that you they can never compete with a franchise like McDonald's or KFC or whatever. So even those socialist countries, they're not really socialists.

Yeah. You're right. You know, exactly. Again, they just try to label someone because, you know, they, for example, enact some more preferable social policies to the population. They will call them socialist even though in economic terms, might not be socialist at all.

Alright? But it's just, again, the slave link and twisting of words and using it to signify something negative while capitalism is only the positive. Alright. Yes. Please.

Yeah. I just wanted to say that the idea that people working multiple jobs every single day is normalized is a huge problem. I think you see people across, you know, in all these movies and everything, because I've never been to The US, but I see people working two, three jobs. Every week, they're going to they're working eighty hours a week to be able to live because the minimum wage is not high enough to live on. So the minimum wage should be raised if they want people to if they actually cared about the people.

Then they say, oh, inflation and this and that. But, no, in reality, they force people to work for less money so that people can so that they can exploit the people again and again so that they can make more money. Because, essentially, then they would be losing a little bit more money if they gave people if they raised the the minimum wage or decreased the prices of homes and everything. And I just wanted to go back to the point of the fact that you don't even have to leave a block to be able to see the inequality because just in in the area that I live right now, there's something called council housing, which means the government has, like, multiple different councils across the entire area of The United Kingdom. Right?

And each council is basically when you buy a house or in when you're renting a house, you give them less money for it because you're on government benefits and stuff. Right? Just the block that we live in, some of them are private and some of them are council owned. These private apartments are absolutely minuscule and they go for about 1,000,000 each. But if you're with with the council, you pay a lot less.

And the thing is, right, everyone in the area usually works the same types of jobs. So some people are literally making very, very little to no money, and yet your neighbor would be a millionaire. Literally, neighbor. A house next door was literally sold for £13,000,000. So you can literally see the inequality.

It's very clear. And even in London, I know we want to talk about The US, but in London, you have things called zones, which means the further out you go, the poorer the area gets, the more ghetto it gets. So living in zone one means you're you you probably see a lot of inequality because living in zone one means you're gonna be in a rich area, but a lot of times, there's council blocks. But the further out you go, the poorer the people get. And so if you're zone one, you're rich.

If you're zone six, you're poor. And it's a very, very clear divide. And the classism within The United Kingdom is all based on capitalism and everything. So they try to portray The UK as a standing class top class country and everything, but it's not. In reality, there is a very minuscule amount of people who own all of the wealth.

They own all of it, and the majority of the entire country are poor trying to live, trying to to literally trying to live without having to spend more than they have. Right? And that's why you see so many people in debt. That's why in The United States Of America, when they pride themselves on being a free market economy, saying we are free market economy because we are amazing, you are literally a business. You are a business putting people into millions of dollars of debt just to give birth to a child or because they got hit by a car.

So health care, everything being privatized is literally ruining these countries, and they don't care. They hide that in the shadows. They hide everyone, the majority of their civilians in the shadows.

Yeah. Exactly, sister. I don't know. I think that, to be honest about. Sister Nisa, please.

With regards to when it comes to America and capitalism and the way that they abuse and enslave people when it comes to labor and capitalism. They have a very high homelessness or unhouse, whatever the the term is, rate. And last year, it was at its highest, and this year, it's even increased. But of those homeless people, forty to sixty percent of those people are employed. Now imagine, you have a job, but you are homeless.

How does that work? You know, that is it's a thought that you can't even fathom how is that even possible that you have a job, but you can't afford a home. And in order for them to be able to afford a one bedroom place, they must work eighty hours a week. That is double the amount that is what you need to be working to at least, you know, get by in the first place. Forty hours is, according to labor relations, most areas, that should be probably good enough where you can still have a life apparently.

But in America, in order to afford just a one bedroom, you need to work at least eighty hours. And even if you have a job, you can still be homeless. 40 to 60% of homeless people have a job, and that is shocking, that people even still think that it is okay, that people still even think that America is taking care of them. So it is a a thing where people need to open their eyes, when it comes to how it is that they love, the mindset that they have been fed, and how they need to fix it within themselves.

Absolutely. And, you know, and and this this this sort of connects to the whole myth of America being the land of opportunity. And, you know, they they teach everyone if you work hard, then you'll get up and you'll succeed and you'll rise up the ranks and so on. But America has just about the worst of any so called developed country. It has just about the worst, ranking in terms of actual upward mobility for any for for any so called developed country, in the OECD.

I I think it's something like, like 93% of Americans who are born in the, lowest 20 income bracket, 93% of them will never get out. Only 7% will ever rise to the upper levels of of the income bracket. Only 7%. Ninety three percent of Americans who are born poor will stay poor for the rest of their lives. That's your land of opportunity.

That's that's the great motivation that they give you. This they they they give you this lottery mindset to to keep you basically pacified and accepting very unequal and and and a system that's not only unequal, but where that inequality is fortified and maintained and preserved very deliberately. But they they put in your head that you're gonna be the next Elon Musk. You're gonna be the next Mark Zuckerberg or what have you. You're going to be able to reach the the the lofty heights of wealth and fame and so on when the actual reality is that America, this land of opportunity, has just about the lowest ranking in terms of actual social mobility, upward mobility, in terms of income.

Like I said, 93% of people in The United States who are born poor will stay poor for the rest of their lives. That's the reality.

Yeah. Exactly. Like always when, you know, they mentioned this upward mobility, I just imagine this hamster right on the wheel with, you know, the cheese hanging in front of him, and he's just running constantly, you know, powering some machine or something right by his action while he will never get the cheese. Right? And he it just seems like there's something that they are dangling in front of your face, right, where for you to run towards it, and he will never be able to catch it.

So, brother, MG, please.

Yeah. And, also, there's the the problem with the with the so called upward mobility is that also they have managed to colonize the minds of the poor on on on what cons what is upward mobility, what is to be successful. And they have framed it in such a way where being successful means that you have to be from the 1%. And so what you end up with is a is a over time, a society that is engaged in a rat race that has no end and has little achievement concerning the expectations.

Exactly. And these are great points because I think we can, through it, inshallah, just you know, like, if you cannot achieve it through being a wage slave, right, this, you know, dream that they present you that it's attainable, but in reality, everyone knows that it's not attainable, you have to get into debt. Right? This is your best option to, you know, catch up with the Jones. Right?