The Problem Was Never The System

Well, you know, you've been you've been having this argument in the West for basically a century. The same argument. Capitalism versus communism. Capitalism versus socialism. Whatever.

State ownership versus private ownership, you know, private ownership versus state control and so forth. You're trapped in this binary, this sort of cage of thinking. And like I said, you're only told you're only ever told in the West that there are these two options. That there's that there's only two possible ways to structure a society. There's only two possible ways to manage an economy.

Well, no one insists upon a a false binary because binary is almost always false. You you no one insists upon a false binary unless you're just actually not interested in pursuing change. You're not actually interested in pursuing progress. And there's a reason for that. The reason is obvious because your problem is not actually your system.

This is the truth. Your problem is the character, the culture, and the values, that created the system in the first place. The priorities of your culture, the priorities of your, value system. You understand? The system did not emerge out of nowhere.

The system is an echo of yourselves, your own beliefs. You think that you can fix the system. You think you you can make things better if you fix the system. No. I've said this many many times.

The system did not make your society the way it is. You made the system the way it is because you are the way you are. I mean, okay, sure, the system itself snowballs, you know, it's it's self fulfilling, it's self reinforcing, it's a cycle, it's a it creates a spiral. Because of the system, things get worse. But this isn't a chicken and the egg type of a question, we know the origin because you built your own system.

You built your own system and you built it according to your preexisting ways, the way you are. Yes. The problem was never capitalism itself, never in an absolute sense. It wasn't the capitalism wasn't the problem. The problem is the character of the culture that practices it.

That's all. The problem is the soul of the society or the lack thereof. I mean, think about it. A culture that prioritizes hyper individualism where the highest possible good is basically personal enrichment. You're talking about a society that worships growth for growth's sake.

Consumption for consumption's sake. A culture whose moral imagination is so stunted that the only value that your culture recognizes is financial value. Honestly, the only metric of success is profit. Okay. In that kind of a cultural environment, of course, your economic system is gonna be predatory.

Of course, it's gonna be a predatory monster, an extractive predatory monster. It's a reflection of the people who are operating it. It's a mirror of your own spiritual emptiness. This is why you lack any sort of imagination in this regard, in regards to other ways of doing things. Why for for, like I say, a century, you've pretended that there are only two or maybe three conceivable approaches to the economy.

Capitalism, communism, socialism, what have you. You're literally not allowed to explore any other economic theories, any other economic approaches. You're not taught that there are in fact entire libraries of alternative models that exist, that have been tested by other civilizations across history, across human history. You're just given this narrow sterile menu of a or b, and this reflects the narrow spectrum of your own character, of your own values, and your own priorities, like I said, your own understanding of and your own approach to life itself, meaning itself. Like I mean in Islam, in Islamic history for example, we have what would be a revolutionary concept for you.

It's a revolutionary concept for you. But it's profoundly simple, and it's one of the best what you can call economic institutions in human history, and that's the waqf. You haven't even heard of that. Something like this doesn't even occur to you. Like, you don't even have to cook this up in your own heads, the idea of the wach, because it literally You you can literally literally just see it in history, but that's how blind you are.

And I'm not talking about imposed blindness here, I'm I'm talking about the pre existing blindness that caused you to build a whole system that reinforces blindness. A WAF is a permanent, inalienable charitable revenue earning engine for community services and projects, community needs. You understand? It's not a charity drive. It's not a a one off donation.

A person takes a productive asset. So, like, a person takes a productive asset, say a farm or a bakery or a complex of shops, and they permanently dedicate it to Allah to the community, to the ummah. The asset itself now can never be sold. Once it becomes a walk, it can never be inherited. It's frozen.

It's taken out of the speculative market forever. But it just keeps operating. It keeps operating as a business. It keeps operating as a a farm or what have you, generating income. But that income, the profit, now goes into a fund supporting the community.

It's revenue, it's profit, now just flows forever into a designated social purpose, to fund a school, to fund a hospital, to fund a library, what have you. To provide water for the city, you know, to take care of the poor, to take care of the orphans and so on. Because these are priorities for us, and this will go on for generations, it will go on for centuries, you know. We have WAF's in the Muslim world that have been operating for over a thousand years, you know. A piece of land, a building, a business, generating wealth, continuing to generate wealth that feeds the community in perpetuity.

You understand? It's a machine that produces social good. It's capitalism, but without the conscience removed, which is what you have. It's private property, but whose ultimate beneficiary is the public. I mean, about it.

Instead of insisting, instead of insisting that profits should go only to the already rich and to shareholders, You could actually have profits going to support the community. That's an option. You understand me? That's an option. Like I said, you don't even have to imagine it.

You don't to try to come up with it in your head. This is something that we have already done, that we have already been doing, and that we still do. Because these are the kind of beliefs that we have, these are the values that we have, this is the culture that we have, and these are the priorities that we have as Muslims. This is a balanced approach between private individual profit and the well-being of the community. Well, tell me, why didn't you ever do something like this?

Why did something like this ever occur to you? It's not because of your system. It's because of your values and because of your culture. You always talk, the leftists and so on, always talk about so called wealth distribution or or redistribution. But come on, you are literally distributing wealth and redistributing wealth all the time.

This is what you do. You have just chosen to continuously distribute wealth upwards and out of circulation. You understand? Your companies in in America, in the West are these huge vacuum machines that just pump money out of the society up into the stratosphere of the ultra rich. It's absurd.

It's truly absurd. There's no reason for this. Your companies are these huge machines just harvesting and siphoning up and sucking up money, sucking up wealth from the from the society nonstop. I'm looking at the look at the S and P five hundred. Okay?

The corporate giants. The the the the S and P five hundred. The the market capitalization of S and P five hundred is approximately $40,000,000,000,000. Okay? The total revenue of the S and P, which is market cap divided by price to sales ratio, that's about 16,000,000,000,000.

Now if you drill that down to average net profit, that's the sheer profit. Okay? That's after expenses and so forth. You're looking at just under $2,000,000,000,000. Do you understand?

The companies on the S and P 500 make a combined total of almost $2,000,000,000,000 annually in net profit. That's $2,000,000,000,000. That $2,000,000,000,000 has just vanished into the pockets of the wealthy. Once it vanishes into the pockets of the wealthy, we don't talk about it. Unless you're gonna go with the, you know, the eat the rich types or what have you, you know.

Then you'll talk about the money of the rich, that's that's your answer, eat the rich, destroy everything. Control all delete the system and start all over. This is again the binary thinking. But what if what if you applied the Wachh principle instead? Just hypothetically.

Just hypothetically. Just imagine if you could possibly bear for a moment not putting the greed of the rich before the need of the population as a priority. What if you took just 5% of the companies on the S and P 500? Just 25 companies, 25 corporations, and you turn those 25 corporations into WAFs. See, now you really get an idea.

Now you really start to see how grotesque it is, how grotesque your system is, the system that your culture built, the grotesque system of a grotesque culture. Now you're gonna see how appalling it is. Okay? 25 companies, you turn them into offs. Now their shares are frozen, they can no longer they can no longer be bought and they can no longer be sold again.

They're removed, okay, from the casino of the stock market, they're removed. Now they're dedicated to the people, to the society, to the population, to the community. But they keep operating. They keep making their products, they keep providing their services and so forth. Obviously, they're still, employing their people.

They're not nationalized, we're not talking about nationalization. This is not the state seizing control of the company, you understand? They keep doing business, they keep making money, nothing else has changed, except that the money is now being put into a fund for social needs, the profit I'm saying, not operating costs. You still have the operating costs of being paid for by the company itself. Again, this is not socialism, this is not communism.

This is something entirely different. The net profit of these companies every single year now is gonna flow into a central fund for community needs. And not for just one year, not for one, you know, political term. No. In perpetuity.

From now on, just think about the numbers. If you if you if you try to calculate the numbers, it's absolutely staggering. We're not talking about millions of dollars. We're not even talking about billions of dollars. We're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars.

You understand? This going into a community fund every single year. A perpetual, self replenishing river of capital dedicated solely to the well-being of society. Imagine that. No government program is needed.

Again, this is not communism, we're not talking about communism. This is not the state owning the means of production. This is the community, the people reaping the benefit, reaping the profit of just a fraction of the companies on the S and P, not even all of them. While those companies, yes, continue to work, continue to employ people, continue to produce and so on, continue to provide services, everybody gets paid, you know, even your big executives, they can still make their their ridiculous off the chart salaries, but the net profit goes to the people. What's wrong with that?

This isn't about redistributing wealth, you know, through taxation, through, you know, bureaucracy. This is about pre designating the wealth at its source at the company. This is structural, it's built in and it's elegant. The WAPP is an elegant system. This is a balanced approach, a balanced way.

It's a way that honors both private enterprise and innovation while fundamentally rewiring its purpose for a good purpose. It's a way that uses the the the engine of capitalism, corporations, companies, but for the benefit of the population rather than to exploit and extract from the population. And again, we're not talking about every single company on the S and P, we're talking about just a few, just a few. Imagine. The profits of a tech giant, for example.

The profits of some tech giant funding now free tertiary education for an entire generation, and for every generation thereafter. Or an energy company that will fund the the the so called green transition by its own net profits. Well, the profits from some healthcare company, you know. These, what everyone agrees with these wicked healthcare companies, now they're ensuring that no one goes bankrupt from a medical bill rather than bankrupting people. All of that money is available, it's literally available.

I I mean, it's right there in your country. It exists. This isn't a fantasy. The watch is not a fantasy. We've already done it.

It's not a matter of possibility. It's a matter of will. It's matter of changing your priorities from endless private accumulation to sustainable civilizational development. But that's not your culture. You understand?

Now you see what the problem is. This is not your culture. This is not your values. This is not what you have ever believed in. The problem was never the machine.

The problem was never the system. The problem was the operator was the architect and the operator of the system. The problem was that you lack a higher purpose, a higher moral purpose, a civilized purpose. I mean, take a company like Apple for example. Okay?

Walk make it a walk. Walkify it. Apple keeps operating, they keep producing and they keep selling. They keep employing people. But it's $97,000,000,000 in annual profit.

Now instead of that just flowing to shareholders, speculating on a stock ticker, it flows into the fund. And that's just one company. Almost a $100,000,000,000 that could be going into community services, community support, helping people. Or take Microsoft, same thing, $72,000,000,000 a year. Alphabet, the parent company for Google, $74,000,000,000 a year.

But like I say, look at healthcare, Johnson and Johnson, United Health, the United Health Group. Their profits are like 35,000,000,000, 22,000,000,000. Okay? Imagine. Imagine if those could actually be dedicated to healing people and treating people, rather than just treating people as revenue streams.

You know, the very companies that profit from sickness could actually become the permanent guardians of community health by funding, by creating a fund from their net profits that would go into allowing people to be able to pay for healthcare. Again, with no government programs, no government programs are needed, or you could take ExxonMobil, or you could take Chevron, on and on. You know, even consumer goods, Procter and Gamble, Coca Cola, all of these companies, companies that touch every household on earth. Okay? Their massive profits could become a foundation for food security, for clean water, for the most basic of human needs.

Do you see what I mean? Because the money is literally there, it exists, this is what I'm trying to tell you. But because your culture, your priorities put maximum accumulation of wealth as the highest possible good, a higher good than community survival, a higher good than community well-being, because of that, that money is as good as non existent. Take 25 companies like this, take a cross section of companies from from the, you know, the big players in the modern economy. Take healthcare, finance, energy, consumer goods, and make them WAFS.

Okay? Make them permanent resources for the people. There's literally no reason, no actual functional reason, practical reason why you couldn't do that, why you shouldn't do that. But you and I both know that it would never occur to you to do that because the wealthy are sacred. Accumulation of of wealth is sacred.

You could literally be looking at over $660,000,000,000 every year. Every year, not a one time stimulus, not a temporary program. Every year, a river of resources that literally never runs dry. And you still have your capitalism, you still have your companies. Okay?

You still have your jobs, you still have your products, you still have your private property and so on. All of these things that you hold sacred. Just be a little bit more balanced, that's all. Just a little. Just a little bit more balanced.

But this is when we see that actually it's not private property that you hold sacred. It's gross accumulation of resources and hoarding and monopolization of resources. This is what you hold sacred. The ability to actually put yourself in the stratosphere above all others. You believe in zero sum, I have to have everything and you have to have nothing and it's my right to do that.

And that right is absolutely sacred. This is where you're really coming from. Because there's really no, like as I said, there's no practical reason why you couldn't do this. The factory is gonna stay, the workers keep their jobs. There's there's no real change in the system.

The products, as I say, the products keep coming. But the fruit of that labor, the profit, the net profit, will nourish the whole community, you know. The tree remains but its fruits are now for everyone. Anyone who's hungry. And again, we're not talking about this being mandatorily imposed or enforced as a uniform policy on all companies.

No. It's like zakah in Islam. We have a percentage of our wealth that we have to give in charity in Islam. This is called zakah, which means to purify. By giving this charity, we purify our wealth by giving some of it in charity.

That's how we purify it. So, designating a selection of companies to become wants is like that. It's a purification of capitalism by balancing it out and using some of the companies, just some of the companies as perpetual sources of funding, as sources of endowment for the community. It's very simple. But look, I know that American dogmatic capitalists, their heads will explode at at at even think about such thing.

And like I say, they're so dogmatic that you already know what they're gonna say to try to refute this idea. Never mind again, it's not an idea, it's a real existing institution. It's an institution that the Muslims have had and have used and have proven for centuries. So we're not talking about an idea, it's not a theory. But you know what they'll say, you know what they'll say already because these are not thinking people, they just recite from the capitalist catechism.

So it's very easy to anticipate. They'll say, well, you do that, no one's gonna start a business. You've taken the incentive away because the incentive for starting a business is personal profit. Right? Okay.

There you have it. That's the sickness of your culture. That those are the assumptions and the priorities of your culture. That's why you have the system that you have because you think like this. It's not possible to have motivations besides the motivation of unrestricted accumulation of wealth.

That's the that's the only thing that you can possibly think about. What about private property? Right? You're you're violating proper private property. Except that the value of your corporation isn't really owned, as in the the the profit that is created for your company is created by multiple factors, least of all by shareholders.

It's created by your undervalued labor. It's created by your use of public infrastructure, by stakeholders, all of the stakeholders that that actually make it possible for you to make money at all. If purchasing shares is a buy in to the profits, then why isn't labor? Why isn't patronage? Why isn't your presence in the community?

We're all affected by your existence. Like, you exist here, you know, in our city, in our state, you use our roads, you impact our the the valuation of our land, our rents, our cost of living, our quality of life, you use our resources, know. All of that contributes to you having a business, to you making money. Every business is a coalescence of factors. Only a few of which are ever actually acknowledged financially or is having any rights.

See, the owner of a business could think of himself or herself as the custodian of the business, and instead of just being their business being an asset for a narrow segment of people who are called shareholders, your business could be an asset to the whole population. You could do that. Why is that less appealing somehow? Why is that less appealing? Well, because of your culture, because of your values.

Do you understand? This is what I'm telling you. This is not motivating for you to actually help people. That's not motivating for you. The capitalist will say that something like this will crash the market, it will destroy pensions, it will cause economic chaos.

Look, you're holding the entire economy hostage to protect your casino. The real economy, the workers, the factories, the land, all of that is intact in a wealth. Your financialized wealth is a phantom. No one needs to suffer because of that. The wealth provides real security, direct funding for community needs.

Then that's far more stable, that's a far more stable version of a pension than than a number on a volatile stock market. You're using people's retirement money to gamble on stocks, and you call that stable? No. WAP is a is a balanced, it's a sane, it's a civilized approach. Again, it's not state control and it's not ruthless privatization.

But common benefit through dedicated assets. Just a few, again, we're not talking about a blanket policy, you know. I mean, you had any semblance, okay, if you had any semblance of a decent more responsible culture, then something like a WAF is not even something that you would need to impose. It's not even something that you would need to have enforced by the government. It's something that a company owner himself or herself would just do voluntarily.

Because they themselves can do the math of how much of their net profits could actually help the population. And that would matter to them, you know. Rather than making people dependent on charitable donations by, you know, Bill Gates or what have you, the the philanthropy of individual billionaires who are just acting like feudal lords who are brushing crumbs off their table, instead of that, you dedicate an ongoing revenue source to the population. You know that old saying, what's good for General Motors is good for America? Well, if General Motors was a wok, then that would actually be the case.

Everyone would benefit when when General Motors benefits. But okay, that's dreamland. I know that's dreamland. Apple's never gonna do that. Microsoft never gonna do that.

United Health, Chevron, they're never going to do that obviously. Of course, they won't. Let's leave the the S and P 500, leave Wall Street, leave Wall Street and go to your street. Okay? Forget 25 massive companies.

Let's just talk about 10. 10 companies in your city, in your own city, in your own state, not global behemoths, but local employers, big local employers, successful family business, say, that became a regional powerhouse. There's a factory that's been there for fifty years, for example. They have a there's a chain of grocery stores that everyone uses, for example. Some local tech firm that just hit it big.

Okay? Now imagine that the the owner of that company. Okay? He built this from the ground up. Right?

He he he employs say 200 people, it's worth $50,000,000, the net profit is around $5,000,000 a year. That's a respectable figure. That's on the big end of a medium sized enterprise. It's a significant player in the local economy. It's not a publicly traded firm, it's a family owned firm, it's a privately owned business.

Okay? Now, say the owner of that company, he's 65. His kids don't wanna go into that business, they wanna become singers or something. But he's thinking about selling because he's getting old, he wants to retire. So there's a, of course, a private equity firm that's circling.

They're offering him a huge price for his company. He can retire in luxury, but you and I both know he's already a millionaire anyway. He's already a millionaire, maybe he's a billionaire by now. Right? He's literally gonna be living in luxury for the remainder of his life anyway, and so will his kids.

The truth is, So will his kids, with or without the business. Whether he sells it or he doesn't sell it, him and his family are gonna be fine. So why not turn that company into a He doesn't sell, instead he decides to turn his company into a box, a permanent endowment for the city, for the people. The company keeps running, you know, all 200 people keep their jobs, the managers keep managing, they they keep producing their products or what have you, but the ownership is transferred to a trust. The company can never be sold again.

Now it's an asset, a permanent asset for the community. A source of ongoing funds for community needs, for community services and so forth. Every year from now until the end of time, that $5,000,000 in profit doesn't go to the owner's vacation home, it doesn't go to a private equity firm to strip it for its parts, it goes into a community fund. What could that $5,000,000 a year do in perpetuity, year after year after year? Think about it, how many kids could go to university off of that?

How many people could get help with their rent off of that? How many people could get their groceries, could help get help to buy their groceries, get help for day care, get help for health care? It could fund after school programs, you know, that the government is always cutting. It could provide seed money for dozens of new local startups every year. It could fix the the the local park, it could provide guaranteed basic income for every single elderly person in that city.

Think about it. It could end homelessness in that city, not just manage it, end it. You know, you all complain in America, you all complain about your taxes. You complain about it all the time, but there's literally no reason, no good reason why The United States has to tax their people at all. Except that you act like the extreme wealth of the super rich doesn't exist as a resource for your nation.

You understand me? That's why I say it's extractive because look, they make all this money, the rich. They make all this money and it goes into their pockets. And once it's in their pockets, well, it becomes untouchable and sacred. Like say that city is $5,000,000 short in education, in their education budget for example.

Well, that 5,000,000 is produced every year. That that that that money is there, you understand? You can't do anything with it though. So now the government has to raise taxes, raise taxes on the people who are already financially struggling. Well, this is absurd.

It's absolutely absurd. There's no reason why it has to be this way. There are other ways to manage your economy. This is what I'm saying. But you don't think about it.

You don't wanna think about it. You don't imagine it. I mean, you could work out the details any way you like for something like this. Like, say the state will buy that company. The example company we're talking about, instead of a private equity firm.

The state buys it. They still give a big payoff to the owner. But then the company becomes a wealth. And now that's $5,000,000 that the state or the city does not have to tax people for to pay for services because the fund is there now, you see? There's no taxes in The UAE, there's no taxes in Qatar for example, and that's not because they have smaller populations and it's not because they have oil, no.

It's because they have a different culture. It's because they have a different, system of values. It's because they have different priorities. They have a different belief system. So, okay, say you did that with one company in your city.

You did that with one company in your state. It becomes a walk off now. Now, scale that up to 10 local companies. If you could scale it up to 10 local companies, you're looking at $20.30, $50,000,000 a year that you could that that could be flowing into permanent some sort of a permanent community fund. Well, your whole city will become a different place, your whole state will become a different place, it becomes resilient.

It has its own independent source of funding. Independent source of funding for beautification, for helping the people, for innovation and so on and so on and so on. It's no longer begging for state or federal grants. It's no longer begging for funding, it's no longer taxing you for that. They have their own economic engine for good.

So, isn't this happening? Why aren't you doing this? Why do you ever even think of this? It's not illegal. The legal framework for for a trust or an endowment that exists, it's not impractical certainly.

Like I say, the business keeps running. It's not unprofitable, just that the profit is being redirected. But you act like if it's going to the people, it's a loss. That's the reason why it doesn't happen. It doesn't happen because of the character of the culture that you have.

The priorities of the culture that you have. The values of the culture that you have. You just don't even produce company owners in that country that would make a choice like that. You know? Even while their marketing for their company is all about making your life better, the obvious truth that we all know is that they don't care even slightly about your life.

Not even a little bit. The idea of dedicating your life's work to anonymous perpetual good for the community in your society, in your culture that's not celebrated, it's seen as a waste. The WAPPF model offers a legacy of sustainable provision for hundreds of thousands or even millions of people. It's a, like I say, it's a silent endless river of benefit for people that the owner of a company who turns it into a walk will never even meet. But your culture doesn't respect that.

Your culture respects the big payoff, the big payout. You're supposed to cash in, you're supposed to get yours, you're supposed to live a life of decadence. That's actually respected in your culture, that's the aspiration in your culture. So, the obstacle is not economic, it isn't legal, it's spiritual, it's moral, it's a poverty of purpose. That's your culture.

You have a culture that knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing. You understand me? And that tells you everything that you need to know about the sickness that you're in. The cage that you're in isn't made of laws, it isn't made of economic theories, it isn't made of regulations, the cage is in your minds, the cage is in your hearts, that's a fact. You're not trapped by the system, you are the system.

The system reflects your values, the system reflects your culture, the system reflects your priorities and your aspirations. The system is a mirror of you, and the reflection in the mirror is never gonna not look like you. You understand me? If you want the reflection to change, then you have to change what is being reflected. And until you change the human being that the system is reflecting, then all your revolutions and all your theories and all your grand plans for this or that social movement for change, this is all nothing but avoidance of the real work that you need to do.

The revolution isn't gonna start by by a protest, it's not gonna start by a a rally or a march or breaking something. A real revolution in your society, your culture starts with imagination and will. A single quiet earth shattering act of giving that shames the entire logic of your age. That's why I've said I don't think anything is going to change in America. I don't I don't think anything is going to get any better in The US because no one who even talks about the problems is actually even really serious about solving them.

And I don't know if it's because they're just not actually serious people or if it's because they literally are not equipped for seriousness. That's what I think it is. Because that's a very real thing in America, it's a very real thing in the West. Because like I've talked about many many times on the channel, you have been deliberately stunted. You've been deliberately sabotaged intellectually, psychologically, and in terms of your maturity.

You simply don't have the requisite faculties for being serious people. So I don't see how you can change. See, when you hear someone crying, you know, from the bottom of a well, say, crying out for help. Okay. You get concerned, you want help, you come running.

But then you look over the side of that well and you see that there's a ladder in the well, there's a rope in the well, there's like accelerating, escalating ledges that they can grab onto, they can climb up and so forth to get out of that well. So now you understand that the problem isn't what you thought it was, the problem isn't the well. The problem is the person because you have options, but you don't want those options. So, someone's like that, there's nothing you can do for them. You can't do anything for someone like that.

They will stay exactly as they are because that's the choice that they've made. This is what you have to come to terms with in America. Your system is hideous, yes. Most of you are aware of that, painfully aware of that. But what you have to come to terms with is the fact that that hideous system is a reflection of you, it's not the other way around.

Like I've said many times before, no one invaded you, you know, from the outside. It's not like what you did to everyone else, you know, with imperialism and colonization and so forth. You came to our countries and forced your hideous systems upon us, and they did not reflect us. And to one extent or another you successfully mutated our societies to then become reflections of your system. But for us, we know this can't last, this won't last, and it's already fading away because who we are at the core has never changed.

So your your system is never gonna be stronger than who we are as a people. But that's not your situation. That's not your situation. You are in the system that you built yourselves. You're in the system that you approved yourselves.

You're in the system that you maintain yourselves. It reflects you. It reflects your culture. It reflects your values. It reflects your priorities and your aspirations.

You have the mentality of scavengers and predators, hoarders, marauders and pirates. Yes, you do. That's a fact. The rich and the poor alike, let's be honest. Let's be honest.

The poor in your society are not more moral than the rich, they just have fewer options, you know. It's like the joke about, an unattractive man, who's less promiscuous than an attractive man. It's not that he doesn't want to be promiscuous, he just doesn't have the opportunity. Yes, you suffer more, the poor suffer more, definitely. You suffer more, but the truth is that most of you who are poor, but if you became rich, you would also make the poor suffer just as much as the rich are making you suffer today.

And you know this is true because that's your culture. That's how you are regardless of your class. Your class status just limits or expands your options for predation, but your character is as it is. You are an angry, aggressive, hostile, combative people. Everyone knows this about you.

For all your talk about rationality and reason and logic, Wallahi. You are the most emotional, the most volatile, the most erratic, the most easily triggered, the shortest tempered, the most impulse driven people on earth. So no, personally, I don't expect you to change. I don't don't expect your system to change because I do not expect you to change as a people. Like I say, your system is an accurate reflection.

So, if you look in the mirror and you see a monster, you can't blame the mirror.