thanks so much for reading! This is a lot to think on.. I have been brewing on these 2 system failures for many months. All my childhood I thought one day I'd become an adult and I would be free.. then as I got older I realized there is no such thing as true freedom in this world. This made me think either it is a myth or that it is the one truth and therefore the powers that be have been working to dilute and deny each one of us our fundamental truth.. who knows! not me.. (Que that Bowie song) lol
On the topic of paying to live.. this seems to be a wide lens which we then turn and focus on many different levels.. The tier extends from the smallest: that of which the single person paying for their own needs, all the way up to the largest scale on which each country must pay the world powers to occupy their own land, to market their own resources.. ?

It doesn't make any sense.. it seems like the classic abusive relationship where the little violations slipped in so subtlety over many years become unnoticeable to abused but when an outsider looks at the relationship they wonder how it could even get that far in the first place...