When Everyone is Entitled to Something then Everyone Becomes a Slave to Everyone else.

in #entitlement7 years ago

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I grew up in an environment where I had to work in order to have something. Nothing was given for no reason or for free. Whatever I desired, I had to work for it or find some other way to earn it. This taught me quite a few lessons that are invaluable for surviving our current world of entitlement.

Part of the whole perception about entitlement stems from culture and mainly religion. This world is assumed to be created for us and somehow we think we own it for no apparent reason. Deep down, We all know that this is not true. No matter how many hippy songs we sing the world does not and cannot belong to "us". It is rather owned and controlled by many individuals and groups that have inherited the earth through trade or conquest.

Just because we happened to be alive it doesn't mean someone has to take care of us. The state that we expect to raise and maintain us has already stolen from someone else in order to exist. Everything a country owns and shares once belonged to someone else. When a human being suffers in another corner of the world it can be speculated that some ancestors once screw up some other ancestors so someone else can today have the upper hand.

This have never been a good argument to demand anything from anyone. Much like one can go roll back 3-4-10 generations and unearth their prefered version of inequality, one can also go a millenia back and find some homosapiens fucking over the rest of humanoid species to the point of extinction. The argument of "affirmative action" doesn't hold for the very same reason that on hindsight, everyone is an expert when they judge the world placing themselves at the center of it. We choose the parts that suit us, forgetting the parts that benefit us.

No matter how much we cry or complain nobody will ever give us anything for the very reason that humans are primarily competitive and possessive. We mainly give when our pockets are overflowing. We don't let go once we see out valuation growing larger and larger. This can be easily realised when you have some shitcoins going 10x and you have hard time selling.

Congratulations. You have discovered greed. We are all greedy. We just don't like those who are more greedy than we are. All the other versions that we might recall and might involve Gandi, Jesus, and many other all giving people are exceptions to the rule and it can be argued that they got social capital instead of capital. Remember, everyone is selfish because everyone aims to gain something from someone else whether that is attention, money, status, pitty or anything else in between.

This world is up for the taking whether we like this reality or not. Life is unjust and unfair and nobody ain't gonna make right for us just because we formed a group and gathered up outside a building to complain. Even those who are given some things from the government, the state makes sure to take it back, with interest. Screaming or complaining on the top of out lungs in the internet only offers stigmatization. Society is this slowly crafted into minions of entitlement. When everyone is entitled to something then everyone becomes a slave to everyone else.













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blunt and bold, but awesomely truthful. Societies that cannot keep up with the demanding pressure of life will slowly decay. The faster we get to terms with how the world really works, the better we can adapt. Such is life whether we like it or not.

When Everyone is Entitled to Something then Everyone Becomes a Slave to Everyone else.

What if everyone is entitled to not become a slave to everyone else? Boom, contradiction!

I completely agree, and this is why capitalism is the only effective system, with some minor protections. It uses the human condition of greed to lift everyone up. With the reliance on voluntary transactions people are forced to make mutually beneficial trades, so that everyone gets value.

A healthy society is built around expectations of fair exchange.

When you expect to get something for nothing, you are taking from the group without putting anything back in and without regard for whether this is good for the group or not. You demand something for yourself without any regard for the group, which is plain old selfish greed.

It is interesting to me that the group that believes itself to be better for society (Progressives) is the same group that encourages the stifling of fair exchange in favor of forced redistribution, which is toxic to healthy society. So in the name of making society better they actually poison it.

Going even deeper, the reason that Progressives force redistribution instead of fair exchange is that they think that people are basically selfish, and left to their own devices would cold heartedly leave each other to die in the streets. But meanwhile, the "heartless" Conservatives actually believe in the goodness of humans, and that if left to their own devices, believe that more often than not humans will choose to voluntarily take care of each other.

Thus the group that is supposedly the caring, nurturing, loving group is the one that believes that most humans are evil, while the group that is the uncaring, callous, heartless group is the one that believes in the fundamental goodness of humanity.

And thus the group that is considered cold and callous (Conservatives) is the group that keeps the long term health of society as their primary priority based around fundamental optimism about humanity, and for this they are labeled selfish and heartless. And meanwhile, the group that tries to enforce universal selfish behavior without regard to long term group health, built around a fundamentally pessimistic perspective on humanity, is the group that labels itself as caring and good for society.

Funny how reality is often the opposite of labels.

Great post that everyone can relate to

Totally agree.

Such an unfair world.
It is pretty truthful knowing that nobody cares.

and comforting

Good stuff dude

Outstanding post! Eye opener to say the least! Two thumbs up! I'm following and upvoting! I love steemit! I'm telling everyone I know on the planet about steemit! Wishing everyone the very best of health and happiness! :)

much enthusiasm such wow.

100% I could not agree more with the fundamental points laid out in this article. People throw the word "right" around with no clue of the importance of context it holds in our Constitutional Republic. Rights are guaranteed and agreed upon by all to be upheld. THEY ARE NOT POLITICAL FOOTBALLS. Once again stellar points I enjoy to see people hitting the nail totally on the head. I have an article with some of the same sentiment, if you'd like to check it out.
steemit.com/bitcoin/@cryptkeeper17/the-bloodless-american-fiscal-revolution

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