If I could get one message out to the powerful in this world, it would simply be "A rising tide lifts all boats."
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Money is not the only wealth - the culture around us is another form of wealth, and culture only rises by lifting the masses from the bottom, up. Like a trampoline, the indent in it sinks all that's around it.
Sucking money out of the poorest people on this planet, by the richest, is seen by them as the pre-requisite, the reason, for their wealth.
But this only is only perceived, it's illusory, because the reality is that a large part of our lives is affected by the lives of those around us, far and wide, it all ripples, it all spreads by waves.
By pouring water into the ocean and lifting the level of all ships, the glory of the world all around us is given the chance to bloom into however it aspires to grow, whatever collective creativity and intelligence can summon when empowered.
It's a mathematical inevitability. There's chaos involved when you get to a system as wide and complex as all of humanity, but that is also what empowers and inspires creation and uniqueness.
But you can't have this expansiveness when a huge section of humanity is purely focused on acting as automatons of production/service, unable to get ahead, unable to afford their small business, or follow whatever aspiration they have. They've been kept down by a crippled system, while it's prosperity is siphoned into investments like million dollar bombs with the future prospect of someday exploding. But this can change and we are far down the path towards that change. The internet is teaching people, letting them exchange ideas, letting wild, disruptive technologies flourish.
It's like a brain using 10% of it's power suddenly comes online with it's entire 100% - that's the beauty of empowering the totality. It's called an emergent system - it's seen in science and in nature time and time again. A collective system works to a more successful outcome with more of it's constituent parts given "juice," turned online, returned to the colony, connected by extra synapsis - the examples of this are as common as the Fibonacci sequence is in nature.