When I was
16 years old I went with my friend and his parents to visit some of their
friends for the day.
The people
we visited lived on a small holding of a few acres, when we arrived at the
small holding I could immediately see that these people have money (more than
the average person).
Once we
entered the house I knew they are wealthy and has a good life, nice cars, nice
house, good land and all the stuff that shows you got money.
My friend’s
parents knew this guy from church or something and this is how they were in
contact, on this day they went to get some stuff sorted out and me and my
friend actually just dragged along.
While being
at this place I and my friend did not really have anything to do there, as I
was smoking at that age I had to arrange times with my friend to go outside and
smoke out of the sight of the adults, as it was a sin to smoke in Christian’s
eyes and being a teenager still.
So me and
my friend had to go stand behind a bush away from the house and there I would
smoke.
As we were
standing there my friend said, you want to know how these people make their money.
I said yes!
I was curious, he told me he wants to show me something on the property, I
followed him to another area, there were trees and fencing around this area, he
said: be prepared for what you will see.
As we
looked behind the fence and the trees I saw a little village (community) type
of place, there were about 5 kids running around and old people, some in wheel
chairs and some just sitting there, they had caravans to live in that was half
broken with plastic sealing some parts of it, laundry was hanging from lines
connected to trees, and everyone look like they haven’t had a bath for months.
I was
shocked and could not believe what I saw, I asked my friend immediately, what
the fuck is going on here.
He told me
that the guy who lives here that we are visiting gives these people a home, a
place to stay, because they all have been thrown out of the game called
capitalism and has been black listed they can’t afford or do anything to get
back on their feet and change their situations.
So this guy
that we are visiting made a deal with these people.
The people
that live there are beggars and car watchers, a beggar can earn more than a
person with a regular job, for instance: when I was a waiter I earned up to
5000 rand a month, this is not enough to sustain me to live normally, I still
had to live with my parents and drive their cars.
A beggar or
car watcher can earn double that and more from what they are doing, I know is
seems impossible and you will ask, then why are they still where they are,
because no matter how much money they make begging, they can do anything with
the money in the system to get out of their situation, they are black listed
and/or in so much depth and many other ways, so they can only live on direct
cash.
So the deal
they make with this guy we are visiting is, they work all day as beggars and car
watchers, all the money they make during that day they give straight to him, he
will with the money buy them literally just enough to stay alive and on their
feet to work another day and give them the shitty place they are living in. Even
though one beggar can earn up to 10000 rand a month.
So this guy
has like many people, maybe thirty living there and about 15 doing the work, he
drops them off at their locations and then he goes back home or do whatever he
does, he doesn’t really have to do anything.
All this
what he is doing through exploiting these people are made justifiable through
saying, look I am helping them, I am giving them a home and food and work, yet
he lets them live in conditions less than a fly’s life, while he has all the
money to at least double that and give these people an education, the kids in
the community there does not go to school, they are future investments.
Remember,
this is the free market justification, so it’s not illegal or anything, because
it is capitalism game rules, and as long as the community sees what he is doing
as good and the right thing, they are supporting it and justifying it with.
It was my
first realization of what money does to this world and the human race. It is
sick, this guy we are visiting is how ever only reaping the fruits of what the
system as capitalism has dropped from its tree and exploiting it further, so
the root cause lies in the system, no need to blame him as I now have much more
understanding of it all.
There would
be no use in reporting this guy or standing up to him or bringing an end to
what he is doing, because what will happen to those people then, there is
nothing else out there that wants to or CAN support them, the only option for
these people was to go into another form of prostitution, selling their bodies
for money to live another day, where one man at the top gets it all, It was
like seeing the whole of capitalism in one small scale in front of me.
Thus we definitely
do need a new system, it is so clear, it cannot be more clear, capitalism is
the perfect example of what not to do or create as a system for all life, so
the only real solution can be capitalism in reverse, this is the Equal Money System, check it out and you will see, none of the above can never happen or be
possible in an Equal Money system for any human to have to experience this just
to be alive, as it will be a system where life decides life and not money.
