Everyone talked about saving the environment. Save the environment! Plant more trees! Don’t waste water!
Yeah yeah yeah. That’s all fine and mighty, but how many steps have YOU taken to save the environment? How many trees have YOU planted? How much water have YOU saved?
The corporations got away with it through useless marketing and advertisements. But the individuals found it harder to hide their hypocrisy.
Capitalism fueled the manufacturing and processing industries. The industries pumped poisonous water into the water sources. They released poisonous gases into the atmosphere. They dumped billions of tons of hazardous waste into open grounds.
And they did it because the governments failed to do their jobs. Some crooked politicians were paid off to ignore the matter, and some rich billionaire pricks counted off their money in their mansions.
The price was paid by the factory workers who worked in extremely dangerous conditions, and the population surrounding the factories, then by the rest of civilization living hundreds of miles away from the drainage sources.
In the end, we were all paying the price.
The air had become unbreathable. The tap water looked like piss. Organic food prices skyrocketed. The rest of the vegetables looked like they were manufactured by some factory in China. In fact, videos surfaced online showing fruits and vegetables made of plastic and filled with colored water and chemicals. It was scary. To think that you could end up with a plastic vegetable or fruit just because you were trying to save a few bucks…
There were chemicals everywhere. Fruit and vegetables were sprayed with chemicals to make them grow bigger or look riper. In fact, it was no secret that bananas were ripened by soaking them in chemical water overnight.
Human beings had fallen below the dignity of even animals. It was pathetic to see how low people were willing to stoop just to make fast money.
Here’s how capitalism works: First they manufacture a problem to disturb the people, then they present the solutions that they’d invented before the problems existed.
The people think, “Wow! Technology has improved so much! It is saving lives!”
To which I said, what a bunch of fucking idiots!
First they polluted the water sources, then they sold us water purifiers. Then they polluted the air, and sold us air purifiers. Then some prick came up with subscription based models. The equipment you bought would only function if you paid the monthly subscription fees. When the payments stopped, the equipment just at there, gathering dust.
At some point in time, human beings had become dispensable and expendable.
Millions of lives were being used up and discarded to feed the giant system of greedy corporations and corrupt governments.
The only ones to profit were the people at the top. They didn’t care about the people. Not even the slightest. That explains why factory workers were exposed to hazardous and unhealthy working conditions for decades until someone spoke out or some activist or journalist discovered the problem.
And by the time the problem was discovered, thousands of lives would’ve been affected negatively. They weren’t compensated fairly. Instead the corporations threatened and silenced them. The stubborn ones were killed to send a message to the others.
Many factories had an open rule: Do not speak with journalists!
Any time some corporation denies access to journalists and activists, you can be sure they’re doing some very shady and illegal things in the dark.
But, there was no justice. The activists cried and yelled. Their pleas fell on deaf ears. The legal system was corrupt. Court cases carried on for decades and were almost always ruled in favor of the corporations.
There was no point in fighting. The poor suffered in silence. They knew they couldn’t stand against the corporations.
There was a lot of talk on Twitter and Facebook, mostly made by people who wanted their “GOOD BOY POINTS”. When people failed to gain attention through their regular nonsense, they would jump on the activism bandwagon and tweet something cool.