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Volume 1 ELITE ISSUE 66
It is “The Rat Race”, where most “We have nothing to do”, a mindset
of people are climbing career that has been programmed into us by
ladders, within a fierce the capitalism practices imposed by
environment of high competition, major entities, which turned us from a
to achieve their own personal potential active educated influential
selfish goals, starting from individual in the society to an
collecting money, to achieving a apathetic worker drones who accept
certain social status, regardless of the status quo. Those practices
actually having a positive influence guarantee that even if people become
on their surroundings. aware of what needs to be changed
and there exists a problem, they will
In this race meeting someone who have no idea how to change it.
does their job because it is for the
good of the society or because they It is crucial to know that the “we have
truly love it has become a rare nothing to do” mindset will never lead
occurance. Also, people in this rat us to a better future for us and for the
race tend to be unwilling to quit upcoming generations, and we need to
this trap, mainly due to feeling believe that, throughout the history,
incapable of having a true imapct the drivers of change have always
to end this endless cycle. been through mass movements, and
through believing in one’s
The reason why people are responsibility to be part of the
reluctant to escape this trap is the generation that forces change.
capitalist system that is
monoplized by giant corporations,
which has conditioned us to believe
that we are solitary creatures
looking out only for ourselves and
only through individual actions we
can decide our fate, which
eventually led us to lose our
collective power.
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