We had the Polaroid camera and we used to create photo albums to show off our travel photos etc. Then came electronic picture folders, Facebook, instagram, Snapchat etc., and storing thousands of digital photos. And then…….
….. we’re back printing our photos with businesses such as http://www.popsa.com thriving like hell! We’re back sitting down, trying to impress our guests with our holiday photos in printed format as it is no longer quite enough, bombarding them with the digital photos via texts, Facebook etc.
That, in a nutshell, is just how messed up the human psyche is…
I was watching news of the Nepal flooding disaster yesterday and it is hard to believe that the world runs the way it is today. We look on, as more than half the world suffer in poverty and pain.
We sit in our homes in the UK, US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany etc., and we mind our own business and we say life goes on. Ok.
We believe we deserve what we have; afterall we worked hard for it. And we deserve our comforts and we must glide around the world on our holidays and spend our hard earned cash to be pampered by those whom we hand a livelihood by holidaying in their countries.
I am not getting on a high horse here, as I am no better. I am not preaching.
Emptying out poor countries around the world via uncontrolled migration isn’t the solution either. We can already see the suffering and intolerance that leads to. Illegal migrants struggle to integrate for several reasons. Many, as we are presently witnessing in the UK, then turn to crime. Some perhaps do not even feel the crimes they are committing are crimes. When you have individuals with barely any grasp of the English language and no prior experience of British laws, hopping on a rubber boat across the channel and barging in, it doesn’t bode well for anyone. Least of all, those individuals.
If we want to, we can fix majority of the problems faced by our world. But we won’t
If we create a single, worldwide form of payment, such that an hour’s work by an individual in Uganda or Vietnam, is exactly the same the same for an hour’s work done by an individual in the UK or France, and the purchasing power or value of that single global currency is the same, and we create a global structure where we bring in support: if corn grows best in Kenya and apples grow best in China, then we mechanise agriculture in Kenya (not loan them money, which never gets where intended and they wallow in debt!); we send experts there, send machinery, max out their production. We give them an industry that thrives, keep their people prosperous and happy. DO YOU THINK THEY WILL BE RISKING THEIR LIVES TO CROSS THE ENGLISH CHANNEL IN RUBBER BOATS?
If we identify all industry that can be suited to each country and we get them experts, equipment, training and drive up the production. Countries would have less interest in wars and military coups and religious strife etc. Everyone will be busy, working, earning, feeling valued.
Now, would that end all criminality? No. Would it end all problems? No. But it will sure as hell, pave the way to a much better world
But would we do it? of course not. We are each engrossed with our own little lives and getting married, travelling, visiting our families, working, minding our own business.
We could very easily create a better world for everyone. But we won’t.
Knowledge can improve the world we live in 