We are continually fed the illusion that the world under capitalism is always improving the lot of the people on the planet. However, if we check out some figures we see that illusion burst and disappear. Take the basic minimum necessity of life, access to safe drinking water. You would imagine that as this wonderful system of capitalism develops more and more people would have access to safe drinking water. The truth is the opposite, at this moment in time 18:45 on September, 25, 2010 the figure of those who have no access to safe drinking water is, 1,422,510,560. The reason I give the time as well as the date is that the rate is rising so fast the it would be out dated by the time I have posted this article.
This surely is irrefutable proof that the system of capitalism is failing the people of this planet. The small group of parasites at the top gather ever more wealth and power, their lives move in circles of ever increasing opulence while the number of people who don’t get the basics of life continually rises.
The misery of not getting access to safe drinking water brings with it disease and early death yet we see the figure rising so fast that it is impossible to give an accurate figure. This situation will not improve with aid packages and charity organisations , as long as profit is the name of the game, people will die in ever increasing numbers.
Our only hope is to destroy this corporate nightmare of greed and to hell with the hindmost and start to build a society based on mutual aid, sustainability and co-operation, anarchists point the way, anarchism is the tool.
At the end of writing this article the figure for those with no access to safe drinking water is now: 1,422,523,901 and rising.
Check the figures here at http://www.worldometers.info/
What gets me is that a lot of times people have already paid for tax-funded infrastructure, like damns and wells, and then those get sold off to corporations.
That is what the system is designed to do, move all public assets into the hands of the corporate world. Most people seem to be unaware of this fact and are rather surprised and annoyed when they see it happen. However if you look at the history of this system you see the ever increasing grasp of the corporate world and the ever shrinking hand of public assets, and nobody in power is complaining, as far as they are concerned, everything is working to plan.