This guy was an amazing poet and musician, often dubbed “The Godfather of Rap”, he’s famous for one of the most critically acclaimed political songs: “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” as well as his innovative recent album “I’m New Here”.

May his words and wisdom continue to inspire.

Just take a look at the people that work the hardest today, nurses, cleaners, factory workers, firemen the list goes on. If the American Dream was true, then these people should be the thriving. But instead its the people who do the least work such as land owners, bankers and shareholders, getting rich through rents, investments and exploiting the poor’s debt.

Pyramid of the Capitalist System

The IWW (Industrial Workers of the World), produced a classic poster depicting the capitalist pyramid scheme, showing all the instruments the capitalist uses to control the masses.

Modern Pyramid of the Capitalist System

I discovered a more recent version on Francois Tremblay’s blog, which is more relevant to how the Capitalist Pyramid scheme functions today.

If the business is created by more than one person, then those people share the profits of the business in a partnership.

After the setup of the business, any new workers that join the business are not usually entitled to any profit generated, only their wage which is set by the employer.

This is were the problem starts.

Workers are exploited by their employers whom benefit entirely from the profits created from their labour. This is a form of unearned income, which is the process of those with capital controlling the means of production to extort capital from the workers.

This is the system of capitalism, which dominates the world today.

In small to medium sized business, where the owners of the business are usually also employees within the business; the owners primary motivation is profit, but because they are also employees they usually care about the well being of the workers and the social responsibility of the business.

As the business grows and the founders have extorted a significant amount of capital from the workers, they often retire and live entirely off there capital generated by the workers labour.

Because the workers never get their rightful share of the profits, the amount of capital they can save to start their own business is limited, and ultimately they would have to find wealthy investors to finance their own business.

Investors give capital to entrepreneurs, and in return they want a share of the ownership of the business, and a share of the profits.

This reduces the share of the profits the founder of the business recieves, so they are encouraged to reduce the pay and working conditions of the workers to compensate, exploiting the workers even more.

To generate more unearned income, the wealthy elite (Bourgeoisie) encourage a “free market” where they can invest money in all different types of companies and exploit workers to fund their extravagant lifestyle.

The ultimate form of capitalism is slavery, where the the owners of the plantations also owned the workers, and extorted the maximum amount of profit, becoming incredibly rich and powerful.

This is why today some countries are rich and some are poor. The poor countries were the ones where the workers were exploited and enslaved, and the rich countries are the ones which did the exploiting using brute force and barbarian tactics.

What’s the alternative?

The alternative to the exploitative business model are co-operatives.

In a co-operative, the workers and consumers all own the business, which means they get to share equally in the profits the business makes, and have full control over how it is run.

This benefits the workers, because they receive better pay and working conditions. It benefits consumers, because they get products they need. It benefits the wider community because business decisions made will take into consideration the needs of the community and the effects the business has on society – making it possible reduce carbon emissions, promote fair trade and invest in community projects.

These types of businesses already exist, so you can make a difference today by trying to purchase from them whenever you can.

• The Co-Operative Group
• John Lewis Partnership

Further reading:
What’s the Problem With Unearned Income?

With this in mind, it might not seem surprising that the huge success of the Nintendo Wii, has spawned brood of imitation goods (PS3 Sixaxis is one). The most notable of these is the self proclaimed Chintendo “Vii” made by KenSingTon (lol, they even faked the brand Kensignton!).

The system is basically a supped up NES that features a motion censored controller similar to the Wii, but far inferior.

Anyways, this great video on YouTube pretty much sums it up, have a look.

The threat of the Vii, is not going to make Nintendo break a sweat, however the modding and pirating of Wii software was reported to have lost Nintendo nearly $1 billion dollars (source:Next Gen), and the company isn’t happy about that at all.

When a recently ‘saved’ Christian friend of mine invited me to a Christian gathering, I was a bit reluctant to go at first. But I decided that if there are people that have the answers that Im looking for, or maybe can explain christianyt to me in a non dogmatic way, then it would be worth the visit.

Arriving at the 2 story terraced house, I was greeted by friendly young people and promptly welcomed into they’re home for the entertainment and socialising to begin…..

The eneving started off with some prayers and talking in tounges (when they say gibberish and believe it makes sense to god, even when they dont understand what they are saying). Feeling much like the odd one out, the evening began with drinks and talks about the “the world” and what christians must do to save their souls.

I debated with them about several issues including:

Why arent dinosaurs mentioned in the bible if god knows all?

There answer was dinosaura are in th bible and Leviathan was an example, I had to point out to them that Leviathan is a mythical creature, and not as real like a T-Rex, I also had to point out that humans and dinosaurs couldnt possibly have been alive at the same time, but they just disputed these claims by saying that science is corrupeted….

Why do Christians, hate gay people so much?

They said that ity was because our purpose on earth is to procreate, and homosexuals cant so thats agait gods will. I challenegd this by arguing that some hetrosexual couples canot have kids, what is there purpose in life if your belief is true? They disputed my cliams a being irrelivent becaus they believe that all true christians can have kids if they pray o god….

What is our reason for existing?

They gave some long winded answer about why this quetion was irrelivent (obviously sedated by the dogma of religion), however they then gave me an answer which was to serve and worship god… sounds like slavery to me, which brings me to my next question…

The bible contains rules and methods regarding the treatment and rights of slaves. How can you believe in any religion which condones slavery? They argued that it wasnt slavery but servitude, and rules of how to treat a servant, but this is obviously white washed rubbish, as servants dont have to give thir children to their owners/employers ect….

And there was lots of other debates going on, but the overall conclusion, they said I have to believe before I can understand. And so we came to a stalemate.

I hope by reading this you do not think of me as an active athiest trying to disprove god. I just have an open mind about life, and I am not so easily manipulated by the scriptures and communites of organised religions.

Its diffinately contaversial, and some people may find it offensive, however I think its important people do not take to dogma when it comes to media and what governments tell them.

To download the movie for free, goto http://www.loosechange911.com/

You can view the video trailer below: