Saturated Industries Furthering The Wealth Gap

Many have turned to entrepreneurship in a means to make a livable income, creating small businesses to supplement yearly earnings with the allure of ease and success. But is everyone meant to be a business owner?

Of course the idea of working as minimally as possible is alluring to many. Though it has created a cycle of instant gratification towards money seeking opportunities and an expendable mind frame towards relationships. If certain achievements are not reached in a set time frame, this can often lead to a sense of failure or burn out. Meanwhile major corporations and companies keep turning profit.

"Despite the idea that the United States is a country where hard work and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps will inevitably lead to success, this is often not the case. In 2021, 9.3 percent of U.S. households had an annual income under 15,000 U.S. dollars. With a small percentage of people in the United States owning such a vast majority of the country’s wealth, the gap between the rich and poor in America remains stark."

Economic structures are primarily designed to maximize profit and many consumers have now adopted the same formula, whether knowingly or not. “How Subtle Suggestions Can Alter Your Behavior”

Is this what we wish for our society, to reflect and see all that we did for money? Yes, we are struggling in this economic society we are seemingly forced to be a part of. But must we abandon all sense of morality? Must we accept mediocracy? Built upon the foundational guise of financial gain?

We have been forced to believe that there is no other way to live. That the climb to freedom and success is singular with no alternative.

We have become too complacent and accepting as a society. 

How do we stop things from getting worse? How do we survive what's coming? How do we avoid the world we're afraid of?

We have been living inside the change for so long that sometimes we forget we are still here in the present, every moment a choice. The future is not something coming for us, it is something we are making. So perhaps the question is not simply how we survive what comes next but how we choose to build in every moment we have.