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Do the strong opress the weak today?
One of my friends called me today to ask me if I could help her with an assignment on weakness and strength and she brought up this question "Do the strong opress the weak today?" and I started thinking about it.. at first I said "not really, the rich give to the poor, the physically strong help work out with the physically weak, the mentally strong give advice to those weaker etc" cause i mean we are good and considerate as humasn we try to help, we dont think "i cant help this person cause then he'd be stronger than me" we're not like that, but she seemed convinces that the world was evil- agreed, it is, bad things happen, but it has nothing to do with the strong opressing the weak, does it? What are your thoughts on this? Do you agree with her or me?
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As negative as this might be, I think all throughout history the weak has always been oppressed by the strong.
Humans started out as nothing more than animals and our animal instincts, although supressed to a large degree over the time of our evolution, those primal instincts are still there. We feed on animals weaker than us (cows, chickens, pigs etc, etc), we hunt animals we deem less superior to us (lions, tigers etc) and I think that the strong do opress the weak.
It's just how we have always been. There are those who feel because they are stronger than somoene who's weaker it's their responsibility to help them but this doesn't apply to everyone. There's the odd few but overall the strong do opress the weak. This was probably how unions came along. The weak felt powerless againt the strong so they joined forces to form a union as a means to fight injustice from those more powerful than them (powerful not necessarily in terms of physical strength). As a union, hundreds of these weaker people found strength in numbers and were able to stand up to, if not overcome, these stronger odds. This happens everywhere even today all over the world.
It's not even just a matter of good vs evil. This power struggle of wanting to be more stronger than the next person is what lies in our very essence. It's in our very blood to be the stronger because under all the popular brand clothes, the makeup, all our education and our teachings passed on from our parents and their parents we are all nothing but animals. And our primal instinct is to survive by being the stronger and more powerful.
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Human nature has been and unfortunately always will be the strong survive and the strong take advantage of the weaker.
That will never change.
Yes, there are good people that are the exception to that rule as in every rule and human behavior.
But, still today the stronger do take advantage of the weaker, whether it be physical or mental.
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**Edit: There's not much you can do. Be careful not to spend your money frivolously, donate it when you can. Join an anti-capitalism group, or spread the word about the harm capitalism causes(like I've done with this answer). Don't be stressed about it, though; the weight of the world isn't on you alone.**
The electricity you're using to read this right now comes from a power plant. That power plant is staffed by hundreds of people that are paid minimum wage. Hundreds of thousands of components in that factory comes from China, where workers are paid almost nothing. A large amount of the coal in that power plant comes from Africa, where 22 people have died in the time it took you to read up to this point from malnutrition, wars, and general poverty*. These people must work to survive, and they can't leave their situation. They are slaves, working for nothing or almost nothing so that you can ask advice on the internet.
The cause of this tragedy is capitalism. Everything that supports capitalism further irritates the situation. Oppression is defined as the use of power to a group of people's detriment. By spending any money, you are making the capitalist hierarchy bigger and more clearly defined; you are using your power(money) to hurt a group of people(the poor). So yes, you are oppressing millions of people, and I agree with your friend.
(*based on the difference between US death rate and African death rate)
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