There's a phrase that goes, "cessante causa, cessat effectus".

It means, loosely, "the effect ends when the cause is removed".

Look around at the world today. I mean take a good look. Take your rose-colored glasses off, remove your 6-figure salary blinder, and really open your eyes to reality. It's not good, and it's getting worse.

Complacency is the cause of most of it. Remove complacency and the effects we're seeing caused by it will also cease to exist.

There's no one person, or demographic, to blame for this either. It's you, me, everyone. The money-hungry corpo exec is no more guilty than the burger flipper is.

I mean, it's technically caused by a handful of ultra-wealthy individuals... But, I digress...

While the money-hungry exec might be blinded by the lust for wealth, the burger flipper is equally blinded by "the grind".

However, both are ultimately blinded to reality by complacency. On one side, the complacency that comes with believing "it'll never impact me", and on the other believing "why should I pay attention when my own life already sucks?".

These are both examples of complacency-caused effects. At the end of the day, it's beliefs like this that have allowed the perpetuation of alllllll this bullshit.

Ultimately, most of us are in the middle somewhere. Just trying to get by and enjoy life. But what about your kids? What about their kids? What kind of world do you want them to live in? Can you honestly say to yourself it's this one?

The answer isn't "da jooz" either. They're a scapegoat. Realize that.