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It's complicated. The relationship people have with money is subjective and related to your personal background (culture, social class, country, etc). Also, societal norms define this a little further - while its clear most countries connect money and power, societal behaviours towards those topics can differ tremendously, at least in theory. Typical example: a country like France had a revolution to ensure all citizens are equal regardless of their social status or any types of differences (race, social class, etc), a country like Germany also had its share of influence in history that brought them on a more social side, while a country like the United States is very heavily influenced by money-related theories (such as hard core capitalism) thus money is culturally a more dominant topic. What it means in practice will depend on who you ask, everyone thinks they are more poor than they actually are and not as rich as they want to be, many will say Germany is not social enough and France is losing its identity, but in the grand scheme of things when you compare countries and the way each of them is changing you can really see the relationship money-power is much stronger in some countries than others. The more there's a social gap, the stronger it will be

The evolution of our living conditions. We tend to forget how much things have changed. My grandmother grew up during WW2, she not only struggled to get food but also couldn’t go to school because she had to work (yes kids had to work, even in first world countries). She was heavily traumatized during the war because she had to take care of the dead bodies the Germans left behind them, she was only 16 at that time. The years after that were tough, she married a man from another country and was seen as an outcast. They worked their ass off all their life for very little money, then my grandfather died in horrible conditions and the company behind the whole thing has never been held responsible. My parents didn’t have much food either when they grew up but ant least they weren’t raised in war times, and they had access to basic education. As for me, I have done things my family couldn’t even dream of: I went to the university, speak 4 languages, married a girl from a different continent and we live freely in another country, there’s food on the table everyday, never had to go to war and even have time to waste watching shows or typing things on the internet. I am not saying the world is perfect today, there’s definitely a lot of things going wrong as well, but it’s definitely better than it used to be and we tend to forget that

An awakening would mean they would analyze and understand the situation. They won’t. Amazon has and probably always had a bullish “my way or the highway” attitude - ask people what they think, pretend you care, then ignore everything they might say. Upper managers make decisions uniquely based off costs and short term vision, and are never held accountable for the consequences. I worked there for years and you really can’t imagine how bad the work culture is there, whatever you have in mind is worse in reality

That’s an interesting comment. History and science have proven that we have evolved in a way that everything we do becomes easier. Arguably the end goal is that everything is easy (can be debated in many ways, even philosophcally), but there’s no denial that humanity has done everything in its power to make things easier. That’s the whole point of the creation and use of tools