The psychology of people in this made-up capitalist system reminds me of those guys playing that fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons, they're playing a fantasy game and pretending it's real. That guy that runs the fantasy D&D games, the dungeon master, is like the professional financial capitalist that controls the game and makes the rules and scenarios, he's a puppeteer controlling other people's lives.
Capitalism is just a game installed into this world by people, it's made up, it isn't real, the rules are made up, it's a fictional fantasy game. The problem is that most people don't realize that capitalism and the rules within it are not immutable or unchangeable, we as a majority society have the ability to change and mold the system into what we want it to be, a system that's fair for everyone and eliminates poverty and crime.
Many professional free-market economist will tell you that the markets balance themselves out, but they don't, they just make people at the top richer and richer, which gives them the ability to own and control the markets and the resources as well as the financial ability to control, manipulate, change and write the rules or laws within the markets and governments, giving them (the rich, power-hungry elitist) ultimate unchecked power over this world, its resources and ultimately our lives and our wellbeing. But that capitalist isn't really doing anything wrong according to the system we live in, because they have to keep fighting to keep up, that businessman doesn't want his business to shut down, so he himself stresses over future income, even though he has enough money for multiple lifetimes already. Money is a perpetual addiction that some will never have enough of, the more money someone has the more economic and political power they have, that is a big problem within the root structure of this corrupt system.
I see everything from a much deeper and broader point of view, all the different scenarios I see in movies and TV and the interaction between humans in real life and what drives those interactions at the core. The majority of problems, arguments and crimes within real life and depicted on TV and movies all derives from being brought up with a distorted, narrow, disconnected view of reality. As kids we don't really even question the system, because we trust our parents and other adults, we naively view adults as smarter and having it all figured out, and we trust that they are in control and would never create or allow a system that isn’t fair and equitable for everyone. Then some of us grow up to realize that they don't have it figured out and that they aren't in control of our own system, not only that, but in most cases they are blind, apathetic and indifferent to the inequality in the world.
Shouldn’t we have a trusted government (not our current form of government) to help regulate the economic, social and political power? Instead, we indirectly vote for people to control our lives just because we purchase their products. Just because they build a good TV, computer, product or website, or because they extract oil that millions of people buy doesn't mean that those people that run those businesses are worthy to control our economic and governmental system, the governmental system is supposed to keep companies in check, and is supposed to keep them from that much power over the Earth's resources and the distribution of those resources.
The way we in American society are brought up within this system of capitalism, it causes this unneeded struggle and separation, a disconnect in humanity, a social disorder. In a better society we would offer our children a better upbringing by having more time to spend with them and teach them, show them empathy, compassion and love, but instead we're forced to be woken up by an alarm clock and immediately are doing everything that we do because we're struggling to pay bills that are unjust and unnecessary.
Instead, everything that we do ‘should’ be for the purpose of making the future a better place. For example, thousands of people can work together to install a plumbing system for a city or town, they're all doing this knowing that in the future, once this project is completed, it will be providing water for everyone at no cost, so the work in the beginning to install the plumbing system was done with the intention by everyone that it would bring a better future by being mostly self-sufficient. Once built, that water system no longer requires thousands of people, it only takes a few to monitor and maintain it. So, why not just pay those few people that monitor and maintain the water system a regular salary in their LifeLine account? Instead, we have a perpetual billing, debt and profit system that unfairly charges individuals for running water that basically distributes itself for free once the system is in place. Once the water system is built, the laborers who built it are already paid, and the system should then operate at no cost to citizens who use it.
We grow up in a world seeing our parents and society around us struggling to pay bills while working most days of the week, tiring themselves out to the point of extreme stress and frustration which causes problems within their personal relationships, and the children see all this and they emulate it subconsciously. The kids then go to school and pass this on to one another, so the children never really learn what an empathetic and compassionate society is, instead they're brought up in an environment of competition and selfishness, simply just trying to survive.
Not that empathy doesn't exist, it's just that people have to push it back because there's nothing they can do because we are all put in a position to basically fight for the scraps, to get to the prize before the other person, which means the other person (the loser) will be forced into a position of higher stress and desperation, which then leads to crime, crime that that person wouldn't normally or need to do if their basic needs were provided for.
The system we live in is the cause of the majority of our crime rate. Since the basics of life are available in abundance, everyone should be given access to all that abundance regardless of money. This is what everyone having a Lifeline card would do, every single person has a Lifeline card which gives them/us all the basics we need and more.
That person robbing that bank or committing that violent crime was likely, beginning at an early age, dealt many bad hands from within their surrounding environment, and perpetually driven into situations of crime simply to get by in this flawed system. Crime and bad behavior is simply caused by psychological disorders and emotional triggers implanted or manifested during the writing of our programming as children, much like software written in a computer, we have software that is formed or programmed into us from others around us that were programmed themselves by the same system. Most people don't see the programming, they don't understand the deep emotional and psychological conditioning that capitalism creates, and most never even think to question it.
The system of control we live in, our system of organization and distribution of resources is outdated and no longer working for the majority of people in this world. We weigh things the wrong way, we weigh things from the perspective of money (or monetary cost) instead of actual physical resources, for example there's plenty of food resources, so plentiful that no one should ever have to go without eating, but there's not enough money that goes to everyone to purchase those food resources, so the food just sits there while people starve because they have no money, this is wrong and backwards. People seem to look at money as an actual resource instead of realizing that money is just a fictional system of control that has no bearing on the actual availability of real resources.
We've got everything backwards in our society, we create things for the sole purpose of making money, instead of creating things to make life better for our current and future generations. This needs to change, and We must change it.