Money

Is money what leads us to destruction? It is only a tool — the real problem is moral: greed. Investors do not want to pay salaries; they want profits to grow every year without limit. And they refuse to take accountability: if there are profits, those belong to them, but if there are losses, they find ways to offload them onto others — including governments, as happened with the bank bailouts of 2007. Did they return the money? No.

Here in Spain, the government gave money to the banks with no repayment required. Yet if ordinary people make mistakes on their tax returns, they are fined. When people took out mortgages and could no longer pay, the house did not settle the debt — incredibly, many families handed back their homes and still had to continue paying the loan. Is that not unjust? And who did anything about it?

If the executive does nothing, people must wait four years to try to change it — which is itself insufficient. If legislators do not create laws that defend the people, and judges excuse themselves by saying they only apply the law and do not make it, then nobody is truly defending ordinary people. But when judges want higher salaries, they strike and protest — just not for unjust laws.

This division among people allows a few to take control of institutions and write the rules of society to their own convenience. Is this not frustrating? This is not conspiracy — it is what political scientists call regulatory capture. And it works precisely because people are divided. And yet people keep themselves on the sofa, watching sport and complaining, offering solutions to the air — but no real unity to bring about real change.