It seems that the more capitalistic an area is, the harder the virus is affecting it. It looks like the virus is showing us the ugly underbelly, the true face of our modern 2020 society: a sick and twisted culture, which feeds on everyone to provide to a small few who got lucky in one way or another.

The wealthier the nation is, the harder this crisis hits. How are we different from the authoritarian nations that amassed wealth at the top of the ruling class by robbing the rest of the population? We are not. The system that we hail as the modern capitalist-socialist-democracy is flawed, and it’s being abused by the few who amassed enough capital and power to ever stiffen the fabric of our society, the legal and economic systems, to continue generating more wealth and power for themselves.

While the ruled class, roughly 99.9% of the global population is either being obviously oppressed in authoritarian regimes, or oppressed by commercial advertising and false-information spreading, hidden beneath the surface, influencing our representatives in our democratic establishments.

One could point at the marvellous economies of Northern Europe to showcase the potential of the capitalist-socialist-democracies that can be, while I’ll argue that the predatory forces that prey on the consumers of most of the world simply don’t need to fight as hard everywhere else, so these areas remain relatively true to their title of democratic socialist capitalist nations. It’s not because these nations are doing something different, something better, than the rest of us, it’s simply because the capitalist predators are not interested in them enough to actually invoke the same tactics used elsewhere. Like a lion that has the option of a young gazelle over a prairie dog, as long as the gazelle is an option there’s no need for the lion to prey on the prairie dogs.

This crisis reveals to us what some of us were trying to show everyone else throughout the past several decades. It shows us that the system in which we’re supporting daily by going to work, paying taxes, and choosing representatives, is inherently so flawed that while we’re in the most abundant period of our civilization, people are dying simply because our nations are geared toward satisfying the select few in exactly the way they desire. They’re not geared towards making our lives better, easier, more pleasant during the first-known post-scarcity era.

Production and manufacturing have become so cheap that we can all afford to work only several days a year while still maintaining our unhealthy consumption rates. Technology has advanced so much that nearly 99% of the working-age population is employed by unnecessary and outdated industries, doing nothing more than pushing papers around, or in modern terms, forwarding emails back and forth.

We can do better. We deserve better. And we shouldn’t let go of the power that each and every individual has because we’re simply tought so. What we were tought was obsolete the moment we were tought it, and what our children learn is simply no longer relevant to any of their day-to-day lives.

Our society as it stands now is obsolete. By clinging to the system that we built in good faith, that was quickly exploited and thoroughly abused, we simply deprive ourselves of the personal wealth we each bring to our culture. Giving it away to someone else who wears a corporate mask that you have no relation to, despite the lies those corporations tell.

A new system is to be built, a modern, just, fair, and advanced system that isn’t hindered by the legacy created long before our advanced technology changed every single aspect of our lives.

The power taken from the people will return to the people.