Hard Life, Hard Facts
1 March 2014 By Abi Giwa
Giwa
When people debate human life and the struggle for survival, they ask questions as to why the birth of a child is celebrated. Some people have said that the arrival of a child should have been a time for the parents to sit down and think about what plans they have for the child's future. And then begins to acquaint the child about the struggle for human survival as he or she is growing up. It is one proposition no one has argued against its sensibility; whether rich or poor, living on earth is believed to be difficult and at the same time sweet.
Everyday, people complains about the difficulties of living. Like a popular musician has sung that no one wants to die and leave the hard life. Yet, everyone wants to go to heaven. But against human wish anyway, many people die before adulthood; many die in adulthood due to diseases, many die from man inhumanity to man and avoidable wars.
If you are rich, you don't want your wealth to expire and be poor again, and you have to do everything humanly possible to protect your wealth. People do say that the problem of the rich is harder than that of the poor, because the rich will avoid depletion of wealth at all cost. And Ensuring to avoid depletion of wealth is where the mind is at all times, when awake or sleep. It is always said that before one becomes rich, one must have been poor. With the knowledge of poverty and its societal ridicule, hunger and lacking the means to meet one's needs and family needs, no rich person will want to be poor again. The rich does not only protect their interest, they also ensure their offsprings don't fall into poverty.
An analysis by Edward Bellamy in "Looking Backward" best illustrates the struggle by the rich to protect their wealth and pass them to their offsprings, to protect them from ravages of poverty. In the process, they keep down the the struggling poor in the ladder of aspiration, ensuring the seat at the top of the life truck remains occupied by them. When they die, their children inherits their seat in the bus. Bellamy describes life as a prodigious coach in which the masses of humanity are harnessed. The top of the coach is covered by passengers on breezy and comfortable seats and who never get down. The place they occupy is in great demand and and the competition for the seats keen. There are accidents in which some of the occupants may lose their seats. The seats are insecure and at every jolt of the coach, people fall off and compelled to hold the rope and help to drag the coach along with other unfortunate poor. It is naturally a terrible misfortune to lose a seat.
From time immemorial, the rich has been the master and the poor the servant. In some occasions, the servants get freedom to aspire to be rich. For some, it is a struggle of life and death. Perhaps, it is from here capitalism develops its meaning as the struggle for the survival of the fittest. It was the rich that enslaved a whole lot of people from Africa to work the sugar-cane plantation in the New World. Of course, you have to be rich to be an employer of labor just like the slave masters of yore. But today, there are laws that have checked the employers of labor from turning into slave masters. But the adage that he who pays the piper dictates the tune still applies. The advantage that wealth confers on the rich has made it a compelling need for virtually everyone to work to be rich.
Very few people resigns to fate these days - a lesson taught in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby". The star in the story discovers that he has to be rich to be comfortable in the affair with a lady he has fallen in love; who is rich and in the company of the rich. Gatsby got the wealth at all cost, like many people have been doing, rising from poverty to riches, but lacking the sense to manage the compulsion to reckless life and senseless competition.
And then the crash and an end to a fantasy existence. It is happening to many people today, who after gaining the world lose their souls.
Everyday, people complains about the difficulties of living. Like a popular musician has sung that no one wants to die and leave the hard life. Yet, everyone wants to go to heaven. But against human wish anyway, many people die before adulthood; many die in adulthood due to diseases, many die from man inhumanity to man and avoidable wars.
If you are rich, you don't want your wealth to expire and be poor again, and you have to do everything humanly possible to protect your wealth. People do say that the problem of the rich is harder than that of the poor, because the rich will avoid depletion of wealth at all cost. And Ensuring to avoid depletion of wealth is where the mind is at all times, when awake or sleep. It is always said that before one becomes rich, one must have been poor. With the knowledge of poverty and its societal ridicule, hunger and lacking the means to meet one's needs and family needs, no rich person will want to be poor again. The rich does not only protect their interest, they also ensure their offsprings don't fall into poverty.
An analysis by Edward Bellamy in "Looking Backward" best illustrates the struggle by the rich to protect their wealth and pass them to their offsprings, to protect them from ravages of poverty. In the process, they keep down the the struggling poor in the ladder of aspiration, ensuring the seat at the top of the life truck remains occupied by them. When they die, their children inherits their seat in the bus. Bellamy describes life as a prodigious coach in which the masses of humanity are harnessed. The top of the coach is covered by passengers on breezy and comfortable seats and who never get down. The place they occupy is in great demand and and the competition for the seats keen. There are accidents in which some of the occupants may lose their seats. The seats are insecure and at every jolt of the coach, people fall off and compelled to hold the rope and help to drag the coach along with other unfortunate poor. It is naturally a terrible misfortune to lose a seat.
From time immemorial, the rich has been the master and the poor the servant. In some occasions, the servants get freedom to aspire to be rich. For some, it is a struggle of life and death. Perhaps, it is from here capitalism develops its meaning as the struggle for the survival of the fittest. It was the rich that enslaved a whole lot of people from Africa to work the sugar-cane plantation in the New World. Of course, you have to be rich to be an employer of labor just like the slave masters of yore. But today, there are laws that have checked the employers of labor from turning into slave masters. But the adage that he who pays the piper dictates the tune still applies. The advantage that wealth confers on the rich has made it a compelling need for virtually everyone to work to be rich.
Very few people resigns to fate these days - a lesson taught in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby". The star in the story discovers that he has to be rich to be comfortable in the affair with a lady he has fallen in love; who is rich and in the company of the rich. Gatsby got the wealth at all cost, like many people have been doing, rising from poverty to riches, but lacking the sense to manage the compulsion to reckless life and senseless competition.
And then the crash and an end to a fantasy existence. It is happening to many people today, who after gaining the world lose their souls.
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