HEER PANDYA
Living in the 21st century, the world works by constant competition, or in other words, competition arouses a motivational drive for people. Competition in each economic sector is necessary to empower everyone to excel in their specific domain.
But the problem starts when that competition slowly turns into the exploitation of the working class, draining them out physically and ultimately leading to mental, emotional and biological exhaustion of the bodily resources- termed as burnout.
People often start neglecting human development when they begin promoting “productive human capital”. There is a huge difference between the promotion of human development and human capital in general.
Human Development promotes equal and basic human rights to every citizen and fosters their well-being.
Human Capital is the idea of humans increasing their productivity and efficiency through a greater focus on education and training. It talks about economic value.
A competitive environment becomes the means of innovation when every aspect is looked into it carefully and physically, a human can only do much, if people work their 9-5 cubicle jobs where they are just lab rats then they aren’t showing their full potential or productivity and that isn’t going to benefit us socially or economically.
Capitalism is making poor people more poor and rich people filthy rich, even if competition exists, it shouldn’t create any wider gap between the two classes which ultimately leads to an economic crisis.
Another argument arises: But these lab rats elected the government they are getting exploited by. People elect leaders hoping for a change, not to repeat the same thing they’ve been put through. This has become the new normal cause we’ve been seeing people survive like this and work like this all our life.
We need to build a democracy strong enough to favour every class of society which doesn’t just favour the rich because if democracy doesn’t allow citizens to raise questions and voices about basic human rights then the whole meaning of democracy has been lost as it only promotes exploitation and oppression.
As Karl Marx said, capitalism alienates the masses. The capitalistic world would ultimately destroy itself when all the oppressed workforce would become alienated and overthrow the owners and take control of the means of production by themselves, guiding the classless society.
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