ITS EASIER TO IMAGINE THE END OF THE WORLD THAN THE END OF CAPITALISM - informational rant
let’s taco bout it it’s 5 am idek what I’m writing
The gap of wealth that the people had before the French Revolution is basically nothing to what is going on right now. Around the world, people work their asses off day and night to be able to get by. It’s because of this that people lose sight of what actually matters in life. Because of hustle culture, people, especially teens, are working to exhaustion for a slack of meat. You don’t really need to work hard to be deemed smart, but the government doesn’t care about that. They just care about the end result. The end result that lets you survive.
The French Revolution was a period of a political change in France that overthrew the monarchy. People were dying from exhaustion and hunger, suffering from inequality and high taxes on the poor. The government was asking for what wasn’t available. Did they know it wasn’t available? Most of the time no, because everytime they were informed of it, they threw it over their shoulder and were blinded by the money they were lucky enough to have. The money they didn’t donate or offer to their community, the money that went to everything but the ones who needed it. It was a stupid cycle of asking for imaginary money.
The reason, or at least some, to why France was attempting to ask for money in the first place was their own fault. They asked for money to pay off taxes from wars, debt, and to maintain their royal benefits. It basically went like
“Hey! I want to keep this royal name, royal dining, royal people, royal, royal, royal! To be able to keep this royalty, I’m going to tax my people. Now that the taxes were paid, we have enough money to keep this thing. But now we want more of this thing, more of that, more of everything. So now, we will tax tax tax and spend spend spend while still asking for money. Since we are asking for more and more money, we don’t care that we are basically taking our peoples lives away. Why, cause we are getting what we want and anybody else outside of us is irrelevant.”
Basically, the people had enough and they decided to start a revolution. The French Revolution. People boycotted in similar ways they would do now. They refused to pay taxes, or refused to pay full price for things, sometimes even changing prices on their own without permission from any nobles. The French Revolution obviously went on to stay relevant and taught in schools and communities all across the nation. It’s still referenced to today, even used in art or to make statements.
So what does that have to do with the now? Well, according to CNBC, Higher-earning consumers, encouraged by rallying stock holdings and elevated property values, are splashing out on vacations and premium goods. On the other hand, after years of higher-than-ideal inflation rates, lower-income cohorts are struggling to afford necessities such as housing, groceries and gasoline. Spending also rose at a faster clip for top earners during much of 2025, data shows. Now, the poorest Americans feel increasingly cast out. The confidence gap between how the highest- and lowest-earners feel about their financial situation compared with five years prior grew to its widest in more than a decade in 2025, according to the University of Michigan’s Surveys of Consumers.
Let’s address the elephant in the room though: the wealth gap. Also according to CNBC, the top 1% held a record 32% of net worth in late 2025, while top estimates show the top 1% owning closer to 46% globally. Back then, the poor ate rats and fed on literally whatever they could find. The living conditions from back then compared to now, aren’t as drastic. But, the gap is still continuing to grow and for as far as we see it, with global warming, the government, pollution, it’s not getting any better anytime soon. The living conditions aren’t the exact same but it’s not completely misleading to say the gap is bigger and still growing wider than what was going on back then. Basically, I’m saying that yes the gap is still huge and growing compared to back then, but I’m also saying that the quality of life, versus wealth by itself and greed are two seperare things in this case.
Also coming back to now, relating back to the people working their asses off for a slack of meat, I want to set an example. A while ago, a girl had died because of the amount of Alanis she consumed. It wasn’t because of the energy drinks though, people don’t usually look past that. I’m focusing on the reason so many were needed. These days, teenagers work hard during and after school on repeat for years on end and only have a few hours of sleep as a break. Of course, the elder also say “there’s no reason for you to be so tired”. High school in this day and age is not the way it used to be 50 years ago. It’s gotten to the point where there’s no such thing as a summer job anymore, just “work after school.” Nowadays it’s the norm for students to have double enrollment, AP classes and multiple jobs even. I understand if someone has a particular goal they want to get to and wish to start young, but what I don’t understand is the need to push such an expectation on those that don’t actually need to do all of this.
Moral of the story: the government is weird.