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Originally Posted by Charlatan
While I can completely appreciate where you are coming from with this, I just can help feeling that it sounds extremely condescending.
What does it mean when you suggest that, "Some people spend their lives as part of the machine never realizing they're nothing more than a cog?" What would you suggest is better than being a "cog" and what form would this take in daily life?
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What I meant by it is that every human being has the potential to be the agent for great change, to leave the world in a better place than they left it, but that too many never realize their potential.
Corporations don't exist for the betterment of society. They exist to create wealth for themselves. That's fine. People who work for those corporations fool themselves if they believe they are working for the greater good. They're working to create wealth for the corporation. If at any moment they cease to create wealth for the corporation, they are let go. This is what I mean by calling them cogs in the machine. If that's their choice, then that's fine for them. It's not fine for me. I firmly believe that by subjugating their lives to the betterment of an entity that does not reciprocate, they are denying their ability to truly contribute their true worth to humanity.
My belief is that some people do this and feel helpless to change. Other people do this and do it happily. While still others never even give it a thought.