unethical systems

Most systems turn out to be self-serving and unethical because it is human nature to try to one-up each other; greed is what drives people. These systems may start out with good intentions, but competition with other systems causes the original systems to try to adapt to survive. Humans are self-serving and at many times are unethical. There is nothing that can be done to change this; it has been this way since the beginning of time, beginning with Cain and Abel. For example, many politicians get into politics because they want to “change the way things are going”. But often times, their original purpose is lost in the backstabbing and cheapshot world of politics. To get what they want, they have to strike deals with other politicians, compromising their own ethics. Also, take the utopian experiments in America in the 1800’s. Because these communes held fast to their beliefs and did not try to change and conform, they failed. The notion of free enterprise and capitalism caused these systems to collapse because they did not try to adapt; to appeal to the human side of their inhabitants. The concept of self-success became too enticing. Systems in place tend to be self-serving because in today’s world (and the world of the past), it has been the only sure way to guarantee survival of the system.

People confrom to systems because they believe that they can benefit from the conformity. Systems often end up harmful because people are deceived into believing that they are being provided for, when in many cases does not occur. Systems are started by a group that eventually becomes the elite. These elitists form the system in an attempt to survive competition with other elitists who also want to establish their own systems. Systems may also become "evil" as a result of oblivious participants who do not care about the different parts working together to complete the system. The participants cannot, or will not, acknowledge their participation in another part of the system even though they are responsible. The participants may also be selfish and self-serving, which only contributes to the selfishness and self-serving mentality of the system. The intention behind systems is to include everyone, but often times this does not happen; the rich and powerful hold the power while the masses are held in ignorance, believing that they are also being benefitted by this system. People join systems in order to feel "included", and many times they are; but in most cases, they are left with the illusion that they are included, when in fact they are not.