Do u realise you have the power to change things?

Question

It seems to me that ordinary people are like work slaves with fully loaded machine guns, but they are dragging rocks along the path chosen by a few bossy people who only have sticks to beat us with.

For example: We can get multi-national corporations to change their policies where they cause inequality and abuse. We have the power of where to spend our hard-earned money!

Individually it doesn't amount to much, but if enough of people vote with their money, corporations and governments will listen, cause they depend on each other. Also voting through the ballot box for people with similar inclinations would also help.

What do u think?

Answer 1

At a first glance it seems that there is nothing new about your question - everyone knows this that they can influence corporations and governments; they can make them listen if they act together. But how to get people together; give them a common incentive and build sufficient momentum at an affordable cost in terms of people's time and efforts? It is not easy to mobilise people into a kind of direct action.

The point in your question that is worth noticing is that if you are think like this then there is a strong possibility that there are other people who share your thoughts, and opinion. If this is the case, then their thoughts and opinions must be influencing what they do or decide personally. This gives me a subtle sense that a not very obvious one but slow and gradual change is taking place in our societies. We all have power to change things. This change can be small but it is there. This is how, I believe, we develop and get better at things.

Answer 2

Every individual can change government policies and corporate exploitation by uniting with other people to vote for candidates that are truly for the service of the people. On multi-nationals, every person has the right to protest against any product or service. People has power if there is unity.

Answer 3

i've got self belief human beings thoroughly underestimate their own ability of replace. to the touch a existence, to furnish desire impacts no longer in elementary terms that one guy or woman yet each and every physique they arrive in touch with. yet as quickly as we don't act like the little issues rely we forget of own ability. Volunteering adjustments lives. protecting a door open for somebody. determining on something up that somebody dropped. those are the flaws that make the international extra useful. Even something so elementary as telling a lonely neighbor (which you regularly sidestep) hi will replace their day.

Answer 4

Yes, the people have the power to do a lot of things but I would say that 85% of them are below the adequate intelligence line and as such, they let these corrupt and self-serving politicians run all over them... I am sad to see it happen but I know of NO way to stop it.

Answer 5

YOU know i agree with you totally. BUT let me put it to you this way. DONT you thing sooner or later the big boys fall down> ANOTHER words what goes around comes around? sooner or later? FURTHEr more 3 out of every 4 workers work at small businesses any way in the USA.

Answer 6

nice idea but it'll never work... it's similar to a trade union and they don;t either... so how do you explain the way George W Bush got into office for a second term after all the stuff he did... Oh yes he cheated didn't he thats right...

Answer 7

I think a majority of people just don't care, they go with whatever their government hits them with and thats alright with them. This is what bothers me is really, no one cares. I"m sure they know they can change it,i hope, they just don't care to.

Answer 8

The Supreme Court won't let our votes be counted, so why bother?

Answer 9

I think I sniff multiple entries

Answer 10

I think we should try very hard to go back to when this was really true.