whilst we live in a monetary based capitalist social system why would i give my money away?
Oh, don't worry, your position is very clear. When reading your posts the terms "champagne socialist", "limousine liberal" and "caviar communist" come to mind. Are you related to or on a first name basis with Russell Brand?
You cant blame people operating the way they do within a system designed to operate that way.
Exactly. So why be so critical of Trump then and start this thread in the first place? He's just operating within the free market system and has been personally successful doing so. He didn't create the system and millions of people have been lifted out of poverty thanks to capitalism. Why do you think for generations millions have left the third world to go to capitalist countries? In order to spread socialism? Ha! No, because they know the opportunities and standard of living for the majority living in capitalist countries far exceed those in controlled economies. Are there excesses at times? Sure. It's cyclical. But it isn't just banks and businessmen but more dangerously governments which are guilty of overreach, corruption and despotism. And history shows over and over again that the most criminal and bloodstained governments in the history of the world had the word "socialist" somewhere in their name along with false promises of utopia.
I have a family, i have commitments...
So what? Trump has a family and commitments too. So do many members of the 1% and the 99%.
...i require money to provide for them.
You know yourself that you don't need money to provide for them. You could easily make do with a subsistence lifestyle; perhaps even as part of a commune which shares your ideology. But instead you elect to pour your time and energy redoing a McMansion hoping to flip it for a big profit and then come on PF and start moaning how men like Trump really chap your hide and so somehow a rickety old white socialist like Bernie Sanders would make America great again. LOL! You just can't make this stuff up! LOL!
Its the system thats at fault not the individual.
There is nothing wrong with the system itself. The system was created by individuals over millennia. It's tried and tested and it is what works.
The truth is it's a problem for easily distracted work-shy individuals who desperately want a life of perpetual leisure and resent having to hustle to get it. It's also a problem for those who are conflicted with having middle class guilt but genuinely fear slipping back into the lower orders of society. So they advocate for "socialism" in the hope governments will only go for the most wealthy in society rather than themselves.
You need to realize though that people like you will always be stuck in the middle. Governments will always tax the largest social class out there and either pass the benefits off to the very poor or the very rich.
I am forced to be a slave for economic gain.
See above answers.
However, i am quite effective at making money as it happens.
Effective but not successful. That's the motto of a slacker and not that of a "slave to the system." That's why you envy Trump.
What fundamental change would me volunteering for work in a third world country bring to society?
I'm sure the great social justice warriors and now legends like Mahatma Gandhi and Rosa Parks also had their own doubts as they pondered what fundamental change they could make in the face of adversity.
Nonetheless they were the agents of change of their day and didn't sit on the sidelines waiting for others to start a grass roots movement first.
So you shouldn't see putting your socio-economic creed into action first hand as an act of volunteerism. That sounds so short term and too half-hearted. You need to be in it to win it. Working in exchange for food for example would demonstrate that money is not needed to be a productive and contributing member of society. I'm sure someone like yourself who said he is otherwise effective at making money could easily find other ways to barter or use methods from your so-called "Natural Law Resource Based Economy."
But as it stands now third world countries lack what first world countries enjoy such as economic opportunities, social mobility, etc. Obviously for you that is "the system's fault." But you said you have an alternative answer and you can show third worlders this by your own example that a person doesn't need money and can even migrate from rather than to a capitalist country and still have a good if not better life elsewhere. You can also show them (and teach your family a good social justice lesson as well) that there is nothing wrong with white folk being a minority group and doing work at the very bottom of society if necessary. That's where the grass roots are anyway.
You have a golden opportunity right now to be your own agent of change. So don't wait for the first world to change. Grab your maypole and family and show the world that change is possible. Heck, you may even witness in your own lifetime the first world shedding their wicked ways and following the model you set up elsewhere. As you know some people need to see it first before they can believe it. And you can make it so. Like the American pop singer and uberwealthy one-worlder Michael Jackson said
"If you wanna make the world a better place...Take a look at yourself, and then make a change...Yeah! - Make that change!"Im not a socialist as such...
Yeah and like most middle class Brits you all still have the bad habit of wanting to drop the word in conversations to sound a little bit edgy but qualify it so you don't look foolish and off-putting now that the word has become so tainted.
But sometimes you just can't help yourself like when you started this thread:
Would be great to see Sanders get in.
In fact, I'd say you are even more of a socialist than good ole' Bernie.
Just look at the demographics of where you and him have preferred to live:
State of Vermont, USA: census.gov/quickfacts/table/PST045215/50
95.0% White
Republic of Poland: Virtually 100% White
Now compare that to Trump's New York: census.gov/quickfacts/table/PST045215/36
70.4% White
Anyway, your kind talk and talk and talk of wanting a revolution but conveniently its only after your own jobs and pensions are secure but never before your own children finish their public schooling and land top jobs in top professions and get choice property in the most desirable (i.e., gentrified) areas.
Funny how this idle talk carries on generation after generation after generation.
Right, OK, I know your answer: 'It's "the system's" fault!'
By the way how does your economic slavery compare to that of someone living and working outside of it? Let's say you compare your plight to some local from Bolivia, Zimbabwe and North Korea.