Fear

Today, the top 1% of the global population own $38.7 trillion in wealth. This is 43-47.5% of all global wealth owned by 1% of the global population. Yet, an industry wide strike could be very effective in forcing this to change. I am not blaming anyone for working. I am discussing an interesting societal phenomenon in most societies.

Convincing everyone who makes less than than say 100,000 dollars a year to not show up for work would not be easy. Refusing to work can be difficult in and of itself. The emotion of fear affects people’s behaviors more than vast inequality, it would seem.

This is interesting because it doesn’t follow. Nonsequiter thinking often occurs when we are stuck in “emotion mind” and not “logic mind.” Per Dialectic Behavior Theory, there are two types of thinking, or “minds”: “logic mind” and “emotion mind.” We need both. But, when we get stuck in emotion mind, our logic mind can be skewed.

I believe that this is what may be happening in capitalistic society. The rich will keep getting richer, and the poor will continue to struggle to survive in capitalist, and to some extent, all, societies.

Do you think the reason that, in America, at least, the public school curriculum does not include any type of DBT is to keep people in emotion mind so that they will continue to work low-income jobs? Comment yes or no and why.