The reason it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven, is because the rich man can never leave the "system" that has afforded him the luxury of being rich.
Nor can he stand the idea of ever having to be truly "equal" with the rest of "the vulgar herd" of humanity.
So he does everything in his power to prevent such a possibility from happening. For "if it once became general," as George Orwell wrote, "wealth would confer no distinction."
With religion, they even fashion slogans like, "the poor you will always have with you," as Jesus is alleged to have said, as if even God is admitting there's just nothing we can do to end poverty around the world. So we'll just have to accept it.
Such an idea is designed to alleviate the guilt of inaction.
With economics, they use the poor as a stick and the rich as a carrot, as a constant threat or a bribe, to increasingly belabor that beast of burden we call the middle class, upon who's shoulders rests the weight of the wealth and pleasure of the rich. And to hold up the illusion of that wealth and pleasure, they are forced to trample all those below into hell.
And to defend the illusions they sell us, that serve no other interest more than their own, we gladly die a thousand deaths, with the songs of true believers on our lips, and our hands wrapped around someone's throat.
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