3 This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all. The hearts of people, moreover, are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterward they join the dead. Ecclesiastes 4:3

People on the top of the financial world say the issue with society is people on the bottom being lazy, people on the bottom say the issue is with greedy people on the top keeping the little man down. I am realizing, both are absolutely true. The minimum wage world is incapable of supporting a family. Minimum wage isn't meant to support a family and the only way you can actually get a job above minimum wage is to either do internships or know someone in a business. You can break out of that with an incredible amount of work, but it is near impossible unless you're a drive person who is slightly crazy. On the top, the cost of living is going up so much every year because of people looking for ways to earn more money. Replaceable parts in cars, appliances, and most everything are becoming virtually non-existence. in the 70's the deconstruction of appliances began with several manufacture made their goods too fixable and durable so people started buying less, since everyone fixed what they had. There were engineers hired to basically make expiration dates on machines so people would have to buy more later, this expanded the market, but made living more expensive.

Cars are progressively made to where it is near impossible to work on with every year they're intentionally made more complicated and more expensive to replace parts. The issue with this is that it is unsustainable. The amount of imported products that almost immediately go to the dump is impossible to keep up. There are two sides of the financial spectrum heading towards each other that eventually will hit head on causing a massive, essentially, explosion. Both sides are completely true, people who control the cost of manufacturing are greedy and milking people for profit and a lot of people on the bottom really are lazy and not seeking a way to break out of the sad cycle they are in. There is a spiritual crisis on both ends causing this. On the top there is a rampant greed looking out how to benefit themselves and on the bottom they are looking for a way to benefit themselves without actually working. Neither end is more to blame than the other.

In politics, they look at gas prices, cost of living, and the welfare state and blame all of it as the issue. They say, " once we fix these issues, it will be fine." the problem is we don't need good laws to restrain us from evil people, we need good people to restrain us from bad laws, since once you loose god, government becomes the messiah we look towards, since it is the next most tangible power you can see. You begin to place your hope, you life, your salvation in this massive legislative system that is never going to actually be able to produce a salvation on this earth. We are pointing everywhere saying this or that is the issue, when in reality the finger points straight at us, since we are allowing a madness to brew in our hearts increasing our greed. Government policies are created by men, created by you, by me, by the culture we perpetuate. Salvation and change in this earth comes when our hearts are changed, transplanted, by Jesus and for once, we can point the finger at ourselves and genuinely begin to change what we love, what we pursue. For the first time life will not be about us, but about giving a sacrificial love we are filled with.

In our hearts is a madness that is going to grow, we are going to seek how we can benefit ourselves before our hearts are changed. We will never be satisfied with it, since it is all a game of gaining more money, sex, and status. You are either dealing with reality or numbing yourself to stay out of reality and your heart. The game will numb you until it all shatters and you have all of reality sitting on you and you're suffocating and loosing your sanity.

14 There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth: the righteous who get what the wicked deserve, and the wicked who get what the righteous deserve. This too, I say, is meaningless. 15 So I commend the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany them in their toil all the days of the life God has given them under the sun.

16 When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the labor that is done on earth—people getting no sleep day or night— 17 then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they know, they cannot really comprehend it. Ecclesiastes 8:14-15

Basically, i would go insane, kind of like solomon did, since he saw all these things going on around him and he resolved that it was all absurd and you just sit through it until death. The thing i don't really think he understood, since he asked for wisdom, not relationship with god, was how everything we do has weight in eternity. I see all of this, but am mostly powerless to change it all, but my portion is enjoy what God has given me, do what i know is right and try to change what i can, but this is all in God's hands and i am willing to do whatever he sees fit for me to do, but that is all i can do. God is sovereign and i am willing to play whatever part he wants me to, that is my lot, that is my portion. my salvation is in him and that is enough.