open your eyes

Some people would consider me to be wasting my time talking to myself, but i think it is just more private on here than a diary or journal.  Its a really good place to rant about the injustices in the world, the horrors, the accepted things that make me want to cry.
Am  I powerless?  Pretty much. 
My children are inheriting the world I allowed to come into existence--I had my eyes closed, I was so focused on my little world I didn't see the crap the power-mongers were doing.
The 2-bit pimps are now sex-traffickers, and no one is touching them.
Where pitiful women with no self-esteem were degraded for money and a supply of drugs, children/teens/women from countries and places with no rights, no worth are sold to the highest bidder.
While our prisons fill up with drug addicts and desperate poor people, the powerful are given a free pass to do what they will--drugs that aren't safe passed to allow pharmaceutical companies to make more money, banks allowed to launder crime money--with evidence they know that is what it is from, kickbacks, perks, owning politicians to ensure their own not-quite-legal, way not ethical behavior. Fear-ridden fundamentalists that want to run everyone else in the name of their god, while ignoring their own persecution of people different than themselves.
What is the answer?
If everyone looks in the mirror and examines their own morals/ethics/behavior how many of those people would adjust themselves, and how many would shrug and tell themselves they were better than everyone else, more deserving, more justified in taking what is not theirs to take, more capable of deciding for other people what is best for them.  We need to look in the mirror and out at others with the same eyes, with the same expectations.
If you own a business, unless you can do everything in that business alone, you should not make all the money.  If it is your idea, and you don't produce anything except that idea, (how is that different than a one-hit-wonder?) how do the people doing the working not share equally with you.  Not 50% for you and 50% for all of them, but 100 people, 100 equal shares.  Why are people so greedy they want to use other people, profit off of their sweat and tears, steal their time on this earth and wear down their health with the stress of no time for their own dreams, no time for their loved ones, no power over their own lives, not enough money to buy healthy food, live in a safe environment, send their children to schools and activities that will make them better people.
The original goal of public schools was to provide workers for the factories that were literate enough to run the machines and fill out whatever  paperwork was needed.  Isn't it time we educated  with a goal of their own self-satisfaction and not to feed the machinery of the wealthy?
Why, in a country that supposedly has no class system are there ghettos?
Why are the prisons full of the poor and uneducated?
Why are there homeless people in a country where an individual can possess more wealth than a small country?
I would ask those people with small, medium, and large businesses to share fairly with the people that are allowing them to be successful.
I would ask that those corporations share their wealth more evenly with those people that they currently treat like unimportant and interchangeable droids.  One hour in the life of worker is worth as much to them as one hour in the life of a rich man is to him.  We sell our time for money so we can buy what we need.
Those of you that have mistaken money for a scoring system are truly lost.  Life is not a game, and a person that can not see the worth of all life is either asleep--or blind.