Vapouround magazine Special Issue 02 | Page 92

F E AT U R E “in our economy, the richest 1% own half of our economic system’s wealth, so would you say that it is an accurate portrayal of caring and choosing to share from the ability to care? With such a disparity in monetary gains, is this a is far more important than the altruistic expression of actually sharing - it depends on many complicated factors, while these very factors do not, by any means, need to be complicated at all, in any way. However, those who are chosen for others to share with typically depends on mainly the calculation of an individual’s/ group’s expression of how much obedience and conformity they adhere to - ask someone living on the streets with nowhere to sleep but the cosy city feel like enough people are expressing how much they truly care by the quality of their sharing abilities? One can only theorize how they’ll respond, yet I’m sure many would not be too grateful. However, sociologically theorizing and then eventually try to change how badly the sharing system is determined by the practices of our current economic status - in which our capitalist culture consists of a small percentage of the wealthiest people owning most of the resources that many other more desperate people may need to survive. The wealthiest are the healthiest because so many of the wealthy share amongst the other wealthiest others. Therefore, in our economy, the richest 1% own half of our economic system’s wealth, so would you say that it is an accurate portrayal of caring and choosing to share from the ability to care? With such a disparity in monetary equal sharing? Oh wait, here comes the argument that the man sleeping in the gutter could simply get a job and hopelessly wait for all those helpful leftovers from that trickle-down economics that some believe to be so advantageous. In fact, 90 VAPOUROUND MAGAZINE USA the wealthiest will attempt to persuade the populace that this is the only way for Americans to function properly. Sharing is indeed caring. However, we must ask ourselves, what exactly does our capitalist culture tend to care about more so than anything else? I would say the answer is...money, more money, and the most money is what all capitalists economies among the hegemonic nations of the world seem to care for most and you can bet on it that no one is sharing with those who tend to often disagree with the concept that money is to be worshiped. Therefore, in correlation to our innovative, and power-gaining Vaping movement is unlike any one “social cause” we have witnessed in the past, even in the technologically advanced 21st Century. Vapers tend to share with one another quite a bit. This is because