Where Is Our Robin Hood?

In today’s society its all about control and dictatorship, it doesn’t matter if you think we live in a free society or not, the fact of the matter is that we are controlled by the rules and walls that govern us and no matter who we vote into power things don’t really change, perhaps someone we don’t see is really pulling the strings.

The poor get poorer and the rich….. well you know the rest!

Money dictates how we live our life, what we do and how we survive. It restricts us and in a way it can define us with relation to how giving we can be towards Nobel causes.

So where is our Robin Hood to stave off excessive fuel prices in the petrol stations, or take on the giants that withhold electric and gas unless we pay extortionate prices. What about food and the cost of living, in an ever increasingly difficult world. We are by no means suffering in comparison to what some people have to endure in this world, in fact compared to third world countries we, ourselves would be considered rich, so are we greedy for wanting more?

No, I don’t think we are, its not greed to want a better life for you or your family and lets face it money, the controller, the dictator is what limits us in our ability to evolve as human beings. But this thing we call money which the government and powers that be use to control us, they are numbers, they mean nothing really, only we place value on those numbers because society conditions us to. When a company makes millions every day how does that change anything, it only adds a few more numbers to a balance sheet, or a computer program running a bank. Its not like the old days where you would barter with live stock because you needed something which someone else had.

Our need for money holds us back, it controls the lifestyle we live.

However, the fact is that this is how our society has evolved unless we all made it change then nothing ever will. Nothing can change because humanity is selfish, if you owned a business you wouldn’t give your things away, and if you didn’t need to work because food, water, electric etc was readily available and free, then chances are most people would simply do nothing but then again that is what a fair few draining the countries fictional numbers (money) do. As a world we need to evolve beyond selfish greed to control and dominate.

I digress a little……

If we are to live by numbers, we are to pay by numbers and die by numbers, then there are things we can do to regain a little power. Stop using some of the bigger players or related companies until their prices come down, if they are not making money then they have no choice but to become more competitive. Imagine if we stopped using a whole chain of companies of companies like BP, if they are not selling their petrol they will go under and so we take control in refusing to hand over our hard earned numbers (money) until it becomes more affordable. The same could be done for large supermarkets, stop using them and revert back to the local traders, the market traders, the people who it benefits the most because with our obsession for retail parks, shopping malls and 24 hour large supermarkets this is what is killing independent traders who buy produce locally, get our farms working again and stop relying on the EU to pay our farmers not to farm. Keep abusing your local councils to make parking near down and city/town centres FREE, this is one of the main reasons people go to retail parks and such and thats because it costs them nothing to park. We could even grow our own!

Lets bullet point:-

• Boycott one large petrol manufacturer and retailer for 6 months, 12 months or more. If they are not making money they will need to become cheaper to get people in.
• School projects could be to farm and grow produce to resell locally, keeps the money local for the school whilst educating the kids to grow.
• Use local farmers for meat and dairy products. There are plenty around who you can buy direct from, in fact buying half a pig (which they butcher for you) and freezing it will save you money.
• Use local market traders for fruit, veg, other meat and fish produce, keeps local people in business and employment whilst keeping the money local.
• Move to one supplier across the country for gas and electric (everyone) other suppliers would have no choice to cut their prices because they are simply not making money with no customers otherwise.

Doing this will hit the bigger brands where it matters for them, doing this allows us to gain some control over what we pay or at least who we pay it to and which outside country gets our numbers (money), in essence we are our own Robin Hood, we just need to step up!