People, Wake Up: You Are Not the Priority, Profits Are

For far too long, the people have been living under the illusion that governments are there to serve, protect, and uplift them. 

That illusion is what keeps societies docile, hopeful, and distracted, but the hard, unapologetic truth is this, you are not the priority, Profits are.

Look around, every policy, every “initiative,” every so-called development project is not designed with the people’s wellbeing at the center. 

It’s designed to feed corporations, enrich elites, and maintain a system where money flows upward while the majority are left scrambling, overworked, and underpaid.

If governments truly had people at heart, there wouldn’t be endless taxes while wages stagnate. 

There wouldn’t be billion-dollar bailouts for corporations while ordinary families can’t afford groceries. 

There wouldn’t be constant new laws and restrictions choking the everyday citizen while the rich buy their way out of accountability.

Instead, you see governments working hand in hand with banks, pharmaceutical giants, energy conglomerates, and tech monopolies. 

The agendas they push are rarely about health, freedom, or sustainability.

They’re about profit margins, shareholder returns, and political kickbacks.

This is why wars are started and sustained,  not for peace, but for profit. 

This is why “climate solutions” are turned into billion-dollar industries, not for healing the Earth, but for monetizing crises. 

This is why education, healthcare, and housing are treated as markets, not human rights, because your struggle is their paycheck.

And yet, the people continue to vote, obey, and hope, clinging to the false promise that maybe next time, maybe the next leader, maybe the next election will bring change. 

But change does not come from those already invested in keeping the system exactly as it is.

You cannot expect compassion from a machine designed for profit.

The truth is uncomfortable, but it is liberating, the system is not broken. 

It is working exactly as designed, to benefit the few at the expense of the many. 

The sooner people realize this, the sooner they can reclaim their power and stop outsourcing their futures to governments and corporations that see them only as statistics, consumers, and taxable units.

It’s time to wake up, It’s time to stop expecting empathy from profit-driven machines, It’s time to prioritize ourselves, because clearly, they never will.