\u201cTo call a looted country \u2018poor\u2019 is to exonerate the thief.\u201d
\nIn this sentence, \u015eeref O\u011fuz was not targeting a word, but a perception.<\/p>\n
Because \u201cpoverty\u201d is a smokescreen. You can see it but you cannot choose it.
\nBut \u201clooting\u201d leaves a trail. If you follow it, it leads somewhere.<\/p>\n
The story we are told today is simple: Resources are limited, conditions are difficult, the world is bad.
\nBut no one is asking the question:
\nWhy is it that when people sit at the same table, some plates are always full and some are always empty?<\/p>\n
If this country is a house, it is like a house whose door has been broken and the safe emptied.
\nThen someone comes along and says: \u201cThe house was already poor.\u201d
\nNo, no, no. The house wasn't poor. The house was robbed because it was unlocked from the inside.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you say \u201dpoverty\" the crime disappears.
\n\u201cWhen you say \u201dlooting\", the culprit is revealed.<\/p>\n
That is why words are not innocent.<\/p>\n
The language describing the economy today is often more like a lullaby than a fire report.
\nIt makes you sleepy. It calms you. It doesn't make you question.
\nBut there is a fire outside. And some people are still describing the smoke as \u201cweather change\u201d.<\/p>\n
Look around you:
\nThe employee works harder but earns less.
\nProducers produce more but get a smaller share.
\nDespite this, someone is constantly growing, constantly winning.<\/p>\n
Is this a coincidence?
\nOr is it a well-designed direction?<\/p>\n
The economy is sometimes like a river.
\nIn the natural course of things, everyone finds a sip of water.
\nBut if the bed of the river is changed, the water remains the same; it just changes direction.
\nAnd one day you realize that the river is now only watering certain gardens.<\/p>\n
That is exactly the point:
\nIs the water low or is the direction wrong?<\/p>\n
Of course, not every problem is \u201clooting\u201d.
\nBut it is not innocent to explain everything as \u201cfate\u201d.<\/p>\n
Because what you call fate is often a script whose author is hidden.<\/p>\n
Perhaps the most dangerous thing today is not poverty;
\nnormalization of poverty.<\/p>\n
Convincing people to live with less.
\nQuestioning less, demanding less.<\/p>\n
And finally internalizing this sentence:
\n\u201cThank God for that.\u201d<\/p>\n
But perhaps the real question is this:
\nWhat do we have to be grateful for, what do we have to question?<\/p>\n
This country may be poor.
\nBut if he is poor, there is a story.
\nAnd that story was written.<\/p>\n
Question:
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