95% sure I'm staying here

I believe I am now about 95% sure that I'm staying here. This is our home now and good or bad, we'll have to fight our own battles. Read about the rise in British gas bills up to 200 pounds...yeah, I remember what it was like. When petrol prices were raised, there was a strike involving truckers causing chaos up to the French borders but a year later, petrol prices went higher than what it was.

That is the British Capitalist system where the rich gets richer and the poor gets poorer. Up to 90% of the nation's wealth is in the hands of 10% of the population. That was my exact query when we were having a lecture on Malaysia's Vision 2020...how can we implement a Capitalist system that from its basis is all about making profit and human problems and issues become secondary? How can such a system become fair and equitable?

Sometimes I wonder whether the people in the developing countries are even clear about the principles of the Capitalist economic system and if they do know about scarcity and unsatieable wants, do they even question these basic principles? Is scarcity true? Can we say that the resources of this world is finite when from our own Aqeedah, it is Allah SWT who provides for us? Can we say that a human being's wants are endless and so, we need to produce more stuff to fulfil the human wants? Even if we agree that the human being will always want more...as our Prophet SAW says as narrated by Anas "If the son of Adam had a valley full of gold, he would like to have two, for nothing fills his mouth except dust. And Allah forgives him who repents to Him.”

So, okay..human beings are never satisfied but does that mean the economic system should be designed to produce more and more to fulfil the desires of human beings. If a child wants ice-cream, should we design an ice-cream machine that will give him ice-cream 24 hours a day? or do we have an economic system that fulfils the basic needs of everyone, provide food, clothing and shelter and then allow the people to have luxurious items according to their means.

We need to know that not everything that originates from the West is good; and certainly, the Western economic system is a man-made system. Any man-made system is bound to have flaws, biasness and potentially oppressive.