A Grape of Righteousness?

I don’t know if this would be a serious solution, but I wanted to have something to look at as ideas surged through my cranium to a boiling point at which I could do nothing else but write. I look around and see the machine at work, where disention is quelled with products to entertain us for a while at best. We are no longer angry because we think we have what we’re looking for, which is always just around the corner. Until then, my Netbook will suffice, or my 24 inch HDTV. As soon as my PS3′s network is fixed, I will get back questing for items in games that have no relevance to my dreams and aspirations.
I look around and see the gross levels of greed around me. My friend worries about getting a bite to eat out when he knows he has to fill the gas for his car. Another sees paying off seven hundred a month for the summer as a drop in the bucket compared to the loans he’s going to incur after being able to fix people’s eyes. I almost want to shout at them, to have them see the error of their ways. “Your money could be used more wisely! Spend it better and help those who are lacking!”
My eyes turn another way, to see drivers reading the paper as their car sits in idle so that the owner may go at a moment’s notice. One man incases his house with bullet-proof windows due to the many heads he had to step on to sit on black wealth. The anger goes to ravishing my body with diet pills and state of the art equipment to make my body as the television envisions it to be. Is this where I want to be? Am I becoming the dream I had as a child, or am I selling out to the “need” that has everyone else rejoicing in my head?
I read that thousands of pigs were slaughtered and the meat wasted to keep prices of pork down. I read of work going unrewarded, of the great waste laid upon a land of plenty so that their prices don’t drop and make ambition meaningless. I see today the wonderful ingenunity of placing items in cans to last many moons, of dried foods that can be preserved to feed millions of starving people. There is greed looming among it. Everything is tainted with a needed selfishness, so that ambitions keeps innovation at a peak. It’s good, and it’s wrong.
I propose to cap how much a person can make. This cap can be removed if whatever surplus the person or company makes hits another theoretical threshold. Money would be doubled. Whatever cap it would be I’d have no idea, but at least this way people would strive to double their money, to take the innitiative to make grand ideas into reality. The surplus would go out to the world, so that we would not have to see the slaughtering of pigs just to keep the prices down, nor would we smell the stench of wasted food rot upon the earth.
I wonder what the world would look like if we were to do this. Greed has produced many good inventions and ideas, while greed has produced much suffering and injustice. Let us stem the tide of the latter, while making as much of the former into actualized reality. Competition needs to stay, but the cries of the injusticed needs to shut up and stay shut up.

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