janestarz | Weird thoughts about the world

There was a night a week or two back when I couldn't sleep and a weird thought popped up in my head. I've been mulling it over and I don't know what exactly to do with it, so here you go. Let's discuss.

The way I view the world right now is as follows: there's a lot of people in the "working class" and then there's people who work, but have so much money they need to find alternative ways to spend it and keep it. This "rich elite", if you will, invests their money, stowes it away, and they pay taxes over it and it becomes, in a way, more money. I was thinking about this rich elite. Most of the rich elite keep their money where they can see it, invest with a local company and don't go abroad with it. They take little chance and basically pay someone to keep track of their virtual sock of money.
But I also think there's a small portion of really rich people (possibly in very influential positions), managing a lot of money (or a company's money) and they decide where they invest and/or where their company invests.

We've been having economic struggles and because we live in a small global village and we have an information overload, everyone can know what the other countries have been dealing with. I feel the general vibe of the world right now is that "Things are not going well."
The "working class" have been voting left-wing, they have been voicing their opinions, maybe even participating in some protest or other and their efforts have been noted in the news. What they're saying is "we want more jobs" but nobody is really listening to what they're saying.
The politicians have to listen to what the working class says, because they know these are the majority of the voters, but the politicians don't see a way out. Things have to get better economically, before they can change laws and benefits. You can't spend money you don't have (and Europe is watching over our shoulders so we make sure the deficit is in check).

The people who are watching the news and do have the money to change this (by investing money, creating new jobs etc.) are only watching the news for the highlights. All the buzz is saying is "things are not going well" and their natural response is to hold on to the money and invest conservatively (low-risk).

And now for the scary thought. What if this rich elite needs to believe things are going well before they invest sensibly in world-building projects again? What if what they need is a right-wing government, a feeling of general wellbeing in the state of the world to release their hold on things. If our economy is mostly based on the investments of a few very wealthy and very powerful people, how can we expect things to change?
And I don't know if all these thoughts are just sleep-deprived paranoia or based on actual fact, but it is a scary thought.

My stepbrother works with Tesla and because things work that way, I started paying attention to Tesla and its founder, Elon Musk. Born in South-Afrika and of Canadian-American descent, went to university. He wanted to make paying money on the internet safer, so he founded Paypal. He wanted to make travel to space cheaper and more accessible, so he founded Space X. And Tesla is just one of his many success stories.
We already had the know-how - we knew how to make electric cars, it just wasn't a very practical concept yet - we just needed someone to believe in the concept and invest money.
Elon Musk does more than just invest. He looks outside pretty much all the boxes. The advancements that have been made in battery technology just because they were building electrical cars are pretty wonderful, and now they are also developing the "Tesla Powerwall" -- a battery that can be charged by solar panels and store electricity to use when the sun isn't shining. It's a big step towards sustainable use of energy.

So here we have a society that's pretty much scared of its own shadow, and on the other hand there are massively wealthy people like Elon Musk, who use their money to build their dreams.

Frankly, I'd like to see more of Elon Musk -- and I hope people will take him as an example. But truth be told, I'm tired of whining. I'm sick of people pointing fingers and saying what's wrong with the world. What I would want is for people to look at bright things, happiness, to have hope and to find beauty in every day. And if your life is dull and dreary or if you have problems, that you can still find joy in every day.