Failure Of Success

What constitutes Success and Happiness

Success constitutes power and the availability of wealth. And happiness constitutes success.

This is the general philosophy of today's capitalist world, and not only the philosophy of businessmen, but also of the employed. So let us have a deeper look at what the general components of success and happiness constitute:

Wealth

The reason for the want of wealth, is obviously a desire for a better lifestyle and more comfort. This is the commonsense answer, but is it really why we crave for wealth? Maybe not. Despite all of the innovations that have greatly improved our lifestyle and increased our comfort, we still crave for more and more.

This can be explained away with the mention of human nature by saying that the want of humans is never satisfied and we want ever more. This may be partially true.

But how can this explain behaviour such as - The tendency to wear expensive clothes that may look good, but are not half as comfortable as cheaper ones, the tendency to spend on lifestyle products to create an image that is perceived as high class at the cost of comfort, affordability, convenience etc.

Market research has revealed that consumers, besides seeing the quality of the product also look at its price, and to generally conclude that a costlier an item is the better it is going to be. How can this be explained.

The reason people behave in this manner is that:

The motive is not to have as much wealth as possible, the motive is to have more wealth than the rest.

Having made this conclusion, let us look at the other aspect of success:

Power

Power is the ability to change the world, shape it and rule parts of it. More often then not the 'world' consists of people. For one person, 'A' to be powerful, many need to be less powerful than A. So again we can conclude that:

The desire for power, is the desire to be able to control people, and hence, to have more power than they have.

Conclusion

Now we have arrived at the following conclusions about the two elements of modern success and happiness:

• The motive is not to have as much wealth as possible, the motive is to have more wealth than the rest.
• The desire for power, is the desire to be able to control people, and hence, to have more power than they have.

This means that everybody cannot be happy and successful at the same time, because for one person to be happy (ie. having more wealth and power) others need to be unhappy (ie. having less wealth and power). Thus the modern idea of Success and Happiness is flawed and can never be attained.

Thus the definition of success and happiness in society needs to be changed. This calls for revolution and rebellion!! It is my belief that this can be achieved with the abolishment of capitalism, the core evil of this time.

It is my belief that capitalism is the root cause of this problem, and thus it needs to be changed.