just a thought written to a friend of mine in costa rica

I am going back to college in January to get my next degree, it shouldn't be too long before i have a masters degree!
I love education, but very often i have a problem with how the system of school is designed. I don't believe in failing people, but on the other side of the coin, i feel certain people who work very hard deserve special honors, but usually those honors aren't recognized when people get to the workforce.
What is holding people back, in education, crime, and socio-economic structured divisions, is that money plays more influence in peoples lives than does the important aspects of production. Our civilization is being held back by people who care too much about the monetary value on a service, item, or contract, than the bigger picture. We let ourselves be used by this system because we are ignorant to the idea that something else could work.
I don't want to sound like a socialist. Rather, i think of my ideas something atypical to what we know of. There are some powerful systems of society which are being discussed by younger people these days which are looking to craft a better world than the one we live in. We can't blame ourselves for the system in which we live, however we can blame ourselves in 15 years if we have no objection to how others manage the way we live. We will have no right to complain if we simply go along with what we know, and the system we know of starts to implode in on itself.
Our problem nowadays is the fact that economies cannot exist if pre-existing workforce contributers are continuously taken out of the equation. The reason is, because the idea of consumerism will only be attributed to people who hold an occupation. When the number of employees dwindle, so does the number of products. You cannot sell a surplus of items to a public if they no longer hold jobs.
People seem to be social creatures, but every year the system of business adopts new and creative, deceptive, and manipulative decisions which are designed to boost profits. The human characteristics which define our generosity and positive image are subtracted with each stride, as the business world slowly, but surely manages to bleed dry the middle class, making them less significant. We watch as businesses slowly resemble a pack of wolves, and we, the sheep. We have no choice but to abide by the construct of new businesses like Walmart Supercenters and corporate sites being built in every town. There truly is no stopping the ball from rolling down the hill. Because competitive pricing drives a capitalist market, all the winners are the wealthy, and all the losers are people who cannot keep up with the low cost pricing of these giants of industry.
The producers of most of the worlds' goods are made in China. New technologies had at one time been produced in the U.S., Japan, and some European nations, are now being contracted to China, as producers in the America slowly become obsolete. This dumbs down our education, our freedom to make choices, and will slowly make us meaningless technologically.
There is a philosophical understanding which is the concept of perfection. The insignificant and most humble person realizes their flaws, but realizes the opportunities to become better than what they are. Each hour of every day learns new ways of making themselves better with whatever they do, knowing that perfection cannot be a realization, but subtracting the many imperfections that exist in their life in the attempt to reach it.
Many people do not care to acknowledge the negatives of themselves or the people, the presence, or a particular system/ideology around them. They'd rather use their time to enjoy themselves into oblivion.
If we do however take ourselves and realize our potential, and accomplish one goal. Then tackle another goal which seemed more difficult than the first, eventually we'll step back and see that our human potential is greater than we know. As far I am concerned, we are the universes' only way of understanding itself. There is no better way of making our lives more significant, than to take ourselves beyond which we thought we were capable of.