Being a young person myself, angry about capitalism and how it turns everything, people included, into mere commodities, I find myself fascinated by the idea of socialism. I consider countries in Western Europe that have embraced it, and how they suffer from far less economic inequalities than the US, and of course, us, South Africa. I wonder what is it they are doing right that we are not.
Vietnam might not be in an ideal situation according to TrΓ’m, but for some of us, seeing the skyscrapers rising from the ground in Johannesburg doesnβt make us giddy because our lives and incomes are not rising with it. We donβt feel like we are any better off. We see gentrification revamping parts of our cities, and ask ourselves how soon before these places β the hipster joints, and such β become inaccessible to us, as capitalism rampages on and on.