Social Disorder

What did you do for Ancient Chinese Philosophy today?

For today, I tried to ponder on the discussion earlier about the social disorder.

What idea did you encounter that turned out meaningful?

In earlier's discussion about social disorder, I remembered the quotation that said "The problems before are still a problem today". The problems that was faced by Confucius' time like the increasing poverty of peasants despite their overtime work and political disorder are still present today. For example, the increasing poverty rate despite the overtime work, in our country, the most tiresome work like farming gets low income compared to office workers. In the Ancient China, the ones in position are the one who takes all the income worked hard by the farmers, for example, yet what they only do is supervise the work and count the earned money. During the Spanish era here in the Philippines, those farmers even do not receive the right amount or any amount as payment. This problem is also evident in today's economic situation. Offices and other establishments follow the minimum wage set by the government which do not create much injustice, but those works related to farming are different. Landowners tries to take advantage of their workers by decreasing their wages and even delaying it. Worst cases are these farmers are only given goods that do not really equate to their allotted or minimum wages. Even if these workers work 24/7, with the presence of their greedy landowner, the poverty rate will really continue to increase.

In the issue of political disorder, I would tackle more on the so-called "political dynasty". In the ancient times, those families who are of noble kind has the privilege to hold a certain office and these government servers may also be of the same family creating a political dynasty. Some of the noble persons like Confucius may be removed from the office of he may not be part of the family. This is still present today but these families are more greedy of power that even though they are not capable of seating in a high position, because of their family name, they are and will be good for the society. These greedy men will ought to replace the real noble men just for power to remain in them.