The exercising of power follows regular patterns.

  
The exercising of power follows regular patterns. – And power is based on money. And this game requires moral and legal guidelines. Why?

The basic principle is a simple one. Every healthy human being wants to live. In order to live, you first have to survive a variety of threats. And that takes certain resources, for example physical protection from hostile attacks and an education adequate to one’s life situation. Social skills. A young adult must learn how to navigate with confidence through the seas of human society. And how to accept limits. Each human being is in competition with others. This is necessary for their personal development, to establish themselves in their environment. On the other hand, in the event of success, it leads to an accrual of influence, money and power. At a certain stage, a threshold is reached, beyond which money and power become ends in themselves, become more important than working on a service or a product. Then workers and means of production are there only to secure ever higher earnings and a whole range of marketing strategies are employed to achieve ever greater success. Even legislation and jurisdiction now work in favour of the company. A free, totally unbridled economy can make captains of industry uncrowned kings even in a democratic system. These individuals’ spheres of influence can grow to such an extent that they are in a position to influence opinion-forming processes through the media and thus gain access to political power. Someone who has come this far will not always be able to resist the temptation of using their wealth to secure power. Money corrupts.

Hardly anything goes without money. Nobody can live entirely without money. In our society with its divisions of labour, money is indispensable to obtain the bare necessities of life. Employees are dependent on regular salary payments by their employers. It goes without saying that such a dependence on money creates vulnerabilities and that money can be used to force people to perform unethical tasks and work under inhuman conditions. Ultimately, it is the will to survive that creates the conditions in which humans can be “bought”. As soon as a state is too weak to implement its laws, mafia-like structures will fill the power vacuum, rendering the state unable to fulfil its duty of ensuring its citizens’ welfare. And turning the legal principle by which all citizens are equal before the law into lip service only. States that are unable to guarantee their citizens the protection of the law are equally unable to ensure the observance of human rights on their territory.

Only a modern state with democratic checks and balances and the will and power to implement its own laws is in a position to ensure the observance of human rights.