We ALL deserve a good life (not just 800 greedy f*cks)

Musings on wealth disparity, social conditioning, and the lies we’re told about who “deserves” a good life

I had always been aware that there was an Us vs. Them kind of thing when it came to money. I saw it in the wealthy area where I grew up, I saw it when I worked in local government where NIMBY (not in my backyard) was an everyday reality, and I saw it in the world as we were fed the propaganda that nobody had it as good as we did in the United States. 

But it took a series of true Tower moments in my life for me to fully acknowledge what was happening (and what had been happening) to those of us who were being left behind. 

When things began to crumble

It was 2021, the world was still fighting Covid. My mom suffered a series of strokes that forced her final months to be spent in long term nursing care, causing my dad’s Alzheimer's to accelerate at an alarming rate. In addition to juggling care for aging parents, my family had recently relocated due to an extremely stressful corporate reconsolidation, which left my husband working ridiculous hours and still worrying about his job.

One weekend morning, we escaped to the beach for an early walk and coffee. As we stood there, feet in the sand, letting the waves crash around us, I looked at my husband and said "What the fuck are we doing all of this for?”

The realization that we’d been sold a lie

We had done everything right. Went to school, got jobs, married, had kids. We bought a home and worked hard for our respective employers. Yet here we were. Still stressed and worried. Hoping we survived another round of layoffs, living far away from family, and still struggling. No matter how hard we tried, we were never getting ahead. And I was really really tired of running on someone else's treadmill and getting nowhere. 

And we aren’t the only ones

I also realized that we were far from alone. There were millions like us. Which made me ask myself, why do 800 greedy fucks get to live their best lives and the rest of us have to suffer?? Why are parents terrified of losing SNAP benefits to feed their kids while some asshole throws a $10 billion wedding?

Why do some get all and most get none??? Fuck that.

We deserve better. All of us.

Not just here in the States, but worldwide. There is absolutely no excuse for people to go hungry or homeless. For someone not to get the medical care they need. To not have access to education, to art, to music. 

We all deserve all of the good things before anyone deserves a freakin’ yacht.

Deciding to do something about it

I was angry, tired, and sick of playing by the rules of a game I didn’t want to play in the first place. So I decided to fight back. One spell, one act of service, one kindness at a time.

For decades, I had used my magic and witchcraft practice to help my family through hard times—I used it to get jobs, find a new house, get a new car when our old one finally gave out—but what would happen if I used it to really make a difference? Not just for me, but for all the others out there just like us? 

Yes, I would add intentions for health to the meal I was preparing and I would send protection energy to my kids when they went to school. But what if I cast that spell wider? What if I could manifest affordable healthcare for my neighbors? What if I could protect marginalized communities? What if I had help doing it? 

Our anger is energy

I know that others feel the same frustration. The same rage. I see it in the people who show up to protest, who post online, who attend my community intention circles. 

The anger isn't going away. It shouldn't. Anger is just energy, raw and powerful. But we've been told to suppress it, to be civil about things, to channel our “displeasure” into voting once every four years and then shutting up about it. Because angry people cause disruption. And billionaires don’t like disruption, especially when it could threaten their money. 

Well that’s just too fucking bad.

Combining that energy can change things

So I'm calling in every witch, every tarot reader, every person who believes in manifestation and intention. I'm calling in the skeptics who are just so exhausted that they're willing to try anything. I'm calling in anyone who looks at the news and thinks "this isn't right". Because it's NOT right.

We’re not buying “that’s just the way it is” any longer

The ultra-rich don't just have more money than us. They've rigged the entire system so they never face consequences. They crash the economy? Bailout. They poison our water? A fine so small that it’s pocket change to them. They exploit workers? Oh well, that's just capitalism. Meanwhile, someone steals food to feed their kids, they’re arrested immediately and serving 3-5 years. 

We're told there's no money for universal healthcare, but somehow there's always money for another yacht, another private jet, another vacation home. Shit, one of them closed down an entire city just to have the world’s tackiest wedding!

The math isn’t mathing

We're told we can't afford to raise the minimum wage, but CEOs are making 400 times what their workers make. We're told to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps while they're cutting the straps and selling them for profit.

And when we protest? When we organize? When we demand better? We're told we're being divisive. We're being unrealistic. We need to be more reasonable and work across the aisle. 

You know what's unreasonable? Children going hungry in the wealthiest nation on earth. People dying because they can't afford insulin. Families losing everything because someone got sick. That's what's fucking unreasonable.

Blending magic and collective action for amplified impact

So here's what I'm doing and I hope you want to do it with me. 

I’m adding magic to my activism and calling in others who are doing the same. Because I believe channeling our individual magic towards collective intentions is the fastest path to change. After all, if we weren’t exponentially more powerful when we come together, they wouldn’t spend so much energy trying to keep us divided.

This isn't about hexing billionaires (though I'm not saying don't do that on your own time). This is about using our collective power - magical and mundane - to create the world we actually want to live in.

We’re done asking nicely.

We're done hoping someone else will fix this. We're done playing by rules designed to keep us powerless.

We're not waiting for permission. We're not waiting for the "right time." We're not waiting for someone to save us (because nobody is.)

We're the ones we've been waiting for.

And honestly? I'm done being polite about it.