reading time ~14 mins

1. Introduction
2. War & Aggression
3. Climate Change & Global Warming
4. Corporate Greed
5. Wage Slavery
6. Disability
7. Poverty
8. Lack of Healthcare
9. Social Injustice
10. Economic Injustice
11. Education
12. Consumerism & Capitalism
13. Additional Reading

Introduction

Morality and cowardice cannot coexist

A person who knows what is right, but is cowardly to do something about it, will experience cognitive dissonance

We have created a society where most injustices can only be dealt by the government or big institutes like charities or corporations

The individual is only encouraged to look out for himself, gain wealth, buy products and find ways to entertain himself endlessly 

Every time I find a cause, I cannot do much about it myself. When there is flooding, inflation, gas shortage in cold weather and no way for some people to pay the energy bills, etc. I reach out to government institutes and NGOs to try to help but the response is you sit back. Let us fix it. You just send over some money if possible

If you are starting to think beyond yourself, and want to help humanity, keep reading. One of the issues could be a good place to start

A list of challenges faced by humanity

War & Aggression

1. Nuclear war is the greatest threat to the human species 
2. Humanity must implement universal nuclear disarmament (UN Nuclear disarmament)
3. There are ~100 million forcibly displaced refugees in the world due to unjust wars and aggression (UNHCR Refugee Statistics) 
4. People from different racial/ethnic backgrounds are treated differently in wars (e.g. Russian aggression in Ukraine is covered much more by the media than Israeli aggression against Palestine, or US aggression against Iraq, Afghanistan & Syria. Saudi/UAE/US aggression against Yemen, etc)
5. The US alone is fighting war on terror in 76 countries (brown university)
6.  In 2020, the U.S. spent $778 billion on military spending, more than the next nine top-spending countries combined (worldpopulationreview)

Climate Change & Global Warming

7. Global warming has rapidly increased after industrial revolution and increase in unnecessary consumerism 
8. Fossil Fuels (coal, oil & gas) contribute 75% to climate change
9. Extreme weathers are becoming usual and we have floods and droughts at the same time in different parts of the world
10. Causes and Effects of Climate Change can be found in great detail on the UN website (UN)

Corporate Greed

11. Corporations dominate modern society, they have strong influence on government and policies. They are totalitarian institutions where orders only go top down and human beings are treated as capital added or removed as they please
12. The primary purpose is to make profits usually ignoring consideration for human contribution, wellbeing or consequences on the environment
13. They have been legally termed as limited liabilities, which means bad decisions can take place without consequences for those who took them
    1. see example of subprime mortgage crisis and how many executives or decision makers were punished for destroying the economy and making hard working people poorer and homeless
14. Corporations find clever ways to not pay taxes and deprives the system from their due share
15. Corporate greed is one of the largest contributors to inflation and people becoming poorer (Guardian) but there aren’t enough policies or improvement initiatives to counter this

Wage Slavery

16. Human beings are being told that the purpose of life is to have a career and become a cog in the corporate machine which treats them as a resource rented for use
17. Most humans do not get fulfilment from a career. As an example, most men get fulfilment from the fact that they provide for their families. They are willing to go through the hard experiences of work and trade their time for money so they can support their families 
18. The distribution of wages is completely unfair – senior executives make exponentially (~300 times) more wealth than the average workers (Economic Policy Institute)
19. There are further disparities and inequalities between genders, races, ethnic backgrounds, etc
20. Think about this for a second. Does any human being really want to work? Who benefits from bringing more of the population to the workforce? Some people may get fulfilment from having a job, but this is the exception not the rule
21. Essentially having a job is nothing more than spending the best 8-10 hours of your healthy day in a nondemocratic & totalitarian environment where someone else decides what you do, when you take a break, how you dress, etc. In the liberated society of today, human beings only have 2-5 hours of free time on an average weekday. How did we get here?  
22. There is very strong propaganda of feminism where women are told that a career will bring them joy and fulfilment and raising children at home is stigmatised
23. There is too much focus on having few women in positions of power, but not enough effort to protect the masses of women who have lack of access to education, security, justice, healthcare, equal wage, etc  
24. The question is NOT “should women have a right to work”. The real question is “do women have a right to not work?”. The cost of living has increased so much that it has become impossible for women to not work. On one hand, basic needs like food and accommodation are really expensive. On the other hand the definitions of success are based on fake concepts like owning expensive cars, bags, houses, etc and someone who doesn’t own these, is not considered of any value in society. Values like courage, nobility, generosity, knowledge, etc are not the markers of success anymore

Disability

25. There are 1.3 billion disabled people in the world (~16% of world population) (WHO Disability)
26. There are not enough resources directed to support them

Poverty

27. There are ~700 million people who live below poverty in the world. ~8% of the world population. (worldbank)

Lack of Healthcare

28. 400 million people lack access to basic health care which is ~6% of the world population (WHO on Healthcare access)
29. Another UN Report states that half the population lacks access to basic healthcare
30. 280 million people suffer from depression (~5% of world population) (WHO Report)
31. There is a shortage of healthcare providers in most countries in the world and this is growing as well
32. Healthcare costs are on the increase

Social Injustice

33. The world has Starvation and Obesity in parallel. Corporations adding sugars in all food products on one hand, and depleting resources from poor nations on the other
34. Social injustice based on gender, race, ethnic background, passport/nationalities is pervasive
35. Everyone does not have similar growth opportunities regardless of merit or hard work
36. Health and education opportunities are unfair for different demographics and groups
37. There are many human rights violations from global trade in supply chains and labour market in developing countries. Issues range from low wages, horrible and unhealthy living and working conditions, inability to get out of contracts, child abuse, and other atrocities against humanity in the effort to bring down costs and consumers in developed countries. These are found in production, mining and other industrial processes
38. There are an estimated 27.6 million victims of human trafficking worldwide at any given time. Human traffickers who prey on people of all ages, backgrounds, and nationalities, exploiting them for their own profit (US State Dept) 
39. Surprisingly, in 30% of the countries which provided information on the gender of traffickers, women make up the largest proportion of traffickers. In some parts of the world, women trafficking women is the norm (UN Global report)

Economic Injustice

40. Financial inequality within and across nations – corporations are bailed out after criminal behaviour without consequences, the poor keep getting poorer
41. Dysfunctional economies where there are many human beings looking for work, lots of work which needs to be done (e.g. in infrastructure, health, technology, etc) and trillions of dollars of cash which corporations don’t know what to do with, but somehow the economy cannot bring them together. It destroys generations of youth and promotes crime
42. There is a decline in unions, employee rights & benefits, minimum wage agreements, retirement funds, etc
43. The level of inequality between the rich and poor is increasing (Great Gatsby Curve – concentration of wealth in one generation and the ability of those in the next generation to move up the economic ladder compared to their parents) – it indicates that in countries with higher inequality it is harder to overcome you parents’ income level and vice versa. Also see Matthew Effect
44. Capitalism for the poor and socialism for the rich. When the poor are suffering capitalism does not support them, in fact a purely capitalist system does not socially support the poor. Capitalism can create huge wealth inequality and concentration of wealth with a few. However when the rich get in trouble, the government steps in to aid them as a social cause (e.g. banks acting carelessly with other people’s money are bailed out by the government).  
45. We claim to live in a meritocratic society where currency speculators on Wall Street make millions (who bet against growth) and parents raising children at home are paid nothing (who are actually developing the human capital for the future economy)
46. Gender and racial pay gaps are pervasive
47. Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity. Fewer than 60,000 people – 0.001% of the world’s population – control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity, according to a report that argues global inequality has reached such extremes that urgent action has become essential. World Inequality Report 2026 Guardian
48. Fiat currencies (not backed by a commodity) are managed by a central bank (who works in the interest of the rich and those in power) and inflation is a regular phenomenon which is essentially stealing from hard working people and keeps making them poorer (and inflation is not caused by their behaviour or actions)

Education

48. 60 million children do not have access to primary school education (UNESCO Data 2019)
49. Schools and Universities in most countries are becoming commercial profit making institutes which focus mostly on careers and not enough on knowledge and education
50. Education especially in the west has become a tool to create a class society where only rich people are able to afford higher degrees and opportunities
51. There is a shortage of teachers and educators on most levels of education
52. Lack of equity in access to higher education due to geographical location and national & social backgrounds or passports. People in developing countries have much less chances of getting a good education or opportunities compared to developed nations
53. Within developed nations, even within the same city, children being raised in certain neighbourhoods and ethnic backgrounds have very low chances of getting a good education and getting out of poverty

Consumerism & Capitalism

54. People spending money they don’t have on things they don’t need
55. The economy is highly dependant on people buying more things and corporations are incentivised to produce more and sell more disregarding any effect on the well being of people or the environment
56. Capitalism requires growth even if it is unnecessary and produces things which no one needs and harms the environment. It needs to be balanced out

If there are topics or important issues I have missed please let me know. This is not a complete list. It is just a starting point to educate my readers about some of the injustices present in society today 

May God give us the strength and capabilities to contribute in a positive way to society and earn ongoing charity for us in the hereafter. Ameen

Additional Reading

1. UN Sustainable Development Goals
2. Smart Solutions to the world’s biggest problems – Copenhagen Consensus Center
3. Effective Altruism