The richest two percent of the world owns half the world’s wealth. The richest 10 percent owns 85 percent of the world’s wealth. 1.4 million kids die per year of curable diseases. There’s enough food on earth to feed all six billion or so of us twice but one out of every eight people on earth is starving. The US has spent over a trillion dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan, where thousands of American soldiers (mostly poor) have died and an estimated million or so Iraqis and Afghanis have died. Our dependence on oil is poisoning the oceans, destroying the atmosphere and countless fragile ecosystems and is perpetuating mass violence and economic disparity. I’m not sure what use there is in making music aside from the fact that it’s paying my rent right now.