Why People Suffer: The Systems, The Deceptions, and the Way Out

By GLENN CHIN

Look around you. The faces you see every day - tired, stressed, worried - are not weak people. They are people trapped in a system designed to keep them that way.

Poverty is not an accident. Suffering is not inevitable. The exhaustion of billions of human beings - in a world that produces more than enough for everyone - is the predictable, measurable, and preventable outcome of specific systems built by specific people for specific purposes.

Why People Suffer is a comprehensive civilizational diagnosis. Drawing on economics, political science, psychology, history, and the remarkable wisdom of the Quran, this book maps - with unflinching honesty - the full architecture of human misery:
- The debt-based monetary system that mathematically guarantees poverty for the many
- The captured state that serves the powerful while performing service to the people
- The media machinery that manufactures both consent and confusion
- The education system engineered to produce obedient workers, not free thinkers
- The deceptions that come from every direction - false ideologies, nationalism, corrupt religion, and manufactured desire
- The damage the system inflicts not only on bodies and bank accounts, but on the human soul itself - turning people against each other, rewarding cruelty, and making the suffering of others a source of quiet satisfaction
- And the truth that even the wealthy are not spared - trapped in their own gilded cage of paranoia, isolation, and emptiness

But this book does not stop at diagnosis. It points to a way out - grounded in the Quranic institutions of Bayt al-Mal, zakat, waqf, and muakhat, and practical enough to begin building today, in any community, with whatever is at hand.

Poverty is the thing that should not be. This book explains why it exists - and what it will take to end it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H73WPNDD
• ISBN13: 9798185090053
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"