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The American Pyramid Scheme That We Call “Capitalism” is a Very Subtle Form of Slavery
Most pyramid schemes are illegal. Not this one.
Everything we do is an input toward our future evolution.
I believe that from a purely evolutionary perspective, nobody truly profits from slavery. From a high-level, holistic point of view, the people who appear to benefit from slavery are not profiting from their dominance. American capitalism is now so bad that the people at the top are eating the hands that feed them. They’re adapting to a life of dependence upon other people.
The purpose of acquiring and maintaining dominance in any realm is to avoid accountability. That means that dominant people tend to insulate themselves from their mistakes. We saw this in the wake of the collapse of the housing bubble in 2008. No one was accountable, no one listened to any of the warnings, and the consequences were socialized while the profits were privatized.
In this world of nearly 8 billion people, there is a pyramid. The people at the top of that pyramid are entirely dependent upon the people on the bottom. The people on the top are such a tiny minority that, if the rest of the world put their collective minds to it, they could take down the people at the top. I like to think of them as the…
