Capitalism is a Pyramid Scheme

The of those lower on the pyramid enriches the ones towards the top. To stay stable, the economy has to draw in more and more resources- colonizing new continents workforces and aspects of our lives. The resulting inequalities can only be maintained by ever-escalating force: armies occupy countries, police patrol neighborhoods, security cameras point at ever cash register.
Capitalists make money not only on what they do but also from what they own. It takes money to make money, as they say. Business owners, landlords, and large shareholders are capitalists: so are executives who receive salaries padded with money produced by other people's efforts.
Capitalists cash in on the activity of the exploited. the exploited can only make money from their own labor, so its easy for employers to pay them less than the value they produce. When banks and credit card companies make money off debtors, they're exploiting them, the same as a corporation that pays an employee a dollar to make a $200 pair of shoes.
Others are at the mercy of the economy but excluded from participating in it. The unemployed and the homeless are excluded, along with most of the occupants of shantytowns around the world. Prisoners are often both excluded and exploited, being forced to work at a pittance that amounts to slave labor,. Being excluded is not the same as being outside the market- the dispossessed are poor precisely because they are inside capitalism.
We're encouraged to compete against each other to improve our positions on an individual basis. But there's not enough space at the top of the pyramid for all of us, no matter how hard we work- and no pyramid scheme can go on expanding forever. Sooner or later its bound to crash: recession and global warming are just the first warning signs. Instead of going down with the Pharaohs, let's join forces to establish another way of life.

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