Capitalism Doesn’t Want You To Survive What’s Coming

Any species subscribing to narratives of its supremacy over other species will sooner or later fall prey to identical narratives within its own society.  It was unavoidable therefore that the myth of human supremacy would be cloned and reproduced across social strata: racial supremacy, income supremacy, cultural, gender and straight supremacy are mere versions of our self-enforced belief that we are the one and only supreme being amongst 10 million species.  

This is why humans have already perpetrated on themselves all the crimes they perpetrated against nature.  The very engine of our economic system runs on supremacy and inequality narratives, because these are the drivers behind the lowest wages, greatest exploitation and maximum profit.  Capitalism thrives most vigorously on the vulnerable, the desperate, the enslaved and the defenceless, whether you are an orangutan in Southeast Asia or an undocumented sweatshop worker in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen. 

Inequality is capitalism’s biggest productizable asset: it is continuously maintained, amplified, leveraged, invented and reinvented, invested and re-invested in to help corporations achieve record profits.  Preserving income and educational inequality is crucial to this system because the biggest profit margins are made from the weak, the desperate and the misinformed.

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Human rights and nature’s rights have always been the enemies of profit because dignity, equality, diversity, ecology and healthcare are red alerts, loss-making overheads no business will invest in unless forced by regulation.  Human rights and nature’s rights are equally menacing to capitalism’s bottom line for one simple reason: this system is an opportunistic predator that will go after all living things regardless of species or position in the supremacy hierarchy.  Capitalism will not hesitate to come for us all regardless of what we look like, who we voted for, or what species we belong to.

This means that as long as this planet is ruled by profit and the oligarchs who earn it, there will never be respect towards either nature or humans.  It is more profitable to burn down a rainforest than maintain it.  It is cheaper to breed more misinformed voters, consumers and salary slaves than maintain the health of existing ones.  And it is more lucrative for oligarchs to watch it all burn down, than to build social and environmental capital for the future.

This economic system claims to be driven by freedom when it is in fact driven by fear: the fear of perishing in the absence of the steady drip of comforts the necroeconomy provides.  The fear that the world would enter the dark ages if our consumeristic amenities were compromised.  Our fear of abandoning this economic system is so immense, people would rather live with the inequality, exploitation and slavery it breeds than dare to contemplate a day without capitalism.  In this absurd social organisation we have all passively accepted that a handful of billionaires can accumulate the planet’s wealth while the vast majority struggles.  We have come to expect inequality and discrimination at each turn, becoming accustomed to the wars and famines this system engineers to further its agendas and boost its profits.  We have internalised all versions of supremacy and passively accepted the roles this system has assigned to each one of us based on the bucket we’ve been placed in.  No other species suffers from so much inequality in its communities because no other species has unconditionally embraced its own exploitation.

This corrosive system has cleverly convinced us all that we can’t live without it, when in fact we will die precisely because of it.  We may have rid ourselves of natural predators but created a new one: a necroeconomy bearing gifts, a Trojan Horse with a hypnotizing stare.  Humans love gifts, and the Unhappiness Machine knows this.  Both the “haves” and “have nots” are prepared to defend this suicidal economic system like their life depends on it, even though they have everything to lose simply by continuing to support it. 

Our defeatism is encouraging the necroeconomy to become even more predatory.  As long as we continue to accept, expect and comply with the everyday atrocities this economic system commits, the system itself will become more ruthless, controlling, and destructive.  This is not an economic system. This is how a civilisation self-destructs. Unless we come to our senses, there will be nothing left of us but random artifacts in a garage sale.  

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