The Honest Truth About Capitalism

The blunt truth about our global socio-economic system (aka capitalism) is that it is unfair and unsustainable. Not just "somewhat" unfair and unsustainable. It is completely, 100% unfair and unsustainable. The following article will show you why that is the case.

The truth be told is that you have almost no chance of making enough money to survive in our economy (let alone "prosper" and "succeed" in it) unless you are extremely lucky. As in you are born into a wealthy family. Or you have inherited wealth and social status. Or if you are a greedy, thieving person.  Our society certainly does not reward honesty, hard-work, or good virtue. It rewards those who can most successfully scam and rip-off other people. Like business people, lawyers, politicians and sales people.

The vast majority of extremely wealthy people contribute jack shit to society. They just extract enormous amounts of wealth off of profits, interest payments and taxes from the lower/middle classes and productive workers of society. Capitalism is simply a pyramid scheme whereby the government is merely a tool used by the extremely, wealthy business elites and bankers to extract wealth from the poor and middle class people. 

This global pyramid scheme (aka global capitalism) is sustained through infinite growth in BOTH human population and consumption of natural resources.  Of course, it is unsustainable because the Earth has a finite amount of natural resources. The primary problem is that our global economy is dependent on perpeutally increasing the extraction and consumption of finite and nonrenewable resources. Such as fossil fuels (like coal  petroleum and natural gas) mineral/metallic ores (like copper, iron, aluminium and gold) and top soil (top soil is being depleted by, at least, 75,000,000,000 tonnes--aka 75 billion tons--per year around the globe).  Obviously, a system based off perpeutally increasing the consumption of finite and nonrenewable resources cannot last forever. Especially when there are now over 8,000,000,000 people on this planet. And global human population is still rapidly growing by over 200,000 people each and every day (births minus deaths).  The world is obviously overpopulated by human beings. Yet our global economy is completely dependent on perpeutally increasing the global human population, to fuel perpeutal increases in resource consumption. In order to generate a steady stream of profits and revenues for global corporations (like Amazon, Walmart, Microsoft and Costco) and the nation states that support the said corporations.

The global human population cannot grow for much longer. Its collapse is a mathematical certainty. Especially since the Earth is rapidly running out of the essential resources for sustaining our global population. It is not just peak oil. It is the peak everything crisis. The Earth is rapidly running out of many (if not most) essential resources for sustaining the global economy/global human population. Not to mention the climate change caused by the consumption of fossil fuels and other industrial activities, which will certainly have further detrimental effects on global agriculture.

Reminder: I will update this article in the future.  This is what I posted as of April 09, 2023.

Ok, I am going to continue updating this article. As for 2023, the current human predicament is very grim. Despite the unsustainability and corruption of the current capitalist system, I highly doubt it will ever be replaced. 

As for technology coming to fix humanity's problems? That is the myth of technological progress. Most people are under the delusion that technology can fix all of humanity's problems. The truth is technology can, at best, make life more convenient. For example, a small percentage of relatively priveleged people can now travel longer distances via automobiles or airplanes. But technology cannot fix any of the fundamental problems of human civilization such overpopulation, resource depletion, environmental degradation, increasing mental illness, poverty, climate change and plethora of other problems.