Oddbean

There *is* a conspiracy, an active attempt to control and oppress us. That conspiracy is working very well, in fact, and it has a name... ________________________ "The Conspiracy is Capitalism" We’re seeing conspiracy thinking flourish in response to climate change, in response to Covid, in response to nearly all world events these days. Every social media app is flooded with the idea that a secretive scheme, often orchestrated by a small and mysterious group, is behind just about everything. And the funny thing is, they’re right. Well, they’re half right. A small group does exert vastly disproportionate control over just about everything. The only issue is, they’re not that secretive about it. They flaunt their wealth and power out in the open. The small group known as “billionaires” have seen their wealth grow by 109% over the past decade – from $5.6 trillion to $11.8 trillion. The richest 1% gained nearly twice as much money as the rest of the world put together over the past two years. They control a vastly disproportionate percentage of the world’s wealth and many of the world’s politicians, and have concentrated much of the world’s power in their hands. The group I’m referring to has historically been known as the ruling class, or the owning class, the people who own the companies and control the wealth, and they spend their days trying to ensure that this imbalanced and unjust capitalist system continues. ________________________ FULL ESSAY -- https://www.jphilll.com/p/the-conspiracy-is-capitalism https://climatejustice.social/system/media_attachments/files/111/063/484/958/377/507/original/4c57ef1bcdd4aced.jpg