Greed Is The Only Currency That Matters In 21st Century Capitalism.
The insatiable rapacity of the wealthiest 1% and their determination to dispossess the poorest and destroy the planet by accumulating more should be a matter of grave concern to us all.
We live in extraordinarily perilous times; Our politicians aren’t pretending to care anymore about anyone, never mind the most vulnerable, the volatility of the capital markets continues unabated, the gulf between the wealthy and the rest of us, is ever widening and the damage being wrought to our environment, stemming from extreme ecological capitalism is rising, every where you look and turn.
And yet, contrary to conventional wisdom, the accumulation of wealth by the dispossession of the poor isn’t an exclusively western problem — It’s very much a global malaise.
In Brazil, under the anti-LGBT, climate change and Covid denying President Jair Bolsonaro, the amazon forest is being destroyed by the wealthy farmers who voted him into power. The Congo, Indonesian together with the amazon forest, currently represent 3% of the world’s ecosystems that is still intact. That over 360,000 people have been killed thus far, in a country of 200 million people, during the pandemic has meant very little to a world leader, who continues to deny the existence of the virus.