Life After Capitalism
It’s time to start building something new amongst the rubble.
There may be some truth to the saying that it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, but at the same time I’m a strong believer in the notion that we, as a society, have evolved past this system and are ready to move into a new phase of our civilization.
It’s becoming increasingly clear to millions around the globe that capitalism is on its last legs. Wracked by the cyclical crises and repeated emergencies that this economic paradigm engenders, many of us have begun to question both its efficacy and its ethics.
Struggling to survive in a system based around artificial scarcity and competition has been an abjectly punishing experience for the vast majority of humanity.
For those of you fortunate souls out there who have never been trapped in real poverty, it is a harrowing, traumatizing ordeal that renders the person’s daily life an exhausting test of endurance, rather than something to be marveled at and enjoyed.
Misery is too small a word to capture the state the bottom half of our species has been subjected to, while cruel seems insufficient…
