I love the article, particularly this quote about modern day slavery: "It has the semblance of class. The chains are no longer iron but electrical impulses undulating in one’s mind cauterizing the thinking process". Thank you for that and many other good turns of phrase.

What is shocking is that we have bought their terms entirely. We buy into the idea that it is "they" who must change because it is "they" who abuse, when all the evidence shows they don't operate out of morality. So we're simply banging our heads against a wall doing it that way. You asked why aren't corporate profits shared? But really, we must ask - as we are overwhelmingly the "many", why we buy into their terms and why we don't start things on our terms. We don't even ask what we can do. We keep looking to them to give us our "pocket money" like children. What about if we started collaboratives that shared amongst the workers? What about if we used another currency that we agree to that's got nothing to do with banks? What if we created our own currency, say made from hemp? And started growing hemp and making it into all sorts of products? Hemp does so much to clean the earth too. And it gets us away from petrochemicals. I mean we can do a lot but everyone is just crying about it and asking their warlords to be nicer to them, to be fairer. Politics is the same. Somebody started all those things, they are all man-made. We can start something new, even if it means doing it within this deranged cultural milieu.