ReasonBowl

Yeah, but see the game is that they could never make that much unless they make people so desperate they have no option but to do backbreaking work for hours on end, they call it jobs, but it's slavery, the low pay is viewed as a strategy to incentivize people in China to show up for another shift at the factory. Coerced labor is in fact a gentle form of outright chattel slavery. If you don't go willingly into coerced corporate labor you can go into option b: prison labor. Whatever the case you're either doing their work for their money, or you're starving, or living as criminal because they have made all free ways of life illegal.

So poverty is actually necessary to have extreme wealth, who is going to show up willingly to clean a pool they are not allowed to use themselves, who is going to come to your home and cook your meals, massage your back, clean your home and all the other shit the rich have done for them, who will do that freely if they could just work within their communities with their friends and families to make the things they need? Almost no one. So you have to force them to shuffle off to your places of labor and let that hopelessness sink in, there is no way out, just settle down and punch out more holes in the sheet metal.

You have to coerce people into doing things so you can control them, that's the purpose of money and it saves all the problems with outright revolts caused by more brutal prison like authoritarianism. But fool people into thinking they have a chance of winning in a capitalist system and they'll fall right in line, they operate the economy just like a casino does, the house always wins and was a rigged game from the get go, and that's why problems are never fixed. The "problems" are their source of power. They are a feature that works to the favor of oligarchic rule of the ego driven love starved mind.

With free people if they are fed, have shelter, community, equality, connection, and they are getting laid, it's pretty hard to convince them to show up for a double shift that pays a few bucks an hour. They must be made desperate and forced into such things, pressure must be applied by power, whether that be legal, physical, financial, through land rights, owning the means of production or a combination of all ...anything that allows them leverage control, this is a game of coalescing and using power with the means of ownership and ego domination. And that is what it has been for several thousand years now. However, the pendulum is cresting and it's about to fall back.

So it goes, the greater the wealth at the top the more desperate the people below must be made so they continue to show up for the insipid toxic labor forced upon them, and it is labor the owners would never lower themselves to do.

Change is coming. A reckoning.