Title couldn’t possibly say it all.
The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital.
The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many.
The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.


In the pre-capitalistic era the average life expectancy was 35. Now, in the countries that adopted capitalism, the average life expectancy is more than double that. Recently here in the U.S. there has been an increase in income inequality but that hasn't been due to more capitalism and less government intervention. Free market capitalism has been replaced with a corrupt crony capitalist system where those with the right political connections get rich rather than those who provide goods or services to consumers.