CAPITALISM IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
Capitalism doesn’t just create and weaponize poverty — the worst form of violence. It indoctrinates us into believing that the primary value of a person is measured by how much money they have — further dehumanizing and alienating the Poor.
Workers across the world continue to receive low wages despite working hard while their bosses net millions in salaries, proving the old adage that “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer”.
The wealth that the marginalised produce, but don’t benefit from, should be considered a crime against humanity.
“The humanity we are talking about are the 3.7 billion people who continue to be excluded from benefits, yet their labour is extracted to feed and bolster the profits of the wealthy.
"Free market capitalism has not worked for the majority of the world’s people,”
Mthathi
Given the number of people dying each year, the term ‘crime against humanity' springs to mind, especially when you consider that the number of people dying and disabled will never be accurately known
Profits Over people
The intractable crisis of the world economy is making itself felt in all spheres of life, causing immense instability in politics and world relations.
Such a deep social crisis has inevitably found its reflection in mass consciousness, particularly amongst young people, who in many parts of the world are facing higher unemployment, lower incomes and more precarious living and working conditions than their parents.
So if things are going so well, why are most people convinced of the opposite? According to Pinker and Rosling, the fault lies in the “ignorance” of the masses and their instinctive tendency to assume the worst, even when their superiors tell them otherwise. Rosling notes that when asked how many people around the world are living in poverty, people “systematically get the answers wrong”. The answer? A healthy dose of “factfulness: the stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts”.
For decades the World Bank has been pursuing its dream of a world free of poverty by issuing loans to states in the developing world and selling on the debt to Wall Street investors with attractive returns of up to 15 percent. In order to gain access to these loans, debtor countries must agree to IMF “structural adjustment” in the event that they are unable to pay back the money received, at which point they will be forced to sell off public assets and cut public spending, pensions etc.
