7 Deadly Forms of Capitalism You Have Probably Experienced
The greatest evil on Earth is profit. As the necrocapitalist dystopia becomes a reality, it is important to keep connecting the dots between our existential crises, all of which share a common denominator: capitalism.
A Cree Indian prophecy chillingly stated: “When the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught, will we realize that we cannot eat money?”
As everything in this world is monetised, commodified and put up on a fire sale, we are about to live this prophecy. The list below is far from complete, I stopped at number 7, because I thought there was enough here already to set us up for a spectacular civilisational collapse. But I may attempt to complete it in the future, there’s enough types of capitalism to fill an entire book. And unfortunately there are more, many more on the way.
Addiction Capitalism
In the 1980s, food companies deliberately made our food more unhealthy and addictive so they can boost profits. Fat was substituted with high-calory carbs, preservatives and ultra-processed ingredients were used to make food products long-lasting and incredibly cheap to produce, and sugar was added to everything. As populations in the West succumbed to cancer and diabetes, three major industries became super-rich: food manufacturing, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals.
Health Insurance Capitalism
The reason why health insurance is such a lucrative industry is because insurers do everything possible to reject health claims. Denial of health insurance coverage is not based on a case-by-case basis but on internal profit targets insurers need to meet. Each year these insurers have a target number of paying customers they need to reject whatever the patient’s situation may be, so that they remain within their huge profit margin. They will incentivize their customer representatives to find ways to deny as many people as possible of the health insurance they were entitled to. Thousands of people die each year because Mary, Joe or Roger working at the insurance claim desk were offered incentives to deny customers the urgently-needed health care they were entitled to. The CEO and stakeholders in turn got massive yearly bonuses thanks to these untimely and unnecessary deaths (murders).
Dopamine Capitalism