The world is a playground for affluent elites and rent-seekers. The wage slaves pay for the privilege of living in it. Welcome to the access economy!

The only identities that matter to them are the ones on the front of their money. Don't let them divide us. "The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe; for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them." -Turkish proverb

“It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance." -Thomas Sowell

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless." -Thomas Jefferson

"There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution." -John Adams

We've made it to the information age! Here's what we've done with it so far:

doubled down on flag-waving tribalism
doubled down on external identifiers
doubled down on social scripts
doubled down on ideological indoctrination
doubled down on silos

Great job humans!