The fundamental goal of capitalism, at least American capitalism, is to increase the amount of passive income generated by business activity. The functional re

The fundamental goal of capitalism, at least American capitalism, is to increase the amount of passive income generated by business activity. The functional representation of this is that lenders share of economic activity increases and the borrowers share decreases, and you are all borrowers because you pay taxes and the government pays enormous interest on its debts. In fact, the only people who are not borrowers to some extent are those who live off tax free government bonds.