It's useful to think of -The World- as a gigantic factory. But instead of producing products, this factory produces billionaires. The raw materials that go into

It's useful to think of -The World- as a gigantic factory. But instead of producing products, this factory produces billionaires. The raw materials that go into the factory are money, energy and a few privileged people, the output from the assembly line are billionaires, and the waste product discarded out the back are the worn-out and no-longer-efficient minds and bodies of common workers. If you look at every significant policy decision that gets made in any country (regardless of government type), you will see that they are all in service of keeping this factory running.