The Entire Human Species Has Been Turned Into A Profit-Generating Machine

About this episode

The episode discusses how capitalism reduces humanity to mere tools for corporate profit.

Under capitalism, humanity exists to serve the interests of the corporation. We are all livestock; beasts of burden used to carry margin expansion forward from quarterly statement to quarterly statement. Enjoyment of life has no value other than the extent to which it can be used to increase the net worth of the shareholders. Reading by Tim Foley.

People in this episode

Hosts: Caitlin Johnstone, Tim Foley

Topics covered

• capitalism
• corporate interests
• humanity
• profit generation
• livestock analogy

Keywords

• capitalism
• corporation
• profit
• shareholders
• livestock
• margin expansion
• quarterly statement

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: corporation, shareholders

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