Capitalism:

The Great Scam of the Century

"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power."
— Benito Mussolini

Capitalism sells itself as the ultimate system of freedom, innovation, and upward mobility—the idea that anyone, no matter their background, can work hard, hustle, and climb the economic ladder.

Sounds great, right?

Except it’s a lie.

✔ The Sales Pitch: Anyone can work hard and become rich!
✔ The Reality: A rigged system where billionaires hoard wealth, exploit labor, dodge taxes, and use political influence to ensure you never reach their level.

Because capitalism isn’t about free markets—it’s about controlled markets. Markets controlled by corporations, monopolies, and the ultra-rich who write the rules in their favor.

So while they tell you to “pull yourself up by your bootstraps,” they’re busy cutting wages, gutting unions, outsourcing jobs, and stacking the economy so that wealth only flows in one direction—up.

🚨 This isn’t opportunity. It’s feudalism with better PR.

I. The Origins: From Market Economy to Wealth Hoarding

Capitalism wasn’t always a machine built to funnel wealth to the top 0.1%. In theory, it started as a simple concept:

✔ People produce goods and sell them for profit.
✔ The market determines value based on supply and demand.
✔ Competition drives innovation and efficiency.

Sounds reasonable, right? Except that’s not how it actually works.

📌 The Early Days: The Feudal Roots of Capitalism
Before capitalism, we had feudalism—where landowners (lords) controlled everything and peasants worked for survival.

Fast forward a few centuries, and guess what? Not much has changed.

✔ Instead of lords, we have billionaires.
✔ Instead of serfs, we have low-wage workers and gig economy slaves.
✔ Instead of castles, we have corporate monopolies and tax havens.

🚨 The Feudal Lords never went away—they just started wearing suits.

II. The Promise vs. The Reality: Who Actually Benefits?

Who Capitalism Pretends to Help:

✔ Entrepreneurs and small businesses.
✔ Workers who “work hard” and “earn their way up.”
✔ The middle class—because everyone gets a fair shot, right?

Who Capitalism Actually Benefits:

🚨 Massive Corporations & Billionaires
✔ Amazon, Walmart, Google, ExxonMobil—these behemoths dictate market conditions, crush competition, and rig the rules in their favor.
✔ They outsource jobs, dodge taxes, and demand government bailouts whenever their greed backfires.

📌 Example: The 2008 Financial Crisis
✔ Banks caused a global recession, got billions in bailouts, and then gave themselves bonuses.
✔ Meanwhile, millions of Americans lost their homes and life savings.

🚨 The Political & Corporate Elite
✔ Capitalism and democracy? Nice theory—but in practice, billionaires buy politicians.
✔ Lobbying = Legalized bribery. The richest 0.1% dictate policy, while you get meaningless elections.

📌 Example: Elon Musk & Government Subsidies
✔ Musk rails against “big government”—while his companies receive billions in government contracts & subsidies.
✔ You’re told “socialism is bad”—but billionaires enjoy corporate welfare on your dime.

🚨 The Cycle of Wealth Hoarding
✔ The ultra-rich don’t work for wealth—they let their money do it for them.
✔ The tax system is rigged so that if you’re rich enough, you never have to pay your fair share.

📌 Example: Jeff Bezos & Amazon
✔ Amazon made over $400 billion—yet in some years, paid $0 in federal taxes.
✔ Bezos is worth over $150 billion, yet Amazon warehouse workers pee in bottles because they’re afraid of losing their jobs.

🚨 What This Means:
✔ Capitalism isn’t about “free markets”—it’s about protecting monopolies and crushing competition.
✔ The “American Dream” is a PR stunt—the real game is wealth hoarding at the top.

III. Capitalism’s Evolution: From Industrialism to Corporate Dictatorship

Once upon a time, capitalism was about factories, production, and labor. Then, it mutated into something far worse:

✔ Industrial Capitalism (1800s-1900s): Factories, steel, railroads—actual products were made.
✔ Corporate Capitalism (1950s-2000s): Large conglomerates swallowed industries whole.
✔ Financial Capitalism (2000s-Present): Money makes money—Wall Street bets on stocks instead of producing anything real.

📌 The Modern Era: Capitalism Without Labor
✔ The richest corporations today—Google, Facebook, Amazon—don’t make products. They sell data, attention, and digital real estate.
✔ They don’t employ workers—they use AI, automation, and algorithms to eliminate them.

🚨 The Result?
✔ A billionaire class richer than medieval kings.
✔ A working class struggling harder for less pay than their grandparents.
✔ A society where economic power decides political power.

And we still pretend this is “fair.”

IV. Capitalism vs. Democracy: The Inevitable Collision

Let’s stop pretending capitalism and democracy are compatible.

📌 Capitalism’s Core Goal:
✔ Maximize profit.
✔ Minimize costs.
✔ Crush anything that gets in the way.

📌 Democracy’s Core Goal:
✔ Ensure fairness.
✔ Protect rights.
✔ Give people a voice.

🚨 See the problem?
✔ If profit is the goal, then democracy is an obstacle.
✔ That’s why billionaires buy elections, fund think tanks, and lobby to weaken regulations.

📌 Example: Citizens United (2010)
✔ Supreme Court ruling that allowed unlimited corporate spending in elections.
✔ Corporations = People (but somehow, they never go to jail).
✔ The richest donors now decide who gets elected—not voters.

🚨 The Result?
✔ The government answers to capital, not citizens.
✔ Policies benefit big business over working people.
✔ Elections become meaningless theater, funded by billionaires.

V. Can Capitalism Be Fixed? Or Is It Too Late?

Let’s be real: Capitalism will never “self-correct.”

🚨 Wealth hoarding is a feature, not a bug.
🚨 Corporate monopolies are the goal, not an accident.
🚨 Billionaires controlling government is the logical endpoint.

So what do we do?

✔ Tax the ultra-rich. No more loopholes, no more offshore accounts.
✔ Break up monopolies. Amazon, Google, Facebook—they are too powerful to exist as they do.
✔ Ban corporate money in politics. If billionaires can buy politicians, democracy is already dead.
✔ Invest in public good over private profit. Healthcare, education, housing—stop letting Wall Street treat human lives like assets.

🚨 But here’s the real question: Do we even have the power to do this anymore?

Because capitalism has already taken democracy hostage.

✔ The system won’t reform itself.
✔ Billionaires won’t voluntarily give up power.
✔ Change only happens when people force it.

So the question isn’t whether capitalism can be reformed.
The question is whether we’re willing to fight for a future where the few don’t own everything.

Because if we don’t fight back, we already know who wins.