Wendell Berry said, “A corporation is a pile of money to which a group of men swear moral allegiance.”
The stock market is where people place bets on the competitive moral turpitude of those men.
The income tax code is written to force all of us (IRAs, 401k) to bet on the ability of brokers to maintain the bets.
Bitcoin is the bet that it will all fall apart.
Advertising is tax-deductible theft of time and attention teaching our children to be consumers and blind competitive fanatics.
Humanity have built a factory(civilization) that loses tools, money and resources every day.
Anthropocentrism is planning to make it up in volume.