Capitalism’s Obituary: “The formerly rich and ever poor have now found common ground.”

The rich were shocked to find that their claims were based on debt rather than actual wealth.  Perhaps, had they been in the same room with debtors, they would have known that Capitalism was on debt life support. Now with their claims reduced to zero, the formerly rich have rediscovered their common fate with those they once disdained as lower than themselves.  They both know now that they share a common fate on the same common ground – beautiful Planet Earth.

“It is a well provisioned ship on which we sail through space.”  Henry George, 1898.

“From up there, the world looked too small for all those divisions.”  William A. Anders, 1968, commenting on his view of earth from halfway to the moon.

And a merchant said, Speak to us of Buying and Selling.
And he answered and said:
To you the earth yields her fruit and you shall not want if you but know
how to fill your hands.
It is exchanging the gifts of the earth that you shall find abundance and
be satisfied.
Yet unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some
to greed and others to hunger (Khalil Gibran, The Prophet.1923).