Growth is a fraud, a mistake that goes back to Babylon and before

One of the key ideas we inherit from our agrarian roots is Vegetatio meaning the power to grow.

The origins of Capitalism derive from the idea that if I lend you money, and you buy potatoes with it then next year you will have more potatoes and I want a share of that. So we have interest payments. Then people can generate income just from lending and you have the origin of the Capitalist.

But, it fails to see something: growth is an illusion.

While your finite field may produce a crop, it does so by absorbing CO2, light and water from outside so actually it is all Net 0. When you sell those potatoes you are stealing from someone. So the whole of Capitalism is just a massive fraud with people sticking ownership labels on stuff they don't actually own. There is no such thing as Vegetatio when you look at the larger scale, it is really just a concept based on the idea of discrete "things."

Properly everything is a cycle and nothing is separate or profitable. This small mistake made at the origins of the West is now a prison in which everything is being tortured.

#endcapitalism