“Bezos, Gates, billionaires of all kinds and even less wealthy folks who built their fortune by exploiting workers are all merely players in a game. They are playing by the rules. Rules that we ourselves wrote ‘democratically’. Sure they use loopholes, but isn’t a loophole just a less apparent rule? They’re playing fairly and they got rich, like in Monopoly. Good for them!”

Ok. I hear you but listen to me. Let’s assume for a minute that these rules weren’t written by lobbyists or, more accurately, indirectly by the mega wealthy themselves. For the sake of argument, the rules of the Game of Capitalism were written via direct democracy by working class citizens. Ok, are we on the same page now?

OUR LIVES ARE NOT A FUCKING GAME!!!

If I work for half of my waking life, I deserve a full return on my labor! My children deserve healthcare whether or not I can afford to pay for it out of pocket! They deserve to get a good education! Just because I don’t have the cunning, morally depraved, self serving reptile brain of Jeff Bezos that does not mean that I should work for my whole life and remain in financial insecurity for my whole life! There is more at stake than play money here. It’s our lives.

“Well, you’re playing by the same rules, play smarter like the rich do!”

THIS GAME REQUIRES WINNERS AND LOSERS!!! Even if I decided to do what it took to become wealthy while my neighbors starved and got left behind, what about those neighbors? There is so little room at the top. Mega-wealth necessitates abject poverty for many and it necessitates a middle class that does not receive what they’re owed!

Even if we had a say in how this system operated, and we DO NOT, isn’t it time to stand up and finally declare that it isn’t the best possible economic system for humanity? Even if it is incredibly comfortable and decadent for 1% of us?

The rules are broken, so fuck the rules but more importantly FUCK THIS GAME.