Who's Profiting From $1.2 Trillion of Federal Student Loans? “There is a large student-loan industrial complex. Rising costs of college and flat family incomes have created enormous business opportunity for every step of the loan process.”

Capitalism has always floated on a bed of oppression and slavery. It's just America used to outsource it to the rest of the world. Now the rest of the world is catching up and resources are harder to come by it's become clear who's priority and who isn't, and it's nothing to do with race or nationality.

The last 120 years have been a bubble of expansion. We went from industrialization to a technological boom but the latter is drying up much quicker than the former because the foundation is fully dependent on something deemed radical and dangerous. It demands widespread education, collaboration and corporation to be successful. We're still in transition and dependent and largely on old money but those fortunes have been made, claimed and are now impregnable through the red tape that capitalism is supposed to be so virtuously against.

Wealth has become a lottery. Invent a killer app, a hot product or actually win the lottery or you're out of luck. The American dream of working hard, saving money, starting a business and growing that business is now for those who where already winning from the start. The rest of us are left to fight for scraps, shout and blame eachother or the government when it's not hard to see where the blame lies, who the enemy is. The same enemy we've had for thousands of years. Every religion, every government, every day worked and back broken has been in an effort to displace them in the name of equality and opportunity. They've taken advantage of it all. Spun their lines and made us point instruments of death at eachother.

There will come a day where we will have to face it. Until then it's futile, it's not even worth expending the effort because any meaningful progress would mean a lot of war and a lot of death.

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