Why is hunger skyrocketing, when almost half of food produced is thrown into landfills and the stock market is soaring?

Why is it so hard to get healthcare for all, even during a pandemic, even when the policy is so popular? Why is healthcare still tied to employment? Certainly, industry profits and money in politics. But it's even deeper.

Those who control the capital seek to create scarcity - or rather, the illusion of scarcity, by artificially preventing access - so as to force the workers into what amounts to wage slavery and drive exponential growth, which is also destroying the Earth's living systems.

Basically, it's conform and work like mad, or else starve without healthcare.

It has been getting worse for decades, and shocks like this pandemic ratchet it even further. But it doesn't have to be this way.

I think coming out of this madness of never-ending exponential growth is essential to stopping climate and ecological breakdown. Indigenous peoples have long known another way. We take only what we need, with gratitude, and no more than what can regenerate.

And we share with each other, we share resources and wealth equitably. We help each other on this tiny beautiful spaceship.

We certainly don't have billionaires. A billionaire is a being deeply out of ecological balance. A billionaire is a Wendigo, always hungry, never sated, eating up everyone and everything until all is destroyed.