Things come to be only when the people with MONEY demand them. If you have no money your demand doesn't exist. A society this unequal serves only the rich (whether that's people or companies).
replyThe 50-99% has twice the money of the 1%, and spends orders of magnitude more.
replyIf you want to know what is in demand, look at what nice neighborhood suburbanites are doing.
Money is a mechanism for keeping tabs on how much the human civilization owes to any particular person or entity. It's imperfect, sure. But it's what we decided to go with. If you don't have money, society just decided (using its mechanisms) it pretty much owes you nothing. So your demands are disregarded.
replyWho is the "we" who decided to go with it?
replySum of all homo sapiens.
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