Us v Them: How capitalism became a living hell for ordinary people |
I saw an advert for the grandly-named ‘prediction market platform’ Kalshi recently which summed up where we are as a civilisation in 2026.
Kalshi, in case you’re blissfully unaware, is a new breed of financial organisation. Its rival, Polymarket, allows you to gamble on issues like the outcome of wars. Such companies are the Platonic ideal of the corruption of late-stage capitalism.
The advert reads: ‘The world’s gone mad, trade it.’ Neither prophets nor poets could better express the mire into which we’ve crawled as a species. Today, billionaires would scrape the skin off your back and sell it if allowed.
Every day some new chaos emerges from our economic system. BP’s profits boom amid war as life expectancy and health crash for the UK’s poorest citizens.
No wonder the vast majority of people hear the word ‘growth’ and find the term meaningless, if not absurd, in the context of their lives.
But never fear, our MPs are getting drunk on taxpayer subsidised champagne while they vote on legislation which could make or break our families.
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