Episode 4.24: All our political-economic systems are Protection Rackets.

Protection rackets are things whereby gangsters present themselves as the solutions to problems of which they are themselves the cause. Specifically, the system in which we find ourselves having to live presents itself as the solution to life‘s problems when the problems that we have with life are caused by that same system. Yes, that is how the world has evolved, probably how things have always been, but it need not be - and cannot be - how we will render life sustainable and fulfilling in the future.