He is the richest man who ever lived not by serving others but only by serving himself. This is the transactional world of Trumpism. Everything, EVERYTHING, must generate profit for a seller. No breakeven, no “giving”; no commons free to all. Except for the air we breathe nothing is for free and the owner must be paid at a profit. Someone must get more from less. As wealth concentrates upward with no redistribution there are fewer at the top with everything and more at the bottom with nothing. And this is of course the frequently observed flaw in neoliberalism and Market Fundamentalism: There must be a loser, and those losers must fall out of the bottom of the system into destitution. To “give” them anything is simply not acceptable and heretical to the god of the market. No “free”….the only freedom is found in freedom from taxation and regulation enabling unrestrained greed and exploitation.
This very simple truth about making money the god of this world is not talked about in public. Ever. Because it is essentially about glorifying the predator and the people who rage at sharing anything; selfishness that treats selflessness as stupidity. Only greed matters in the end. This ideology is, right now, at this very moment, taking absolute power over the world. The result can only be a new dark age of death and destruction. The fundamental golden rule to do unto others is denied and called a lie while the one with the gold makes the rules is called the truth. That is the grift, that someone must get more from less is the Market Fundamentalist version of creation, of God creating something from nothing. Except that for Mammon worshipers, it is not a God of the living, it is a god of amassing power over what is, and this god is divorced from life as the fundamental meaning. It is anti-life and evil.
There are no “useless eaters”, there are only human beings and none of us can be priced in value millions of times higher than others. The simplest truth of all can be found in understanding the only reason anyone owns anything is the rest of us let them. The only reason money becomes a god is because we let that god be worshiped. WE, collectively…. we the people, have the power and give limited authority to ideas and individuals for the common good. The lie that our collective is evil, that actually only the strongest apex predator should have authority and not being loyal to that strong man is some kind of “slave morality”, this is the evil that creates death camps and mass murder.
Not much time left to decide what each of us worships.
Ice on the Moon 