But when social organisation itself fosters crises and abandons security and employment as goals, then some personal wealth accumulation is necessary.

This is a self-reinforcing system and a significant part of why the problems we face seem so intractable. A few relatively wealthy individuals who use their wealth to leverage even further wealth force the rest, at least those of the rest who have any sense of their true situation, to play their game. And, to the extent that they have influence over lawmaking, effective challenges to incumbent wealth and the process by which it is accumulated, become illegal.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."