[beirut_bootleg]

There will come a moment in time when consumer wealth has been almost entirely absorbed, leaving businesses with no further profit to gain from traditional revenue streams. After years of relentless pursuit of profit, multinational corporations will have effectively captured a significant portion of the world's wealth, consolidating resources and power in the hands of a privileged few.

Will the tipping point where no more wealth can be attained become the catalyst for a long-overdue revolution, leading humanity on a path towards a more just and sustainable future, or will it mark the beginning of an irreversible descent into chaos and despair?

- The Frog to the Boiling Pot, June 27 2063

[frogperson]

Businesses shouldn't be allowed to be one so large that healthy competition no longer exists. Right now our markets are sick, healthy competition should have driven prices back down, but that isn't what we see happening.

[beirut_bootleg]

"sick" is right. A healthy market should be fine, but we have generations upon generations of chief money maker officers each trying to make line go up in the small window of time they're with the company. Repeat this enough times, and there won't be any more profit to be made.

[akomtu]

If you collect a 50% tax from one village and a 20% tax from another village, it's expected that the second village will eventually absorb all the wealth. It's not surprising because the tax collectors happen to live in the second village.