$2 billion lottery jackpot won by one person in Altadena, California… and after taxes, they took home $628.5 million.
Imagine winning the lottery and suddenly becoming the only billionaire who actually gets properly taxed.
Karl Marx saw work as a path to leisure, Adam Smith saw it as employer profit, and Keynes predicted that technological progress would reduce the workweek to 15 hours. Instead, capitalism delivered longer hours, harsher exploitation, and wealth funnelled to billionaires.