People are productive. That's just how we are. For the majority of us, our bodies are excellent at processing nutrients and converting them into energy that we can then use to accomplish a great deal of industrious things.

Then along comes business, which is not industriousness. It is a claim on ownership of industriousness. And in order to make that ownership profitable, capitalism must sabotage it.

This sabotage comes in the form of enclosure, patent shelving, price-gouging, scope creep, wage-stagnation, and alienation.

Without business, everyone would still be industrious, but they would not be exhausted, broke, stressed, disregarded, discarded, and isolated.

Capitalism has insinuated itself as the middle-man of community, pretending that we need it for the community to align even when we don't agree on every detail.

But we have never needed the middle man. We are perfectly capable of communicating with our community, stating our needs, finding out their need, and fulfilling both without making one of us rich for figuring out how to sabotage our relationships.

We've been taught not to trust our neighbors, but trusting our neighbors is precisely how we get ourselves out of this mess.