The inevitable conclusion of capitalism is a fragmented population sorted into the intelligent and the foolish, the lucky and the unfortunate, the opportunistic and the meek, the healthy and the sick and so on. One variable that may affect the rate at which this effective sorting process occurs, is the cultural values a society possesses and retains. A blunt way of expressing this is that capitalism is an inherently inhumane outlook, that is successful when self-moderated by a population with common goals.

If we start with a historically unifying event such as World War II and plot the USA’s capitalistic divide since, we might see the following:

We can think of the central axis as representing the degradation of a shared sociological perspective over time. That is to say, a common outlook based on history, culture, religion and tradition that is shared by the majority of a population. It’s important here to note that I am referring to an ingrained, ‘evolved’ culture built up incrementally by many generations of a population. We can also consider the central axis to be a kind of magnetised core that pulls the two opposing results of capitalism towards the centre. As this force becomes weaker, so the graph splits further.

Here we consider the generalised capitalist fragmentation of the United Kingdom and Denmark:

Capitalism brought about huge benefits during its initial and mid-phases, propelling society forward at a rate biological evolution could only ‘dream’ of, but the unavoidable endgame is where the system breaks down. In order for an ideology with this kind of exponential decay to maintain its success, the left hand side of the graph must be regularly truncated and discarded thus resetting the unifying point. However in the world-views of most people and some governments, this is rather tricky to consider.

There are many factors that cause historical, incrementally-built, shared cultural values to become ‘broken’. Globalisation and the resulting mass-migration cannot be ignored as a primary cause. No matter whether the incoming population is viewed as scrounging, violent, rich, benevolent, humourless, wonderful or odd, there will always be a clash between them and established ways of life. This is something that a capitalist system can not tolerate. Anything that weakens the unity axis hastens the end game, whether it’s “damn yuppies buying up rural cottages”, “damn freeloaders taking advantage of welfare cheques” or “damn advertisers targeting new markets”.

Mass population migration only causes problems because current economic systems can’t cope with it. Remember they were doomed anyway, this is just accelerating the failure. Capitalism has given the world fantastic opportunities at a rampant pace, but it’s about time we started planning something that will fit for the future instead of persisting with something that’s looking more and more fragile. National capitalism is no longer capable of empowering a globalised world at once. Shared historical and religious values are no longer enough to keep the unity axis powered up. We need to shift to a whole new economic system that offers tomorrow’s society a single, positive trajectory.

DISCLAIMER: This is vague, philosophical speculation based on non-scientific observation and expressed using coloured pens. It is not meant to form a foundation for your revolution.