Well-researched and brilliant article. Every word rings true.

We have the answers, as you’ve so lucidly described. No government is listening. Every government in every country, is owned and run by cartels.
Water, power, gas, mining, healthcare, pharma, production of staples. Construction too. Private prisons in USA? Run for profit? Banking is a racket. Disgusting. What can we plebeians do? Hamstrung by an evil myth — democracy.

Cartels aka mega corporations, profited enormously during the Covid crisis. We all attacked Amazon.com with unprecedented frenzy of consumption .

As Mike Meyer commented, our thresholds for suffering rise in the face of adversity till we are annihilated.