If all money capital invests in appropriation and none in actual production, than capitalism is not long for this world. - David Harvey

The net worth of the 358 richest people in the world was then found to be 'equal to the combined income of the poorest 45 per cent of the worlds population - 2.3 billion people.'

If, for example, a conspiratorially minded elite is so powerful, has at its fingertips such multiple and delicate instruments with which to fine-tune accumulation, then how can the periodic headlong slides into crisis be explained?

Perpetual revolutions in technology can mean the devaluation of fixed capital on an extensive scale.