The Facts – We Have A Worldwide Oligarchy Now


Brian Thompson (July 10, 1974 – December 4, 2024) Former United Hell Care CEO

The world today is defined by a global oligarchy, a system where wealth, power, and influence have concentrated in the hands of a select few. This isn’t a conspiracy; it is a measurable reality, the result of decades of systemic design and opportunism. The mechanisms of this system—automation, financialization, and exploitation—are not accidental. They are features, not bugs, of a paradigm that has emerged since the end of the Cold War.

The End of the Cold War and the Profit Motive

The Cold War was more than a geopolitical conflict; it was an ideological race. The competition between capitalism and communism drove grand narratives: the space race, public health advances, global infrastructure projects, and visions of societal progress. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the need for these grand visions evaporated.

In the void left behind, a new ethos emerged: profit above all else. Governments, corporations, and financial institutions no longer had to prove their systems superior to any ideological rival. Instead, they pivoted inward, prioritizing efficiency, shareholder returns, and market dominance. This shift wasn’t gradual; it was deliberate.

Economic systems were deregulated, public assets privatized, and tax policies rewritten to benefit the wealthiest. The new mantra was clear: to get rich, you no longer needed to create value for society. You simply needed to find where to take money from others.

The Exploitation Mechanism

This exploitation-driven economy thrives on taking value from the many to enrich the few. The mechanisms are diverse but share a common denominator: extraction without accountability.

1. Financialization

The rise of financial institutions as the core drivers of global wealth creation has decoupled profits from productivity.
Instead of funding innovation or infrastructure, wealth is made by speculating on debt, assets, and markets, often at the expense of workers and consumers.
Pension funds, mortgages, and even health insurance are leveraged as tools for profit extraction.

2. Automation

Automation should have been humanity’s liberation from drudgery, but instead, it has displaced millions of workers without providing alternatives.
The profits generated by automation overwhelmingly flow to the top, leaving the displaced workforce to struggle in precarious, underpaid jobs.

3. Bullshit Jobs and the Precariat

Millions are employed in roles that exist solely to sustain the illusion of a functioning economy: compliance officers, middle managers, PR strategists, and layers of bureaucracy that add no real value.
Meanwhile, the “precariat”—a growing class of workers with no job security, benefits, or hope for upward mobility—serves as the system’s expendable backbone.

4. The Wealth Pipeline

At the top of this system sit billionaires and oligarchs who control disproportionate shares of global resources. Their wealth isn’t the result of innovation or creativity—it’s the product of a system that rewards extraction over creation.

The Rise of Oligarchic Evangelism

Figures like Peter Thiel openly champion this new paradigm. Thiel has stated outright that “capitalism and democracy are incompatible” and that true innovation can only occur in systems where the powerful are unencumbered by public oversight. His ideology celebrates monopoly control, viewing competition as an obstacle to profit rather than a driver of progress.

These sentiments are not fringe—they reflect the broader mindset of an elite class that sees the public not as stakeholders in a shared future, but as obstacles to be managed. Exploitation isn’t a side effect; it’s the strategy.

Corruptible Politicians and Fiat Currencies

In this system, governments play a key enabling role. Fiat currencies—money backed by nothing but trust—are managed by politicians who are heavily influenced by the very oligarchs who benefit from this system. Corruption and lobbying ensure that monetary policies:

Devalue Public Wealth: Through inflation, money printing, and unsustainable debt, the purchasing power of ordinary people erodes.
Protect the Wealthy: Central banks prioritize asset markets (stocks, bonds, real estate) where the rich park their money, ensuring their wealth grows regardless of broader economic struggles.
Create Cycles of Dependency: Public programs and safety nets are underfunded, forcing the population to rely on debt and predatory financial systems.

Media: Closing Ranks After Bryan Johnson’s Death

The murder of Bryan Johnson, a CEO emblematic of healthcare’s profit-driven ethos, sparked a flurry of media responses. Rather than reflecting on the systemic failures that fuel public rage, the media closed ranks, portraying Johnson as a martyr of capitalism and clutching pearls at the “senseless violence.”

The Problem with the Media Response:

Pearl-Clutching Alienates: The narrative of defending the oligarchy only reinforces the public’s belief that the system serves the elite, not the people.
Dismissing Public Anger: By ignoring the legitimate frustrations behind such acts, the media risks making itself complicit in deepening societal divides.
Fueling Antagonism: The tone-deafness of this reaction may inadvertently make the public more antagonistic toward corporate and media institutions.

The Entropic Society: A Race to the Bottom

At the heart of this global system is a society without vision, ambition, or hope for the future. Policies are not designed to solve problems—they exist to perpetuate the status quo. This is a society where:

Short-Term Goals Dominate: Governments and corporations prioritize quarterly profits and election cycles over long-term stability.
Lowest Common Denominator Policies: Innovation is stifled by bureaucracy, and transformative ideas are sidelined in favor of preserving existing hierarchies.
Enablers Thrive: Bullshit jobs proliferate, creating an economy where millions work tirelessly to sustain systems that actively harm them.

The result is a passive, visionless race to the bottom, where no one is incentivized to ask the hard questions: What kind of world are we building? And for whom?

Conclusion: A System on the Brink

This chapter paints the picture of a world locked in entropy, where wealth is extracted, not created; where innovation is stifled by monopolies; and where the public grows increasingly disillusioned. While this system enriches the few in the short term, its structural flaws point to inevitable collapse unless something radically changes.

You Are Going Go Literally Die Unless Things Change

History teaches us that when societies become too unequal, too unjust, and too blind to the suffering of their people, revolution follows. The guillotine, once a tool of terror, became a symbol of justice against the unchecked power of the elite. The French Revolution didn’t arise out of nowhere—it was the inevitable result of aristocrats hoarding wealth and ignoring the misery of the masses. Today, we revere those revolutionary figures who stood up to tyranny, who toppled kings, and who demanded liberty, equality, and fraternity.

But what about now? What makes the oligarchic rulers of today any different from the monarchs of the past? The reality is, they aren’t. And the system they oversee offers us nothing but more misery—a future of despair punctuated by acts of violence that feel less like senseless tragedies and more like the forewarning of something far worse.

The Guillotine as the Worst-Case Scenario

When Bryan Johnson, a healthcare CEO, was gunned down, the media cried foul. They painted the act as barbaric, incomprehensible, and indicative of a society spiraling out of control. But behind closed doors, the oligarchs must have whispered a more chilling fear: “If we don’t change, the guillotines may follow.”

A world where the masses rise up against their rulers is a world where oligarchs cannot hide. History shows that once the dam of public anger breaks, the consequences are devastating:

Wealth Stripped Away: The fortunes of the elite are confiscated or destroyed.
Collapse of Authority: Governments lose legitimacy as their enforcers—militaries, police, and bureaucracies—defect or crumble under public pressure.
Uncontrolled Chaos: Revolutions, though often romanticized in retrospect, are brutal and bloody, with no guarantee of a better outcome.

The guillotine is not just a symbol of justice—it’s a warning. When inequality becomes unbearable, society collapses.

The Next Best Thing: The Dystopia of Control

If the guillotine doesn’t come, the alternative might be even worse: a fiercely dystopian world where the oligarchy clings to power through repression, surveillance, and violence. This world is already emerging:

Billionaire Bunkers: The elite retreat to fortified compounds, living in isolated luxury while the world around them burns.
Mass Surveillance: AI-driven systems monitor every action, ensuring that dissent is identified and crushed before it can grow.
Gated Communities: Urban areas are divided into fortress-like enclaves for the wealthy, surrounded by slums of desperate, impoverished people.
Social Credit Scores: Citizens are ranked, controlled, and denied access to basic rights based on their compliance with the system.
Violence in the Streets: As inequality grows, more CEOs are gunned down, more riots erupt, and more lives are lost in a cycle of escalating repression and resistance.

This dystopia is a society where the many suffer so the few can live in fear. It is a world where misery is institutionalized, and progress is replaced by perpetual control.

Revolutionary Actions: Heroes of the Past, Villains of the Present?

We celebrate the heroes of history who fought against oppression. George Washington. Toussaint Louverture. Simon Bolivar. Their revolutionary actions were not just accepted—they were admired, romanticized, and immortalized. We see them as symbols of hope, courage, and the fight for justice.

But if the public rises today against the oligarchy, are they any less justified? What, precisely, separates the tyrannies of the past from the global oligarchic system we live under now? The answer is nothing. The only difference is that this tyranny hides behind the façade of democracy and markets, cloaking exploitation in the language of freedom and choice.

This system offers no meaningful progress, no shared prosperity, no dignity for the many. It offers only misery for the masses and paranoia for the few.

The Here and Now: A World of Hellish Misery

For the ordinary person, the future has never looked darker. The challenges we face are not just immense—they feel insurmountable, born of a system designed to create victims at every turn:

Climate Change: Fires, floods, and droughts are destroying livelihoods while the rich buy coastal mansions and carbon offsets.
AI and Automation: Jobs are disappearing, replaced by machines that funnel profits to the top, leaving millions unemployed and unemployable.
Polarization: Social trust is eroded by algorithm-driven outrage, dividing societies into warring factions.
Pollution: The air, water, and soil are poisoned by industries that prioritize profit over survival.
Inflation and Unaffordability: Housing, food, and healthcare costs skyrocket while wages stagnate, trapping millions in debt.
The Drug Crisis: Communities are ravaged by addiction, despair, and the predatory practices of pharmaceutical giants.

These crises are not random—they are the direct result of systemic failures. A system that prioritizes short-term profits over long-term survival is a system that will always produce suffering on an industrial scale.

A World of Hypercompetition and Mass Victims

The global order today is defined by hypercompetition—not just between individuals, but between nations and oligarchs themselves. Every decision is driven by the need to gain an edge, to crush competitors, and to extract ever more wealth from a finite system. The result is a world that manufactures victims at every level:

Workers displaced by automation.
Communities destroyed by climate disasters.
Nations driven to war by the need to control dwindling resources.

The looming specter of world war is not the result of ideology or necessity—it is the natural consequence of competing oligarchic elites, each dead set on preserving their own power at any cost. This is not a race to prosperity—it is a race to annihilation.

What Does the System Offer Us?

This system, this oligarchic nightmare, offers nothing. No hope. No progress. No shared future. It offers more misery, more inequality, more despair. It offers a planet consumed by climate disasters, a workforce replaced by machines, and a society that sees violence as its only outlet. It offers hellish misery for the masses and gilded cages for the elite.

This is not a future anyone should accept. And yet, this is the future we are being given.

The question is no longer whether this system will fail—it is only how much more suffering we will endure before it does.

Health Span Versus Hell Care

In a world spiraling into chaos, where the oligarchy tightens its grip and the people are drowning in despair, hope is no longer optional—it’s a necessity. If we are to chart a path out of this hellish mire, we must start somewhere tangible, somewhere that offers immediate impact and long-term promise. That place is health care.

Health care is where the systemic failures of the old world are most visible—and most fixable. It is also the foundation for something greater: a new paradigm that doesn’t just treat sickness but fosters life. From health span to life extension, the road is long and difficult, but it is the best road we have.

The Current Hell of Health Care

Health care today is a dystopia in itself. It’s not designed to keep people healthy—it’s designed to profit from their suffering. The system is reactive, predatory, and fundamentally broken:

1. Reactive, Not Preventative

Treating Symptoms, Not Causes: Health care waits for people to get sick before intervening, focusing on managing conditions rather than preventing them.
Missed Opportunities: Preventative care, early interventions, and proactive wellness programs are deprioritized because they don’t generate as much revenue.

2. Profit Over People

Pharmaceutical Greed: Drug prices are artificially inflated, with lifesaving medications priced out of reach for millions.
Insurance Exploitation: Insurance companies prioritize shareholder profits, denying care to those who need it most.
Endless Debt: For many, a single medical emergency can lead to financial ruin, locking them into cycles of poverty.

3. Systemic Inequality

Access for the Few: The wealthy receive premium care, while the poor are left to navigate underfunded and overcrowded systems.
Global Disparities: In developing nations, basic health care is a luxury, and millions die from preventable diseases.

Why Health Care Is the Best Place to Start

Despite its flaws, health care has the unique power to unite people and restore hope:

Universal Relevance: Everyone, regardless of class, race, or nationality, has a stake in their health and the health of their loved ones.
Visible Impact: Improvements in health care deliver immediate, measurable benefits: longer lives, fewer diseases, and better quality of life.
Gateway to Systemic Change: Transforming health care requires addressing broader issues like inequality, innovation, and public trust—creating a domino effect of progress.

The New Paradigm: From Reactive to Proactive Care

To rebuild health care as a source of hope, we must shift from a reactive model to a proactive paradigm that prioritizes wellness, prevention, and long-term health.

1. Focus on Health Span

What Is Health Span?
- Health span is the period of life spent in good health, free from chronic diseases and debilitating conditions.
Why It Matters:
- Extending health span reduces the burden on health systems, improves productivity, and enhances quality of life.

2. Prioritize Prevention

Preventative Care: Routine screenings, vaccinations, and lifestyle interventions to stop diseases before they start.
Education and Empowerment: Equip people with the knowledge and tools to take control of their own health.

3. Make Care Accessible

Universal Coverage: Ensure that every person, regardless of income, has access to essential health services.
Global Equity: Address disparities between nations, creating a baseline of care for all humanity.

4. Innovate for the Future

Health Tech Revolution: Leverage AI, biotechnology, and genomics to personalize care, predict illnesses, and optimize treatments.
Public-Private Partnerships: Foster collaboration between governments, researchers, and corporations to accelerate breakthroughs.

From Health Span to Life Extension

Health span is only the beginning. The ultimate goal is life extension, the ability to not only extend the healthy years of life but to push the boundaries of aging itself. This isn’t about chasing immortality—it’s about unlocking human potential.

1. The Case for Life Extension

Economic Benefits: A healthier, longer-living population reduces health care costs and boosts economic productivity.
Social Stability: Longer lives mean more time for people to contribute to society, care for their families, and pursue meaningful goals.
Human Flourishing: Life extension opens doors to unprecedented personal and societal achievements.

2. The Science of Aging

Current Breakthroughs:
- Gene therapies, senolytics (drugs that clear aging cells), and regenerative medicine are already showing promise in extending health span.
Future Possibilities:
- Advances in cellular reprogramming, organ regeneration, and nanotechnology could make aging itself a treatable condition.

3. The Long Road Ahead

Investment Needed: Life extension research is drastically underfunded. Governments and private sectors must make it a priority.
Equity and Access: These advancements must be available to everyone, not just the wealthy, to ensure public trust and global stability.

Health Care as a Beacon of Hope

Transforming health care is about more than fixing a broken system—it’s about showing people that a better world is possible. Every step toward a proactive, inclusive, and innovative health care system is a step toward restoring faith in humanity’s potential.

Conclusion: A Long Road from Hell

The road to life extension is long, but it starts here. Health care is the bridge between the despair of the present and the hope of the future. By extending health span, preventing disease, and eventually reversing aging, we can turn the tide of misery and build a world where people don’t just survive—they thrive.

This isn’t just a health care revolution. It’s the first step toward a global transformation, where the promise of progress replaces the shadow of despair. The oligarchy must lead this charge, or step aside for those who will. Because the people need hope—and health care is where hope begins.

Your call where we go from here.