The Role of Surplus Humanity in the Crisis of Capitalism

Sally Kohn: Global inequalities have never been more acute since we've kept data for the last 200 years. In 2031, 54% of humanity controls now 54% of the world's wealth and 20% of humanity that sector of humanity can actually survive in global capitalism controls 95%. She says if 80% of humanity cannot consume, cannot consume, then the transnational capitalist class cannot make profit because it doesn't make a profit until those goods and services are actually unloaded into the global market. So you have a situation where the global product, you know, economy is expanding, but the global market cannot absorb that expansion. And so that's linked to the issue of surplus humanity that cannot