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The Crisis in the Family Form
The world has way more capacity to make wealth than it is profitable to distribute. And so you have countries viciously competing over industrialization on the one hand and then a few countries making money by exporting resources like oil, commodity booms. The world peasantry has effectively been eliminated. You have billions of people looking for wage labor and a very small fraction of them finding it.