Of course throughout human history there has always been slavery, and the primary motivation for having slaves is to extract an economic benefit from those that are enslaved. And even though most of us don’t like to think of ourselves as “slaves” today, the truth is that the global elite are extracting more wealth from all of us than ever before. So much of our labor is going to make them wealthy, and yet most people don’t even realize what is happening.

Let’s start with a very simple example to help illustrate this. When you go into credit card debt and you only make small payments each month, you can easily end up paying back more than double the amount of money that you originally borrowed. So where does all that money go? Well, of course it goes to the financial institution that you got your credit card from, and in turn that financial institution is owned by the global elite. On a much larger scale, the same thing is happening to entire nations.

Here in the United States, we have been on the greatest debt binge in the history of our nation since the last financial crisis. US government debt has more than doubled, state and local government debt has ballooned to ridiculous proportions in much of the nation, corporate debt has doubled, student loan debt has more than doubled, auto loan debt just keeps hitting new record highs, and US consumers are now 14 trillion dollars in debt.

Our mountain of debt has become so colossal that the only way to keep the game going is to borrow even more money, but by borrowing more money we make our enslavement even worse. Meanwhile, those that are holding our debt just continue to live the high life as they laugh all the way to the bank.