Part of the essential conceptual fallacy is that in our goal oriented culture, imposed on a cyclical, reciprocal reality, we have allowed the medium which enables mass society to function, money, to become the ideal against which it is judged. Consequently the goal is to siphon as much of this value out of the system, rather than enable it to effectively circulate.

Econ 101 tells us money is a medium of exchange, store of value and price setting mechanism, though the last is a function of a medium. Yet a medium is essentially dynamic, while a store is necessarily static. Blood is a medium, while fat is a store. Roads are a medium, while parking lots are a store.

As a medium, it largely functions a contract, with one side an asset and the other a debt, so in order to create the asset, similar amounts of debt have to be generated. For one thing, this creates a centripetal effect, as positive feedback draws the asset to the center of the group, while negative feedback pushes the debt to the edges. As finance functions as the value circulation mechanism of the community, this is like the heart telling the hands and feet they don’t need so much blood and should work harder for what they do get. The Ancients used debt jubilees to reset this process, but in out fast paced world, we lack much in the way of perspective.

We have become the parasite destroying our own world.

https://medium.com/discourse/the-worm-in-the-apple-of-modern-capitalism-a46081000d5a