You Are Living In An Economic Fairy Tale

The plot of "The Lion King" features Scar murdering his brother to take the throne, leading to the land's decay and starvation, while Scar remains indifferent to the consequences of his reign.

A 2006 study by Guino, published in Psychological Science, found that power literally reduces perspective-taking, which is the ability to understand another person's thoughts and feelings.

A 2008 study by Van Kleef titled "Power, Distress, and Compassion" found that participants with a higher sense of power experienced significantly less distress and compassion when confronted with another person's suffering.

Authority bias causes people to mistake wealth for wisdom, and system justification bias makes it easier to believe the system is fair than to accept it is broken.

Donald Trump served as the president of the United States.

Yuval Noah Harari, a historian and philosopher born in 1976, received a PhD from Oxford in 2002.

A Brief History of Humankind," was published in 2011 and has sold over 50 million copies worldwide.

Yuval Noah Harari states that money is not an objective reality and has no objective value, as a pound sterling or dollar bill cannot be eaten, drunk, or worn.

Barry Ferns believes rewatchable children's blockbusters and fairy tales function like scientific studies, producing empathy and providing feedback loops that extreme wealth systematically destroys.

Barry Ferns asserts that the "real world," based on status and wealth, is a fiction that humans have created and decided to accept.

Barry Ferns believes real change occurs when enough people stop privately knowing something and start acting like it is true in public, deciding that the children's movie version of the world is the correct one.