Here's something I think about a lot:
Remember in Candide, when they find El Dorado? Gems and gold are sitting there for the taking. Everyone is rich, but because no one is poor, it's boring, so they leave.
I think there is an El Dorado fantasy at the basis of Euro-style capitalism. There's an untapped resource out there and all we have to do is pick it up off the ground to be rich, with no costs, no labor, no consequences. But the costs are devastating and invisibilized, every time. 1/