People miss the point .... Australians are piss poor relative to their wealth because your politicians give your natural wealth to the Empire's corporates. The Empire owns the main political parties That is what Empire is and this is its version of capitalism. As Australians you accept it because the Empire also owns the media, universities, academics, think tanks and plenty others... and they all tell you "its not perfect, but its the best version of freedom and democracy available" you sleep at night "knowing" you're better off than the socialist people they tell you to hate.