Economic Anarchy

The Physicist Who Saw Through Capitalism’s Biggest Lie

Albert Einstein argued that capitalism’s ‘economic anarchy’ creates engineered insecurity, turning technological abundance into artificial scarcity. He saw profit-driven systems as fundamentally misaligned with human welfare, and proposed a socialist economy guided by ethics—not state control, but human freedom. His 1949 essay is more relevant than ever in an age of rising inequality and automation.