Where did all that money come from? Well, if we’re to be honest with
ourselves, it came from us. We invest, our banks invest, corporations
invest and trade, and so forth. Many of those that end up with our money
play with it, roll it around; sometimes it pays off, sometimes it
doesn’t. But the endgame has always been the same, to make as much of it
as possible. That, lest anyone has forgotten, is the entire point of a
capitalist system.
When things are good people don’t take to the streets. During the
last two decades, when the gross mismanagement that would lead to all of
this was occurring, no one was occupying anything. Insane credit levels
were rampant, mortgages low, the world a proverbial oyster. We didn’t
care who was behind the curtain or what they were up to. And that,
whether you like it or not, isn’t the fault of a handful of people. It’s
everyone’s fault.
Why? Because you can’t seriously expect a system that promotes greed
to include accountability as one of its unshakable tenets. Surely that
much is obvious.
It’s here that I’ll forgo my usual rant about the plutocratic
realities inherent within the system and how the facade of democracy is
used not unlike a pacifying lolly after one goes to the dentist. The
richest 3% of the population have controlled commerce and government for
centuries. Just because constitutions exist doesn’t mean that that
reality has ever changed.
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