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If the casino always wins, why is it so hard to identify who owns this[1] casino? [1] Not CS, but the entire "serious" financial system.
by TheOtherHobbes 4y ago
If the casino always wins, why is it so hard to identify who owns this[1] casino?
[1] Not CS, but the entire "serious" financial system.
- KarlKemp 4y agoWell don’t keep us guessing! What’s the secret cabal owning the financial system, according to your research, and how do they manage to own both the „serious“ business and the funny pages?
- markus_zhang 4y agoThe winners?
- snapplebobapple 4y agoMy vote goes to the Rockefellers (who are actually psychic mushroom people first discovered in caves about halfway into the hollow earth. This is why they use that last name. The first people they encountered referred to them as "them rock fellers" before they were psychically controlled.)
- pram 4y agoThose are the Fraggles, common misconception.
- snapplebobapple 4y agoCareful, this place can't take a joke, even when it is hilarious.
- weard_beard 4y agoThey’re supposed to come in threes so you know it’s a joke. Damn, I had something about Blackrock.
- notsosec 4y agoIt's not secret and it's not a cabal. It's the group of people who benefit from a collusion with governments (by funding politicians campaigns) to get constant protection of their profits through systematic, de facto or explicit, bailouts by central banks, and more generally complacent regulations. Abolish central banking and have a gold-backed financial system and they mostly disappear. You can't cheat with gold. People who say it's fundamentally unstable and the cause for deflation or whatever have so far not demonstrated that the alternative is any better.
- greatwave1 4y ago> It's the group of people who benefit from a collusion with governments (by funding politicians campaigns) to get constant protection of their profits through systematic, de facto or explicit, bailouts by central banks, and more generally complacent regulations. You'll have to be more specific. There are literally millions of people who 'fund politicians campaigns', and many of them have competing interests at stake. Is it your contention that all of these people are in on it, or only a subset? > Abolish central banking and have a gold-backed financial system and they mostly disappear. The U.S. was on the gold standard until 1971, do you have any evidence that there was no government corruption before we made that switch?
- greatwave1 4y agoWhy are you presupposing that the entire financial system is owned by one entity? Seems like a rather ridiculous assumption.
- 127 4y agoUS federal historical government spending is an exponential growth graph. As are unfunded liabilities that politicians at some point promised to pay people. EU seems pretty much the same. More gov spending, more social spending. Repeat ad infinitum. Of course, all of this wealth has to come from some place. Not the rich, because they have enough influence and connections to avoid it.
- KptMarchewa 4y agoNo, it's incredibly flat, if you consider it to be in percent of GDP.
- personomas 4y agoI totally agree with you. The socialism is unstainable. Especially as the world's population gets older and older. Socialism is not the way
- CapstanRoller 4y agoThere is zero socialism happening. Socialism is not "when the government does Stuff"
- acchow 4y agoYou may be mistaking socialism for social welfare?
- personomas 4y agoYeah, social welfare through policies of socialism.
- euroderf 4y agoRelated: "The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." -Alexis de Tocqueville