Since Nixon killed the gold standard (1971) and introduced fiat currency and Thatcher and Reagan brought out trickle on my head and say its raining economics (1981-1982) throughout the eighties we have been riding the boom-bust bubble machine and wealth aggregator known as late-stage capitalism ever since. Humanity has a big two-sided problem - greed and fear.
We evolved from the trees and savanahs millions of years ago; but we never left our banana scarcity mindset (the inante terror of not knowing where the next banana would come from), and thus fear and greed color literally every human action and interaction to this day. Late-stage capitalism simply allowed those with the biggest pile of bananas to write the laws to protect their piles and to steal from others' piles to augment their own, on the off-chance that having enough bananas for 100 lifetimes would not be enough somehow - or the misunderstanding that "providing for your family" was never meant to be "create a class of inheritance ghouls that earned nothing and yet inherit the power to take everything".
We allowed the advent of "Greed is good." and "capitalism as a zero-sum game" to magnify and amplify the fear and greed to the levels we have today.
What we have now is the debt bubble around the world preparing to pop. This time its not a sector (like the "Asian contagion" or (Real Estate crash of '08) and its not just the market (1929, 1987, 2008, 2020, 2025) crashes and ups and downs becoming more extreme. Its the entire foundation that is cracked and unrepairable without a massive reset and concurrent redistribution from concentrated to distriubuted wealth. Instead of recognizing that you cannot grab and hold water in your hands, the rich have built systems of hording and collection to try and keep the liquid assets as their own, and in fewer and fewer hands (because let's be honest, these cock-suckers KNOW that they are all going to rob, cheat and steal as much as possible, so the fewer people in the game, the fewer number of threats to themselves).
"Money" is a concept to facilitate trade. Its not "real". The current breakdown of laws and the concept of "Equality under the law" as a governing prinicple are the end. What reason will people have to remain in this system of oppression and wage slavery when the rule of law is gone and only the whips and chains of the dictator remain to enforce compliance? When the people band together and decide that no more is now - that no one will work, no one will "buy", no one will exploit another for their daily pittance while the rulers build pyramids and momuments and increasingly kill off everyone else - then the end cometh and soon. This system only functions when everyone buys the banana scarcity meme as ruling edict and submits. Once critical mass of noninvolvement is reached, the system implodes by sheer math and physics... again, there is no way to horde water in your hands, and when the artificials reseriors of wealth hording come down (when property law is ignored or abandoned, when courts are no longer effective to enforce laws, when the system is seized up entirely), the center cannot hold. Things WILL fly apart and all the pretending and ignoring and shoring up of artifical barriers will not last long.
When humans realize that the key things for satisfying life are NOT a bigger house, a fancier car or more exotic jewelry; NOT having more than the neighbors, but actually having neighbors that are extended family instead of enemies taking away your banana shares; and that food, shelter and reliable, fulfilling community and kinship (through family, club, clan or country) are 95% of what makes life worth living at all, then a paradigm shift and breaking free of the current bondage becomes possible.
We can have peace and prosperity or we can continue to have exploitation and deprivation to service the unchecked greed of the ruling monkeys. We cannot and will not have both much longer though.
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