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Related: About this forumDavid Korten: When Bankers Rule the World
from YES! Magazine:
When Bankers Rule the World
How we can call out the myths, restructure the banking system, shut down the con game, and take back America.
by David Korten
posted Mar 29, 2012
The tell-all defection of Greg Smith, a former Goldman Sachs executive, provided an insiders view of the moral corruption of the Wall Street banks that control of much of Americas economy and politics. Smith confirms what insightful observers have known for years: the business purpose of Wall Street bankers is to maximize their personal financial take without regard to the consequences for others.
Wall Streets World of Illusion
Why has the public for so long tolerated Wall Streets reckless abuses of power and accepted the resulting devastation? The answer lies in a cultural trance induced by deceptive language and misleading indicators backed by flawed economic theory and accounting sleight-of hand. To shatter the trance we need to recognize that the deception that Wall Street promotes through its well-funded PR machine rests on three false premises.
1. We best fulfill our individual moral obligation to society by maximizing our personal financial gain.
2. Money is wealth and making money increases the wealth of the society.
3. Making money is the proper purpose of the individual enterprise and is the proper measure of prosperity and economic performance.
2. Money is wealth and making money increases the wealth of the society.
3. Making money is the proper purpose of the individual enterprise and is the proper measure of prosperity and economic performance.
Wall Street aggressively promotes these fallacies as guiding moral principles. Their embrace by Wall Street insiders helps to explain how they are able to reward themselves with obscene bonuses for their successful use of deception, fraud, speculation, and usury to steal wealth they have had no part in creating and yet still believe, as Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein famously proclaimed, that they are doing Gods work. .....................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.yesmagazine.org/blogs/david-korten/when-bankers-rule-the-world
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David Korten: When Bankers Rule the World (Original Post)
marmar
Mar 2012
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xchrom
(108,903 posts)1. Du rec. Nt
freshwest
(53,661 posts)2. Good to see another piece by Korten.
mother earth
(6,002 posts)3. Wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross - muppets take notice.
"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws."
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Tray
(1 post)4. beliefs of the "fat cat"
The problem isn't that the bankers believe this. The problem is, due to propaganda techniques, ordinary citizens who know better fall for such nonsense.