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The rioters in London are called animals and thugs for stealing while those in high leadership positions make huge sums basically the same way and are rewarded for their deceit and malfeasance.
And we wonder why nihilism is fast becoming the world's biggest philosophy in the industrialized world.
Originally posted by wcitizen
Originally posted by soficrow
The so-called "Global Financial Crisis" simply redistributed and concentrated the world's wealth into very, very few hands. Lowly wage earners are carrying the nation's debt - now $14,588,853,570,235.83 - but the rich get to sock it away.
It was engineered deliberately, and was a massive heist. It was a re-distribution of wealth from the poor to the already filthy rich.
...It's probably the biggest heist which has ever occurred on the planet.
Life isn't fair and it sucks bad sometimes. We have to try to help each other but most people are selfish and do not care.
Originally posted by Asktheanimals
Originally posted by kro32
reply to post by haarvik
It's a very slippery slope to start dictating to people how successful they can be. Who will make that decision and what qualifies them to do so.
That's exactly how the system works to keep the poor that way. The tax codes work against those struggling and the bankers decide who can and cannot obtain credit to further opportunity.
The government and banks make those decisions and what qualifies them to do so? - their wealth and positions of authority, or course.
That's exactly how the system works to keep the poor that way. The tax codes work against those struggling and the bankers decide who can and cannot obtain credit to further opportunity.
Originally posted by kro32
I believe that as long as their is one single millionaire in the world people like you would say they are the root of all evil because they simply have more than you.
Originally posted by crimvelvet
...when Nixon took the USA off the gold standard they made sure their wages kept up with inflation unlike the poor smucks in the factories and offices. In 1976 A typical American CEO earned 36 times as much as the average worker. By 2008 the average CEO pay increased to 369 times that of the average worker.
This is the nitty gritty of how the transfer is made.
New money does not appear magically in equal percentages in all people's bank accounts or under their mattresses. Money spreads unevenly, and this process has varying effects on individuals, depending on whether they receive early or late access to the new money. This was one of Mises's original contributions to monetary theory, one that is ignored by all other schools of economic analysis.... Mises argued that the losses of the late-coming losers are the source of income for the early arrival winners....
...This indicates a fundamental aspect of Mises's monetary theory that is rarely mentioned: the expansion or contraction of money is a zero-sum game.... The economic benefits obtained by the early users of new money, even gold, are made at the expense of those who gain access to it after it has altered the array of prices.... www.lewrockwell.com...
I believe that as long as their is one single millionaire in the world people like you would say they are the root of all evil because they simply have more than you.
Originally posted by kro32
reply to post by newcovenant
I do believe this is true and also what drives the NWO fear. People have to have that boogyman in the closet to blame things on and will not accept the fact that their problems may just be part of the cycle of life. They feel the need to have someone as the cause of their pain.
Certainly there is an endless amount of corruption and greed among the rich but their are also many self made people who achieved what they have. I would suggest if people are feeling so controlled that they join the wealthy and become one themselves.
It's not hard and if you are not rich or not in the process of becoming wealthy you lack one of three things:
The desire
The intelligence
The hard work
People need to ask themselves which of those areas they are failing in and address that instead of shifting blame to those that have already made it.