patrick.net

"Nations have lost trillions (in today's money) from theft/larceny since the 15th century and have paid many more trillions in interest.....often to the same criminals who stole these vast amounts of money. Economists that don't look at these things are like a business owner who just looks at his costs and sales without looking at the employees who are fudging their time cards and stealing money from the till and then wonders why he isn't making any profit.

It seems to me that only crimes committed on a small and moderate scale are punished; the large crimes are rarely punished. Indeed, people venerate various systems that systematically plunder whole nations and give it a name that ends in "ism" and then the big players in the system are protected and even lionized.

"We have a fundamental problem with dishonest weights and measures.... in this case, money/currency. What would happen if someone was using false scales to buy and sell grains? They would go to prison (hopefully). What happens when someone uses pieces of paper that are used to measure ones work/time/effort (money/currency) where there is built in scarcity and an inexorable decline in the value of the that paper due to its debt-based, interest bearing nature? Well, they get to live high on the hog and hire people at banks, government, and universities, who then convince everyone that this paper is good and provides security and prosperity.

The convincing of people to accept this system is a form of gaslighting done by psychopaths. We have been gaslighted so much in our lives, most people can't imagine what life would be without it.

We are bounced from one extreme to another where the "isms" fight over who will steal from whom and how much, all the while, the thieves at the top (who often develop the theories that become "isms") get more and more at the expense of the rest of us."

http://www.oftwominds.com/blogdec16/gaslight-finance12-16.html

Our entire monetary system need a complete overhaul. The 95% should insist on it.

#economics