• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    It’s almost like those things are important somehow.

    Of course losing your keys is a big deal, what absolute nonsense is this?

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        11 months ago

        There is no form of currency that doesn’t sound absurd when you phrase it a certain way.

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      11 months ago

      The best absurdity is global finance … the idea and belief that there is trillions of dollars worth of promised wealth everywhere yet the majority of it doesn’t exist, except as promissory funds or glorified paper IOUs, yet we have so much faith in it that that belief is what runs our modern world.

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        11 months ago

        If you have a dollar, and lend it to me, and I lend it to my friend Alice, we have 1 dollar, but the total debt is 2$.

        Nobody is claiming there are trillions of wealth around. But there are trillions worth of debts. Because countries, companies and people lend to each others a lot.

        How’s that absurd?

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          11 months ago

          Then Larry asks for $2 and that indebted $2 becomes $4 for Larry who now lends it to Steve who can now say he has $4 but now there is $8 worth of debt … all from $1 along a long chain of people promising to pay things back, even though they have can’t.

          Multiply that by trillions and now we have a long line of debt that is impossible to ever repay and the only way to maintain the system is to keep making promises to more people and institutions that it will be repaid back. An article I read about this scenario years ago estimated that if all global debt was halted today, no more loans were made and everyone and every institution was told to start paying back everything at a minimum amount … it would take millions of years to completely pay off everything.

          Nobody likes it being said and everyone claims it isn’t so but in other circles … it’s called a Ponzi scheme … where a scam artist takes your money and promises to make it grow by promising it to other people in an every longer chain of people with ever increasing amounts of money … the only way to stop it is to uncover the scheme and force everyone to accept the corrupt absurdity of it all

          If we all took a step back and lost faith in the financial and banking world … all of it would come crashing down. It isn’t a system built on wealth and money … it’s a system of faith … and as long as keep believing in it … it keeps working.

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        11 months ago

        I seem to remember one techno-Asian-dystopia book that may have highlighted this, where every week all the major banks have a ceremonial exchange of tons of gold bricks, as a proof to solidify their claims of having money that’s owed/exchanged.

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    11 months ago

    Holy shit it’s been long since I read three panel soul and they are still going huh? Cool stuff