@SwipeWright We'll go back to traditional Marxism and the rich/poor divide. There will be endless arguments from politicians and economists about who allowed it to get so bad and what the answer is.
@elonmusk We lived in hope that more people would wake up to the financial system after 2008. Unfortunately they didn't, but maybe the aftermath of the covid largesse will do the job (with a little help from X of course).
@realDrBrendan Looks fake. If you have a loan then you will have already long-ago signed away any rights relating to the bank selling on mortgage-backed securities.
Money is a means by which we trade our stored energy for goods and services.
Inflation erodes the value of that stored energy, effectively stealing from the hard work you have done in the past.
That energy gets redistributed to someone close to the source of the money printer - a banker, a real estate agent, etc.
When the amount of energy stolen exceeds the willingness of the producer of that energy to continue producing, the currency starts to hyperinflate.
Because at that exact point, producers lose faith in the currency's ability to safeguard their work. So instead of continuing to work, they too try to get closer to the source of the money printer.
Over time, this results in less producers to meet the economy's demand for goods and services, causing prices to rise permanently.
This creates an inflationary spiral whereby producers continue to lose confidence, and continue to exit real industries to join the cabal of money printing thieves instead.
After all, why not - everyone else is doing it, and they are getting 'rich'.
This is where we stand in history today.
Everyone is now a gambler, not a producer of real goods and services the market demands.
They are gambling on their careers by not pursuing meaningful hard work, instead working for large bureaucracies that extract value rather than create it.
And they are gambling on memecoins, property and stocks - anything that might pump.
Because they have no choice.
They do not trust that the output of their productive work can be safely stored in fiat currency over time.
So they look to make a quick buck instead.
They increase their time preference, seeking to get rich before it all implodes, in effect hastening the process.
Thus begins the hyperinflationary spiral of fiat.
Eventually every single one of these people will buy Bitcoin.
Because they will realise it is the solution to the problem most of them can't even explain they have, but which they know in their heart to be true:
Their stored energy is being stolen from them, at an increasingly rapid pace.
You now have a front row seat to how economics and human psychology actually works.
Strap in, because it's going to be a hell of a ride.
@GeorgeGammon Increasing debt is just printing more money. You can do this as long as you want provided that a) you can manipulate markets, b) you can fool people with a suitable excuse for why their standard of living is dropping, and c) you can stop it going exponential...
@visegrad24 When you influence everyone for political means using Marxist techniques... a side effect has to be that they are brainwashed into thinking about everything in the same way.
@Miss_Snuffy Unfortunately for those who are pacifists, human nature presents situations where there is no choice but to fight. This is one, but heed Sun Tzu's lessons and be sure as much as possible to make it your fight on your terms, not theirs.