sometimes I get mad when the Taco Bell menu is trying out new specialties and some of you don’t take them seriously enough and then Taco Bell takes them away
So you’re telling me we got the rest of the world to do the lowest value, lowest profit margin, most capital intensive, and most cyclical parts of economic activity.
And in exchange, they gave our companies the cheapest priced goods in the world to resell and thrive off of. Which then gave our companies the time to pursue the actual high value parts of economic activity (you know, like Silicon Valley, Wall Street, military R&D, etc).
And all we had to do was give them IOU’s for an imaginary currency unit that we would only ever pay them back in worthless real terms in, if we ever repaid them at all.
And… we were the ones that demanded this system come to an end?
"They’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your fuckin' retirement money. They want to give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street."