I'm basing this on reality, not on anything the media writes. In fact, the media never writes about this fact of economic reality. If you study American (and hence world) economics of the 70's from when we went off the Gold standard ( 1972 i.e. back when paper money was last backed by actual gold) you will understand exactly what I'm talking about. Once the value of our money became arbitrarily set via the Fed's fiat metric and controlling of interest rates you can see exactly what happens. (The Fed is a private company btw, not a government entity, go figure.)
You can see what happens after Nixon and the removal of the gold standard. Carter eventually gets in and inflation soars. People with money in the bank were making upwards of 13% because the thinking in the financial industry was still wrapped around the idea that paper money had value. You can see that value drop as corporations grow and the Fed figures out how to manipulate interest rates to the point that banks don't have to pay anything to borrow money. Our entire economy flips and it becomes more profitable (for the big wigs) to invest in the stock market than it does to save actual money.
This was designed to happen.
Just look at the 2000's. The devaluing of paper money is inversely related to the rise of the stock market. People no longer saved money for retirement. They had been conned by the financial system to invest their IRA's and 401K's in the stock market. Why do you think the world freaked out in 2008 when the shit hit the fan? Why do you think leaders like Pres. Bush used phrases like "Too big to fail" as a justification for bailing out Wall Street? Because instead of having actual money in savings accounts people had long ago been conned into investing in the stock market.
This is all a corporate scheme. Having profitable interest rates for savings accounts is counter productive to the designs of the corporate banking system.
This isn't rocket science. If you truly want to understand the state we are in right now study
economic history. Numbers never lie. Numbers. Never. Lie.
Of course the media isn't going to tell you this. The media is a gigantic corporate monstrosity itself. And it's too stupid to even begin to comprehend economic realities. I mean really, do you expect people like Anderson Cooper to understand and disseminate economic truths to the hoi polloi? The man is a walking, talking dildo. And I say that in all seriousness. The media isn't reporting shit about economics or even finance. Mostly because the average idiot isn't interested in hearing about that stuff. And the people in front of the cameras are employed by, and invested in, giant corporations.
Sorry to say but you guys who think that corporations are going to disappear when the Millenials mature are mistaken. All that Millenials know is corporate related. The universities that they all graduated from are giant corporations. Where they shop, what they do for both work and entertainment, and even the myriad electronic devices that they use non-stop all day, everyday are corporately connected. Millenials will never disconnect from the corporate mindset. Remember those Occupy Wallstreet nimrods? Yeah, each and every one of them is a corporate hand puppet in ways they don't even know.
So, yeah, Weyland Yutani isn't a fictional corporation in a dystopian movie series. It's a legit cautionary tale for our future.
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