Looking at the World as 1-Corporation...an ugly monster

[Tilikum Turbo]

I once heard a quote:"corporations are like Monsters...they MUST keep growing or they will die"

China, Japan, USA and many other countries are artificially propping up their economies to keep growth in this now global economy.

Is the World now like a single corporation, about to financially implode?

[Porsche-O-Phile]

This is a function of usury. The world economy has been artificially stoked for decades on debt (borrowed money) and the individuals who lent it have an expectation of being repaid with interest (usury), hence the ever-accelerating drive to whip up more consumption, more spending, more demand and... more debt.

Do you have a bank account? Investments? A 401k? Then you're part of the problem too. You (and I) are part of the evil "them" that we owe money to and who keeps us on our own perpetual debt treadmills. You (and I) expect interest and in fact we require it be paid to us so as to not realize losses. This (times a few hundred million other people) creates the Catch-22 requirement for perpetual growth. If it doesn't happen, we get financially harmed, irate, angry and motivated to the point where we'll demand new leadership to restore our expectations of "prosperity" (hmm... does this sound like "let's make America great again" perhaps?)

The system has been put in place deliberately and the only way to ever stop it will be for us to collectively say "it's fine - we'll take our losses now and change the system to something sustainable and actually sane". Nobody seems willing to do this so perversely we keep hurtling along until we WILL hit a point where he system collapses under its own weight - unable to produce enough demand / consumption to pay the interest on yesterday's consumption. At that point change will be forced - so we either take our lumps willingly, now (not gonna happen) or when the system breaks (undoubtedly more catastrophic and painful). Most people give you a vapid stare when you even start a conversation about the nature of money and a sound money system. Their eyes glaze over and you can tell all they're thinking about is NFL football scores or the latest "Dancing with the Stars" episode or perhaps what shiny Chinese-made trinket they want to buy at WalMart that evening. As Pogo aptly said, "we've met the enemy and he is us".

Ours is ultimately a suicidal and foolish system - it will eventually fail but the method / mechanism (whimper or bang) is unclear, as is what will replace it. I'm hopeful that a sound money system and what I call an "honest economy" (one that does not use debt / borrowing to artificially inflate demand) will emerge from the ashes but sadly during my time on this rock I've observed that humans are frightfully stupid and incapable of learning from past mistakes ("this time's different!") so while I do hold out hope, I realize it's probably not going to work out that way.

This is what happens when you allow bankers to rule the world.

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Shhhhhhhh.... Don't be speakin' dat crazy talk. It's monday morning and I've gotta get a whole week with the illusion everything is okay, and the week after that, and the week after that.

[sc_rufctr]

Right now at the G20 our "smartest" people are talking about how to increase consumption and growth.
Meanwhile Japan has just slipped back into a recession and China continues to do poorly.

We're in trouble but I think most of the coming pain will be felt in Asia.
Europe is hurting but their poorer countries are used to going without.
What worries me more is the German economy.
If that went bad we'd be in real trouble.

The problem as I see it is that this so called global economy is not working and no one knows how to fix it.

[tabs]

How long will it be before you will come and want to talk to me? I don't think in terms of positive or negative, or what might be (illusory dreams) but just what is and will be.

Anybody who promises you a rose garden is lying to you.

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

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The system has been put in place deliberately and the only way to ever stop it will be for us to collectively say "it's fine - we'll take our losses now and change the system to something sustainable and actually sane". Nobody seems willing to do this so perversely we keep hurtling along until we WILL hit a point where he system collapses under its own weight - .

No one (including) is willing to do it now because they'd be out on a limb. It would be like that fraternity initiation scene in Animal House WHACK! "Thanky ou sir may I have another?" But never getting into the club.

You may be correct but the way for this to happen is for everyone to takethe shot. And that won't happen until the house comes down on everyone.

[widebody911]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

Do you have a bank account? Investments? A 401k? Then you're part of the problem too.

But if you don't participate in the institutionalized gambling Ponzi scheme known as "Wall Street" you can expect to be living in a cardboard box when you "retire." If you dare speak out against the scheme, you're labelled a commie or a socialist.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by Tilikum Turbo

I once heard a quote:"corporations are like Monsters...they MUST keep growing or they will die"

China, Japan, USA and many other countries are artificially propping up their economies to keep growth in this now global economy.

Is the World now like a single corporation, about to financially implode?

People who dislike corporations as a general rule are either mush-heads who were easily brainwashed, or are just too simple-minded to understand.

Personally I think that thousands of people working together to bring consumers a product or service that improves the customer's standard of living and provides a decent living for the employees is a thing of beauty.

Another beautiful thing is that corporations can grow or shrink to meet the consumer's needs.

Anyone who says otherwise just doesn't comprende.





from $14 to $116 in 5 years.

[Dantilla]

The trouble with corporations is the same trouble with government: They're run by people!

[widebody911]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

Personally I think that thousands of people working together to bring consumers a product or service that improves the customer's standard of living and provides a decent living for the employees is a thing of beauty.

Arbeit macht frei!