Moneybag Logic

Excellent follow-up to the previous post.

I will try to use "the moneybags" - in German "die Geldsäcke" - as a handy name for "the powers that be", "the oligarchs", "the cult", a.s.o. It is actually quite self-explanatory and ideology-neutral. And it almost implies the (in most cases, as you pointed out) self-destructive nature of the insatiable greed they are driven by. Thank you for that.

A bag-full, bag-full of thought here.

Any organization - based on humans I assume here - has to have a leadership that "inspires" it's human resources,, to the point, in the case of a country, that the humans are ready to sacrifice their lives. But when you have a leadership that puts all its energy firstly on making money and striving for power, their organization (a country or company or other) can only be weak. But, as you say, they don't care a bit.

Anyway....it's a very big topic.

The moneybags want CBDC's, since they have blownup the validity the current money. Moneybags snuffling for new truffles. Moneybags farts and grunts.

My father said all these things 60 years ago. A bit ahead of his time, but he saw the writing on the wall. He fled the US, moved to a crossroads town in rural Canada and lived out his life there. He didn't understand that it takes a long time to blow all the wealth this country accumulated over the previous centuries, but he was comfortable and happy. He did educate his children about it, writing extensively about the true nature of politics and economics. Your comments are timely, Dmitri. The results of all this abuse are coming on us like a storm. It will be something like the crash of the USSR, except that we are not as resilient as the Russians, do not have the natural resource base(long since used up) and don't have any smart, honest, logical leaders, i.e Harris and Trump for example. Some people are slowly awakening and realizing just how futile voting and saving(in dollars!) really is and are preparing but they are few and far between. I shudder for my grandchildren.

money bags are everywhere running every country no one has escaped. soon they will unleash AI controls. not sure what the answer is. only worry for future generations.

What to do? Serve God, not Mammon. The servants of Mammon will get their due in due time.

I don't think money bags are idiots. just many have no moral compass and use wealth to reinforce narcissistic psyches rather than contribute to the greater good. wealth sharing appears to be a difficult problem for all societies. government is beholden to wealthy people every where. there are endless examples. people with strong ethics are not heard enough and thinkers like you, who share different points of view with quite a wicked sense of humour, are not heard from often. I really enjoy reading your perspectives on issues and do hope the AI is idiot squared.

"But what if that control slips through their fingers?" ~ Dmitry Orlov

"Saw his past

He had dug for trust

With blind infected hands

And wondered as the hurt bit hard

Why the sacred weren't at hand..."

~ Indigo Eyes, by Peter Murphy