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Call me a conspiracy nut, but there appears to be a coordinated effort to destroy faith in the system that gave us all the wealth we currently enjoy. I can only assume that this is being done in the service of replacing it with... something.


There is no coordinated effort by anyone to destroy the system. The system is destroying itself by itself. The Ottoman empire fell because it couldn't keep track of its expenses. If you print money once to fix a deficit you suddenly become complacent. Now, you do it again. It doesn't seem to have much effect and the people/markets got complacent with your behavior too.

You do it again and again. Now, it's part of your "process". Let's call it Quantitative Easing. Let's also take advantage of a pandemic to print as much as we can. There is a good "reason" for that.

At some point the music stops and the system collapses. There is no conspiracy there.


The system that gave us wealth is not the system we have now


To some degree that is true, but it is definitely the continuation of the system that generated and distributed all that wealth. And the people actively undermining faith in our current system, aren't advocating a return to a less corrupted version of what we have today. It appears to be an attempt to completely condemn it.




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