Imagine that you have $10,000 to invest. You put it into savings or the stock market and hope for the best.
But what if you have $100,000,000,000 to invest? You already own the banks and you already own the best companies listed on the stock exchange. You also already own the politicians. You’ve squeezed as much profit as you can from this system but you still want larger rates of return. So you go looking for insane grifts — pandemics, chronic disease, vaccines, wars/rebuilding, and climate.
That’s the essence of the problem right there.
Yes you’re right Toby - But remember it’s as old as the Roman Empire - in fact older but we can track our history to there. I think the true order of wealth and power is as follows.
Monarchies
International bankers
Billionaires
Why? Because all the western monarchies, and some others, can track their families back 1,000-2000+ years. They’ve been raping, pillaging, and plundering the wealth of humanity for a long time. And our taxes paid for their Crown governments, which they use to control us, m…