Thriller wrote:You want to elaborate on the point you made where you said;
playing this game removes money from real tangible production
WHile they leverage thses loans, the extra capital generate is being reinvested into companies, and commodities in the exchange right?
How are they taking more than giving back?
A lot is reinvested, but a lot also just goes round and round like a snowball effect gathering more money into one place, the hands of those perpetuating the system.
As for what is reinvested, look closer at where it is reinvested, the older 'developed nations' and economies rely more and more on banking while draining money from and watching on as their own real economic bases, the production and supply of services deteriorate. These product and services gaps are filled my the newer developing nations where labour costs are cheap, lesser regulations on pollution, health & Safety and provision for the future make for bigger profits. These newer developing nations are where the money is reinvested for more quick profits, places like Brazil who think they are doing well now but as they they develop they will also be abandoned in favour or lesser nations.
I could rant on all night and write a 1000 pages going into proper detail but whats the point ? Bottom line is the system stinks, it's short sighted and will ruin us all. Like I said many times, live for today, because tomorrow is fracked

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