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This weeks theme music:

Economics, plain and simple, is the collective social agreements we make in order to determine group and individual access to resources and to allocate work to individuals. It is important to note that almost all of what we conceive of as “the way things are” was once not the way things were. Money, banking, “the economy,” even “work” are all artificial abstract concepts invented by individuals to benefit themselves or their group.

In the beginning, there were no banks, no money, no economics, no credit, none of this. So when we look at our current system, it is helpful to ask: “Why was this invented?”, “Who benefitted from it when it was created?”, “Who benefits from this construction now?”, “Does this construction make sense right now?” and “Are there better alternatives?”

As it has been constructed along the way, at every step in the process, the system has been intentionally designed to benefit the relative few at the expense of the larger remaining many. At times, there have been overreaches where the system temporarily so jeopardizes the lives and lifestyles of the many that they take up arms and fight, overturning their governments, or pressuring it to limit the overreaches. This happened in the U.S. at the revolution, then later in the late 1800s and early 1900s with the labor movement. It happened in France during their revolution. It has happened in every country where the few took so much the many could no longer tolerate the leftovers.

Our economic system is designed to create and maintain the class of poor.

Forever

Think about that…

Even large-scale revolution won’t work anymore. The wealthy have rigged the global system so that a revolution in any one country, or even region, will not effect sufficient change.

So we’re going to need to try a different sort of revolution.

An economic revolution…

We’re going to have to change the rules of the game outside the system.

Hack it

More on this tomorrow…

It’s been almost six years since Jen and I produced this mini-doc. We were right, and things have only gotten worse since then.

It didn’t take long to realize that we weren’t going to solve the worlds problems by fixing politics. The banks and others in power have rigged the game too heavily in their favor. That’s their home court and they’ve bought off the refs.

So I did a deep dive into economics next. Figuring I’d have to return to trading and finance to fix the system from where the power itself lies, in money.

This too proved problematic.

Economics is even more broken…

Brindamos al Papito de Argentina para esta Pascua porque finalmente después de siglos y siglos tenemos un líder de la iglesia católica que piensa mas en los pobres que en si mismo y el poder.

Y al pueblo de Argentina, y especialmente a los Judios de Buenos Aires que han sufrido tanto por causa de los pecados de los líderes niños temerosos de Israel, los que adoran mas a la guerra que a la justicia.

Y al pueblo de Argentina que son los mas independientes en todo el mundo, salvo los Thai.

Y a los de todo el mundo que luchen para paz y igualdad, para todos.

T.O.D.O.S.

Adelante amigos

¡Vamos a la batalla!

Hoka Hey

It’s 20 years since Biggie recorded this:

Now the shit we forced on black America in the 70s has seeped out of the ghetto and into what used to be the white middle class. And it’s going to get worse…

Poverty is not what you think it is. It is something altogether more pernicious.

Occupy was just the beginning. There is a class war going on.

Full blown and ugly

Whose side are you one?

Pick any side and it ends up the wrong side.

Change is upon us and it’s time to wake up and pay some damned attention.

I’ve been on a deep dive trying to figure out why we still have poverty and curable illness and 20 million people, mostly kids die every year from the effects of poverty.

Well, with the help of a lot of really awesome ass-kicking friends, I’ve finally figured it out. You may not like what I’m about to write over the next few weeks, but I don’t really care. The truth is…

and I can’t change that.

There is much work to do and much fun to be had, or much pain, the choice is yours.