Biffer wrote: Tue May 14, 2024 12:40 pm
David in Gwent wrote: Tue May 14, 2024 12:38 pm
Biffer wrote: Tue May 14, 2024 12:23 pm
So you think something we're using now was designed in the early 1800s with some kind of idea of what the world would look like today? They knew we'd have advanced computing to create the financial tools that are used in markets now? They saw democratisation and the upsurge in property ownership 150-200 years before it happened and put in place a system to maximise the debt people took on to do it? They envisaged lending sums four or five times bigger than their salary to the working classes who were running industrial machinery in their factories? Understood that there'd be a disposable society financed by short term debt where people would want the latest electronic device so would keep themselves in hock permanently to get new, new, new all the time? Predicted the invention of the motor car and the way car financing would work to do the same?
You asked for a starting point, I gave you one.
Is it a scam or not?
Is what a scam? The banking system from 1800?
Or just you, trolling around and wasting people's time? That's the most obvious scam here
Alternatively you should consider the scam is these conspiracy theories you've dug yourself into. But you're so deep into them now that you'll never get out.
You seem to be losing your cool, first accusing me of changing the subject, which I didn't, then accusing me of changing the goal posts, which I haven't. Calm the fuck down.
The financial system is a scam and benefits a relatively small amount of people whilst creating misery for billions.
So on the one hand we have a few people controlling trillions and trillions of debt whilst on the other hand believing that there could never be a cabal controlling the world through war and politics.