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    Gustave Courbet The village maidens 1852   I intentionally start writing this mere minutes away from Fed chair Jay Powell’s latest comments. Inte
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    #48051

    Oh man, I love that Courbet painting. the colors, the lines, the love of the subject. Makes me wish I were alive in 1852.

    #48053
    Ken Barrows
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    The problem is that no mainstream pundit has offered a way to prosper with debt growing more slowly (much less not at all) than income. Thus, there is no alternative to this nonsense because debt is a sine qua non of the system.

    IMO, there are alternatives, left and right versions, but they all would involve fewer cars, fewer plane trips, etc. When everyone believes in infinite growth on a finite planet, being where we are is no surprise.

    #48055
    zerosum
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    Why would a bank do something that would not be to their benefits
    A new system is being forged ….
    The Bank of Japan by now owns half the country

    All the bankers are following the same path
    “uncharted territory”,

    There’s nothing there that benefits you, it only ever benefits bankers.

    Now, of course, if you’re a banker…..

    The bankers have got to catch up to Japan.

    What name would be given to a social/economic system owned and controlled by the banks?
    Iron chains

    #48056
    V. Arnold
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    Oh man, I love that Courbet painting. the colors, the lines, the love of the subject. Makes me wish I were alive in 1852.

    Yes! That painting is a genuine stunner…

    #48057
    V. Arnold
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    What name would be given to a social/economic system owned and controlled by the banks?
    Iron chains

    Good one zerosum, good one…

    #48058
    toktomi
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    If there was a 5-kilometer diameter meteor on a collision course with Earth, I cannot imagine that it would make any sense at all to say something like, “get rid of it”.

    The amount of energy controlled by a relatively few individuals is beyond the imagination.

    The only remotely possible solutions for anyone are personal solutions. Industrial human society is toast, and we can only hope, for what reason I cannot offer, that collapse does not include extinction.

    …but I could be wrong

    #48068
    Dr. D
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    Katniss
    –The Hunger Games, where everyone outside of Capitol lives.

    #48070
    Dr. D
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    Since it won’t load images anymore:

    “Whatever problems anyone may have with the Capitol, believe me when I say that if it released its grip on the districts for even a short time, the entire system would collapse.” — President Snow

    “It must be very fragile system, if a handful of berries can bring it down.” — –The Hunger Games, where everyone outside of Capitol lives.

    Don’t tell me, when 60,000 Americans a year are tribute to their system, while live on TV, the Caesar Flickermans jeer.

    http://literaryviews5.blogspot.com/

    #48073

    Since it won’t load images anymore:

    It’s not that. For the Detenethor (?!) the other day, you used a URL with a special character in it (#). That will never work. This time, there simply is no picture, only a website: http://literaryviews5.blogspot.com/. Give the webs a chance!

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