{"id":625,"date":"2011-11-08T23:11:08","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T03:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.synapse9.com\/signals\/?p=625"},"modified":"2013-09-11T09:47:53","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T14:47:53","slug":"the-story-of-broke-part-ii-the-end-of-broke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/the-story-of-broke-part-ii-the-end-of-broke\/","title":{"rendered":"the Story of Broke – Part II (the end of broke)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The authors of \u201cThe Story of Stuff\u201d<\/a> published a nice little update called \u201cThe Story of Broke\u201d<\/a>, about the vast sums of money the government spends on subsidizing private business\u2026.\u00a0\u00a0 This sequel\u00a0\u201cPart II (the end of broke)” was first posted in a comment<\/a>, on how the still bigger story of broke, debt piling on top of debt, both was missing from the list of now overwhelming government costs, and has a … very natural end. Government debt provides guaranteed growing returns, whether the economy grows or not. Lenders take government interest payments and add them to what they lend back, multiplying their lending and returns. \u00a0 It builds up, slowly at first then explosively, as the world’s debt burden<\/p>\n

grows on little but\u00a0the good faith and credit of government guarantees<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

You’ve heard of government debt called a “safe haven”. It’s where investors put money to be “safely assured of ever multiplying returns” when they can’t find even better growing returns elsewhere. Where that debt spiral comes from and goes to has been a subject of many have tried to explain. \u00a0The view Keynes came to, that I think is the most clear headed of all, outlines the necessities for surviving a debt spiral for a market economy. \u00a0Nature would surely not shape her facts of life on earth for our approval, but most people react to the facts of life for surviving debt spirals as if to reject nature’s requirements as “socially unacceptable”, … apparently not seeing Keynes’ elegantly clear logic. \u00a0 So this is written in the story telling style of Free Range Studio in their Story of Stuff. —<\/p>\n

The End of Broke, the True Whole Story of Debt!<\/strong><\/p>\n

The BIGGER “Story of Broke” is one that starts quite small, but is designed to actually keep growing ever bigger.\u00a0\u00a0 As it does so it also casts its own vote in the story of business influence in government and demand for subsidies and preferential services, persuading government that’s the way to get money to pay its ever growing debt!\u00a0 \u00a0It’s the story of how a small amount of debt naturally grows relentlessly big, with no natural end other than either creditors spending it or both government finance and economic collapse.<\/p>\n

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The whole story of debt is a very very simple little thing.\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s that some of us earn by $units and others by $%’s… and by providing guaranteed returns to lenders, in an economy you can actually earn by $%’s till the economy collapses<\/strong>. \u00a0What seems like a totally innocent “little difference” in measurement, between units and ratios, makes AN INFINITE DIFFERENCE over time in life. Some people have called it “our misunderstanding of the exponential curve”, others simply call it “greed”.\u00a0\u00a0 The problem with this kind of greed is how very addictive it is and that it grows explosively, making a “little greed” become SO.. GREEDY, with its promise to multiply the rewards of greed forever. Greed of this kind, based on guaranteed % returns a lender can reinvest, is only designed to multiply as if forever of course<\/strong>, so the actual design is to multiply either until the whole economy has $0 profit to keep its debts from growing further (the important part Keynes figured out) or breaks down from the strain before that. \u00a0 That means it\u2019s not just you and me and our government that goes broke, by someone skimming a little profit to then use it to skim a little more and more all the time!!!<\/p>\n

What’s so very tricky about it is it becomes a whole society\u2019s addiction.\u00a0\u00a0 How it starts looks like it’s making more and more wealth FOR EVERYONE, seeming to be an ever growing \u201cfree lunch\u201d for all. \u00a0\u00a0How it ends is with all the wealth in one pile of course, a “super pile of money”, that is only used to feed the severest addiction any gambler or any society can get. It’s now in the news every day… and no one seems to have a clue where it came from.<\/p>\n

It came from a very small amount of money and continually adding small %’s That’s the addiction a gambler gets when they look at their odds and IT LOOKS LIKE THEY HAVE A SURE BET \u00a0!$!$!$!$.\u00a0 \u00a0With a sure bet WHAT PEOPLE ALWAYS DO is the most addictive thing. \u00a0They take their winnings and add them to their bets, to keep their bets “multiplying like rabbits” as the phrase goes…<\/p>\n

The only catch is that in the frenzy everyone gets so disoriented that they don’t notice that taking sure winnings from your own society brings about the collapse of its whole financial environment. \u00a0 So that’s the story of broke we really need to get across, because our “super pile of money” is still “multiplying like rabbits” with our whole society still completely addicted to feeding it.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0delusion is that it’s a\u00a0source of revenue,… not just ballooning debt to ourselves that can’t physically be paid. We’re all still addicted to pouring ever more money down the magic money hole, not looking to where the money that flows out of it has to come from. \u00a0\u00a0It has to come from us, of course.\u00a0 \u00a0It has to come from us through that completely hidden but ever inflating tax, the one you never ever get a receipt for, the hidden tax of ever growing universal debt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As we said at the top, our fate is sealed only if people remain mesmerized by its false appeal.\u00a0 The true escape from \u201clending money to use only for lending more money” (squeezing the whole economy for growing returns till it goes broke), is to require that its earnings be creatively spent instead of reinvested. \u00a0 What seems “socially unacceptable” about that is the idea of expecting anyone to actually WANT to give up a limitless source of free multiplying wealth.<\/p>\n

People would need to spend their finance earnings instead of compounding them. \u00a0That’s needed to both relieve the financial pressure on debtors by giving them earnings to help balance their books, and by also “turning off the pump” that is multiplying the lending. \u00a0It’s the one way our economy can survive it’s most deadly addiction, but so far also …socially unacceptable and so largely unstudied, a misguided social discrediting of good science with a long history.<\/p>\n

A dollar saved in the past is promised an ever growing return in the future, but\u00a0actually\u00a0would not even return $1 of value to its owners, if the society that owes those ever growing sums in the future collapses from how much it can’t pay. \u00a0 In fact that society will end up not being able to pay earnings to anyone.<\/p>\n

So, this systems physics says\u00a0it’s just like with Scrooge,<\/strong> that the surest trap of the rich is hording money for robbing the poor.\u00a0 The surest escape is the same too, for the holders of credit to discover their own humanity, and the original purpose they had in wanting more money to begin with, before they became addicted to hoarding wealth. People addicted to the false bet of their money endlessly making them ever more money, just have to rediscover the true higher values they wanted to spend it on in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The authors of \u201cThe Story of Stuff\u201d published a nice little update called \u201cThe Story of Broke\u201d, about the vast sums of money the government spends on subsidizing private business\u2026.\u00a0\u00a0 This sequel\u00a0\u201cPart II (the end of broke)” was first posted in a comment, on how the still bigger story of broke, debt piling on top … Continue reading the Story of Broke – Part II (the end of broke)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6,7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-among-best-2","category-teaching","category-mail","category-econn","category-pop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2483,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/2483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}