Yo Bro

Remember when you were telling me that this whole economic depression thing we're going through is engineered by the man? For those of you who weren't sucking from that bottle of whiskey, the story goes that the banker clique maintains control of the vast majority of wealth and means to success, allows the working class to build up the means of production and wealth for a while, and then after engineering a stock, debt, or income crisis lets us all fall down while they reap the dividend rewards of our interim success. We, the people, after a period of slipping and sliding, pick up, and keep on truckin'. We start again, to keep making money for the man, to reach a certain pinnacle, only to be let down again.

Okay, well this is a perspective. But what if it's true? But not the way you're thinking. Not in a negative way, in a necessary way.

Wasn't it not long ago that we were looking around us at all the opulence that became the American Dream? The cars and the McMansions and the wealth poured into things and events? Were we not convinced that these upper middle class men were just overpaid and overvalued, and really had nothing going for them above their mechanic, working class brothers than situational luck?

Perhaps the fall of these men is a necessity of a truly strong economy. Now look to the "poor" but unencumbered. Those who haven't spent beyond their means and acquired beyond necessity. These people didn't really take the tumble did they? Like the banker clique they aren't the ones who were overstretched and are now destroyed by the crumbling of a bubble. Once the working class picks back up, and the economy follows suit, these people will actually have stepped up a rung on the ladder. They didn't fall back, they didn't suffer, and in the end are rewarded for their long-term prudence.

Maybe what you're seeing truly is capital manipulation by a banker class but is also the actual operation of true capitalism: survival of the fittest even in engineered catastrophe.

We need another bottle of whiskey.

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