People need to realize that there are Forces embedded in the Fabric of the Universe, which we cannot control. At best we can contemplate them and act accordingly!
RE: The Economic System Will Slowly Shift, Not Collapse
I **totally** agree that wealth cannot be destroyed nor created and my conclusion is that any form of speculation will end in tears therefore. I also agree that humans must learn to be responsible for what IS. I blog a lot about this.
I never favored conspiracy theories for 3 simple reasons. One is that I think the government is pretty much incapable of doing anything. Second, correlation is not causation and the vast majority of conspiracy theories seem to be based on hearsay correlations.
sorry I beg to differ, human history is filled with financial crises and boom and bust cycles, ALL man-made... why? because everybody FOLLOWS the money, and the top does it at the expense of the masses. Conspiracies a facts of life, they are the norms. Right now there is a huge trial in EU against the biggest automakers which colluded in order to fool the "carbon foot print" of the diesel emission, WV, Mercedes, and 3 others. See article: Now we can't trust car giants on miles per gallon either: After VW scandal, Mercedes and BMW accused over fuel efficiency Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3252717/Now-t-trust-car-giants-mpg-VW-scandal-Mercedes-BMW-accused-fuel-efficiency.html#ixzz4p41F7bfu
The only conspiracy in the world is 'ignorance versus knowledge': to make the masses believe that chasing money brings about happiness, but since it does not, the destructive side effect of this mantra helps the top to harvest and speculate on the losses of average Joe and Jane. And that is how the wealth transfer operates, by inertia. The deception is embedded in monetarism itself. This is the central argument for a money-free society.
Following the money causes COLLUSION... and collusion causes CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD or/and KILL. Events just happen... like what, life just happens out of the blue? My feeling is that you may be missing the most important part of the puzzle and which is the 'metaphysical element' of the Grand illusion. Nothing happens by accident. If you understood this element, you wouldn't say that events just happen. Seeking profits, the mentality of profit making. is at the core of all our ills, because as you put it wealth cannot be created nor destroyed.
The belief that the system will collapse stems primarily from people who group events and ideas into a correlational matrix. We are all opportunists. We all seek profit. Some events just happen.
Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan Ominously Warns That The Biggest Bond Bubble In History Is About To Burst -- August 4, 2017
http://investmentwatchblog.com/former-fed-chairman-alan-greenspan-ominously-warns-that-the-biggest-bond-bubble-in-history-is-about-to-burst/
I disagree with the slow shift theory of yours
A Guide to Basic Income: Frequently Asked Questions about UBI
It all remains to be seen, because keynesian theories always work good on paper. As a metathinker and very aware of the economic shenanigans over the centuries, all monetary systems have proven that value is entirely subjective, and that is why they all fail. Same for any expectations which all fall short because time is too subjective. Time and value cannot be quantified.
When I said "our" corporation, I was being kind of cynical. But I am very concerned about any system that gives a free pass to corporations that have committed the worse humanitarian crimes and are still unpunished. There cannot be healthy system without restarting from scratch,
FROM SCOTT SANTENS ARTICLE ... Elsewhere, where basic income experiments have been actually tried and studied, the result in each case is increased entrepreneurship. People use their basic incomes to invest in themselves and their futures, creating new businesses and helping to drive the economy beyond what would be possible without it. This means more people competing for basic income dollars, with better goods and services and lower costs. https://medium.com/basic-income/wouldnt-unconditional-basic-income-just-cause-massive-inflation-fe71d69f15e7
Here comes a major flaw. I completely disagree here as there won't be any possibilities to start up new business, competition will grind to a halt with automation/robotics/megacomputers taking over most jobs. Even hedge fund managers and surgeons will lose their jobs.
Investing in their future? The only future that exists is that humans will have to show their creativity with 3D printers, computers and support their veggie urban garden, which have began to pop a little bit everywhere already... we are headed for a future that will be driven by Creativity, Empathy and feeding ourselves without the need for any corporations, a voluntarist society. The competitive game is over. And the sooner we grasp this the better for the transition. A highly advanced society is de-materialzing the meaning of life, which so far has been about hunting money. That is the end of the paradigm. Continuing down this paradigm will lead to the total enslavement to the Hive Mind Cloud.
I fundamentally disagree with the word 'competition' , that are our darwinian frameworks that led us on the edge of the abyss in the first place so why continuing with the same faulty logic? I could go on and on, but it is my understanding so far is that UBI supporters have a poor grasp of the immutable Forces are play in the Universe, which is why I am drafting the metaphysics and metaphilosophical guidelines for a money-free and futuristic society.
Human emotions being ruled by physics, Earth Custodians call for the adoption of a different way of thinking to promote conflict resolutions. Different but not new, because such concepts were already debated two thousands years ago: they are keys to grasp the unhealthy mechanics driving people's need for power structures, and as how to overcome them as well. Mainstream Psychology is on its death bed. Thank you in advance for resteeming and upvoting!!
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