If the system is so great and working so wonderfully well, why are so many banks in financial trouble?Gregg wrote:Who says it clearly doesn't work? I can go to an ATM almost anywhere on earth and get pieces of paper which I can then within a short distance trade for food, shelter, sustenance, hookers and blow.... or beanie babiesletissier14 wrote:Thanks for the lesson but I'm quite able to understand how money is created.
What I have trouble understanding is how all you experts out there are so good at explaining a system that clearly doesn't work?
The reason why the world is in a financial mess is because we use a system that is based on false premise
The reason the world is in a financial mess (a premise I don't agree with, but as much as it is) is because governments, companies, people, spend more than they can pay back without making sacrifices that they sometimes later cannot or will not make. The system is not only working but working damn well thank you very much, because outside of Somalia, North Korea and a few other pretty phucked up places, anyone with a few hundred dollars spread out into US Dollars, Euros, Yuan, Yen and Pounds Sterling can buy pretty much anything he needs to survive. And a check written in Kansas to a person in Poland can clear funds within 48 hours of being presented for payment at a bank anywhere in Europe (the bank will freeze it 10 days, but its clear in less than 48 hours)
That sounds like working to me.
You're "not working" isn't the money system, its people's income and payments problems, which is another kettle of tea.
And are banks and government, companies and people not all intertwined by money?