I know I am a bit forward with a slight provocation
The economy is a dead end!
Knowing full well what it can mean to say something like this. Still as we are now within the financial system we have we are at a stand still or deadlock. Could it be that money as we knew it is disappearing and leave us with nothing but a bi or byte to chew on. Our values are diminishing while our greed keeps growing. Just a though from a black crow
Just a quick something.
The economy damages the people!
I might use hard words or seem harder than one might think. Yet we are always concerned about money. It drives us, it is our number one priority in our lives. But how important is it really. Is it all that matters. Does it stop us from thinking of others and other things? Worries piling up to the point we see no other way out.
Money is a piece of paper that used to be have a value that was measured by gold. Once controlled by true markets instead of banks and money owners. Funny to see thought that I mentioned a market society when a true market society won’t ask the tax payer to help a bank back on its feet. Just because a government said so. But we have become a big consumers driven by an artificial rate of interest. Just lowering the interest has made it easier for people to loan some money but what if the rate goes back up. How would we fare then with all our debt.
So we have let go of a measuring instrument at some time. And started manipulation of interest rates and even the value of money. When we look closer to money the value are a bit not even a byte, and in our hands had the same value as confetti.
Sure it says a Dollar or Euro but due to so much printing it has been reduced to almost zero.
Ever since the 70’s a crisis in the 80’s and last time in 2008 when a bank fell down. I mean bank the institute that should service us with keeping money safe. The interest given was made by the interest they received by loans. But we gave banks more power and see a government to hold a finger in this porridge and stir to their content.
Just wanting to print money to rage a war for example. It reduces money to nothing. African countries have been a great example of that. And even a great country like the USA have invested a lot of money in wars that never will return into the economy. Can we truly justify that kind of spending?
Burning money and letting it go up in smoke reduce to the air we breath.
It is a small example and maybe a low blow but how far has it gone.
In earlier times gold was the standard to which paper got their value from. It was the back bone of the economy. Now we have more bits and bytes rushing through the internet and in clouds than we have gold in vaults. And with that has gold prices go up to even around 1200 Dollar an ounce. Though that is only in word as money pretty much lost its value.
But how could it have lost value. The market has a principal that when the demand is higher than the ???? it takes more pieces of paper to buy. Gold is the same thing. Demand is higher than we can transfer as I mentioned before there is more money going around than the gold can handle.
It suggests that we still have gold as a solid value. But it isn’t solid any more due to us playing with interest rates.
Here in Europe it means that we have a crisis and one guy controlling the banks, printing more money keeping rates low except for Greece. Every one benefits right? Most countries have a debt and low interest rates means that a lot of people would have to pay less taxes to pay of the interest. Yet that is not the case. Because when money doesn’t have any value it means we still need to pay a lot in numbers. Instead of just one piece of paper we have to give a hundred.
For to long now have been changing the ruler or other measuring device to match our needs and directions. Instead of letting the economy measuring itself against a set standard.
Imagine if we change the ruler so it would match perfectly to a single inch instead of a 1.2. It is crazy to think we can do so with money. If a gallon is a gallon we can’t make it in a litre just because we want it to be. But with money we change the rules. We can say one dollar becomes two. If it will keep books balanced.
We play with money and change rates as if it means nothing. Worthless pieces of paper getting a price. And we pay the price when they loose their set value.
It has become unfair that we need to keep economy turning and getting banks back on their feet. What happened to the responsibility for their own loss. Why does that have to fall down on to the consumers and taxpayers.
When we have a company or business we need to also take responsibility of loss instead of relying on new formed laws and rules that have a government safe their asses or better yet the taxpayer. In some ways our economy has taken on distorted forms and has blind sighted us from the real issues and problems.
But this comes from an normal city kid with no education in economics or any other kind for that matter. This is an opinion based on what i see and read. Financial newspapers, news and even the internet. Give it some thought on why we need to safe a bank… Why the government has decided to safe those companies who are on the brink of going bankrupt.
Would it be okay to let it all implode and start all over again. I do not have an answer but it might be not so bad as we think. Also what is a byte worth or what is electronic money worth? If it is nothing than a written bit and byte it is worthless. Yet we believe it to be obsolete.
Yes Progress comes from change, though if the change is made artificially so would the progress be.
What is it about money?
Our greed for profit has our economy on a tight budget!
Could it be that our way of thinking and wanting profit has people being poor.
Words such as biological, natural, green or organic. hey are words that are the trigger for the past year or so and future. Being told it is better for us and the environment. Eating healthier food to prolong our years o living and lower medicine cost. Knowing that all we eat had a decent life and we are helping the future by preserving the planet for generations to come. So we also drive electric, use power saving gadgets and light bulbs.
We are going in a good direction is what one would say, but I would not be the moaning crow if I would not take a look at another side of this story. Thinking positive is a good thing, keep looking forward a must, but we can however question the past and learn form it. hat si called progress and change.
Though I question that change. Like why now and not years ago. And we need to start somewhere.
So let us start with the food industry. An industry that uses smart advertising to fool our brain. More and more we are being bombarded with term as mentioned in the beginning. Biological. Natural. Now soon as we see that we are told it is better for our bodies our way of living. I on the other hand would wonder and ask why we are turning the clock back about 25 years.
I can remember that time, eating fresh grown veggies as is being promoted again today. What changed so much that today it is called biological or organic grown. So what, now it is grown without extra fertilizers? Keeping the electric bill low in the greenhouse. No use of insecticides. Or antibiotics in the meat industry how thy were freely roaming the fields instead of being boxed all day before slaughter.
Now we have become worried that our efforts and fears were wrong so we need to change back to what we once had. But most of all it is having an economic influence. As it raises prices of those products.
But back to he grown veggies. Years ago we came with a plan to grow them greenhouses, so we could produce enough for everyone in a controlled environment. Some things like grains were still grown out on the fields but needed spraying because of bugs eating it before harvest and making sure here was enough left. We have come to a conclusion that some pesticides are not good for us, and the use of greenhouses made sure we needed to urn more coals for electricity. None good for health and the environment.
Going back however means putting people out of business or have them produce so much they can keep the prices down. It will come to a point where green might become to expensive for some populations. More so in the last crisis years where we seen a gap of rich and poor grow bigger.
Does this mean we should stop the effort, No, but if one is prepared to give up some things they can size down and do it themselves.
None the less the stickers on veggies and food products is a fact. God this is turning into a bigger story than I thought.
Biological and natural. It makes you wonder what we have been eating before. As far as theorising goes a plant has always been biological and natural. We now just see the term to say how it grew. But even that in the concept of biology is natural. I mean everything grows. That we put some extra in the water to make the grow process slightly faster. Or do some research and change its DNA to make it grow bigger. How natural do you think would be the tomato these days f we know that they have been manipulated. That soybeans have been changed so much they are almost artificial. Or as they are described sometimes as, Biotech food.
Going back in time and grow things like we used is not going to happen, we most likely will create more biotech food to make grains and wheat insect proof. Making sure they will grow in most environments. How green or how organic is that.
There is another argument that one could ask when you see that sticker. I mentioned the ‘What about what they gave us before” If they say they are “Now using natural sugars”. But here is another to question how biological we could be if one knows that plants suck up water from the ground. And let us be honest, we have not taken goo care of this planet with our pollutions.
It is simply asking whether or not the veggies or plants we grow are all that healthy as claimed. What if the soil was n good? Can one proof it was okay the moment of harvest or before. It is al a bit pessimistic but we o fall for the tricks of advertising. And are willing to pay the extra dollar per kilo for it. After all it is all over the networks and in every magazine.
Again I am not saying it isn’t a good progress but the way it is brought to us is very much deceiving. How much of it is believable? More natural sugars. Organic grown.
Maybe we should go back to hunting, or keeping a pen with some pigs and cows. That way we can monitor ourselves what we eat and what we feed out animals. It does however mean getting your hands dirty.
Sometimes I wonder why we changed so much then, introducing fast food and pre-made meals. Tin cans and boxes of food for our own convenience. And now we are having to be taught to eat our veggies as it proofs to be more healthy. Learning to cook real food and taking time to prepare, in a world that is to busy in there rush of life.
How much importance do we truly put to our health and are we willing to take the time to pursue it. Or are we going to sit back and hope the industry comes up with a quick fix so we can eat healthy and not loose time preparing it? Keep looking at the stockers and assume or grab the cow by the horns and make a difference.
Time will tell. How do you look at the stickers or do you grow your own vegetables?
Best wishes
Ranting Crow
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