As the planet warms up, as the US economy is being held hostage, as the world is basically going bonkers (Aussie vernacular meaning mad, absurd, delirious demented, foolish, idiotic, frenzied, kooky, nutty) in many places as usual, should it not be time to reflect on our idiocy — er, I mean legacy... ?...

May be it's time for a beer.

The capitalist system has flaws. And we can clearly see them now in action... It works like this : some people print money, some people hate the people printing money. Money is printed so that it can be used to fuel the economy, but the people who hate the printing of money, also love the values of capitalism to extreme. Contradictions galore.

They have created their own little wealth by busying themselves with people printing money but they don't want to admit that, claiming that "it was hard work or savvy investments" — being completely deluded that the value of their investments "or work" was only backed up by people printing more money... They also stand proud with these achievements  of looting and want everyone to fend for themselves (like they think they did it "on their own") even if they know this is not possible.

The poor, the sick, the infirm cannot survive without some help — beyond charity. They need a strong social helping hand. In the capitalist system, a nominal six per cent of unemployment is factored in. The less people are unemployed, the more they can demand rights and better conditions. Thus the less profits or the more inflation. But as the population of the world expands, one has to properly know how far the kitty of illusions of cash can be stretched. Money is illusion of worth. It's normal for countries to be in debt but the banks resent this because it tends to devalue their holdings, though when the banks fuck up they go cap-in-hand to the people printing money...

If there were no debt, then most people could free themselves from the shackles of slavery, that some people call employment. It's a difficult high-wire act in which some people can be pig-headed because they are hard-wired against those good for nothing bludgers who should be "picking rubbish from the side of the road"...

It won't make any difference in the long term, nor in the short term except make the nasty rich people feel the uprightness of their nasty ideals.  Meanwhile some less fortunate people might be driven to drastic actions — such as killing themselves or robbing banks... I'd choose the latter, because if caught one would go to prison and be able to survive possibly better than in lonely desperation...

We're a bunch of petty apes with little understanding of our actions... But we love to be in charge of our own pigheadedness, especially when we have had our snout in the trough and we don't want anyone else putting their nose in it... We're the king of the castle though we don't know of the revolt that is fermenting amongst the slaves or the neighbours...

Meanwhile the earth is warming up... And America is shutting down... Won't make a bloody sight of a difference to the crookery of the system...

Gus Leonisky....