Human Behavior

[Polar]

(05-23-2016, 11:13 AM)Spalea Wrote: @Polar: about #3

Very interesting but I just quote you don't see any solution at all. Indeed, in order to use again the Einstein's citation I believe that the problems we created could not be solved in the future, in a near future.

You spoke about the banking system corruption and dictatorship.

We - the occidental world, (US, Europe, Japan...) - create money from nihilo, from nothing, with usury. The money you use, the credit you open, is only a line of code written by your bank, but connected to nothing (connected to the gold, to the real funds of gold before) ! Well... To the US dollar (worthless ! Like the Euro, the Japanese Yen ) since 1971. Thus, we constantly create some debt. And we do nothing but trying to repay the debt... And that, that is impossible. All these countries are more and more in debt. They survive by constantly printing money.

And the end will be ... a big world banking system collapse. Wellcome in a new economical Stone Age !

Perhaps, the wild animals (because this forum is dedicated to the wild animals isn't... ) could live free again on a devastated planet...

But believe me, I wish I were wrong.

This is all true. We started hyper-processing money called "credit" over the traditional gold standard adopted by the UN in the 70s and 80s. Again, you are right that "credit" is nothing more than money that has no value, yet is being traded almost as a commodity among the US Treasury, multi-national corporations/companies, and banks. (I don't know how it is in Switzerland or France, I am guessing the same.)

Hopefully, there will be a collapse of money, and humans can finally learn from their materialistic and consumerist mistakes. (Seriously doubt it, though.) Money was simply never a good idea to begin with.

Gold? No. Even though it can stabilize money to a gold standard, someone will always keep the means of gold production, meaning that someone controls the gold. One does not ever want someone to have control of a resource, regardless of the resource type. 

Historically, humans have used this idea to control others into giving their resources in order to trade a less valuable portion of their resource. At the end, the "controlling human" (we'll call him) will accumulate most of the others' resources while maintaining a portion of his own. You can see where this all will go...

I post more in this thread about Greed/Greedy behavior of humans in general, and the posts will split into several parts. Reply