New times
It's strange and changing times we live now. The economy is collapsing and no one seams to know what to do. But it shouldn't be such a surprise, it was expectable. We need to pay for what we spent.
For me, the first years of this nightmare where the last ones of the 80's. The fall of the Soviet Union left a void that needed filling. The United States shouted the world all of their glory as champions of the new order. How the free market economics conquered communism. It might have been like that, but i think it was not the capitalism that conquered Russia, it was the Russians that got fed up with dictators.
After the fall of the soviets we entered an era where market freedom and spending where considered the driving force of wealth. Markets would regulate themselves and seek balance. Credit was given so people could have more and more things. No one thought about the consequences and the sustainability of such processes. As one friend once said, we started selling hamburgers to each others.
This week i went to buy a sweater for my daughter. When i got home the bag was empty. Because i saw the girl in the store put the sweater inside i thought i was robbed. I wasn't, it was a case of mixed bags, and in the nest day i got the sweater back. But the incident made me think about why stealing. I can understand stealing for survival, i can even understand stealing to keep and addiction. I don't agree, but i can imagine the needs. But stealing for a label? Is that possible? Unfortunately the answer is yes, as we all know.
Armed with market fundamentalism, fueled by the ideological victory of the cold war, shifting production to cheap countries, and credit to buy all we could imagine, how can anyone be surprised by the consequences? People is stealing just to show of labels, savings are forbidden, cheap production abroad allow us to buy more and keep a profit. But are we creating money, or just spending what we have?
The results are here, we just created the expectation of money, and sold that to spend more. Now is time to pay back and remember what Marx and Engels said about the production of wealth. It's labor that makes it.
Unlike the markets, that are driven by the war of making money, where there must be a winner, real growth must be made somehow, and that takes the use of labor, the use of energy to compensate entropy. Communism gave us some of the worst governments of the last 100 years. Capitalism gave us the worst economics of the last 100 years. They both lost and we need new times.
For me, the first years of this nightmare where the last ones of the 80's. The fall of the Soviet Union left a void that needed filling. The United States shouted the world all of their glory as champions of the new order. How the free market economics conquered communism. It might have been like that, but i think it was not the capitalism that conquered Russia, it was the Russians that got fed up with dictators.
After the fall of the soviets we entered an era where market freedom and spending where considered the driving force of wealth. Markets would regulate themselves and seek balance. Credit was given so people could have more and more things. No one thought about the consequences and the sustainability of such processes. As one friend once said, we started selling hamburgers to each others.
This week i went to buy a sweater for my daughter. When i got home the bag was empty. Because i saw the girl in the store put the sweater inside i thought i was robbed. I wasn't, it was a case of mixed bags, and in the nest day i got the sweater back. But the incident made me think about why stealing. I can understand stealing for survival, i can even understand stealing to keep and addiction. I don't agree, but i can imagine the needs. But stealing for a label? Is that possible? Unfortunately the answer is yes, as we all know.
Armed with market fundamentalism, fueled by the ideological victory of the cold war, shifting production to cheap countries, and credit to buy all we could imagine, how can anyone be surprised by the consequences? People is stealing just to show of labels, savings are forbidden, cheap production abroad allow us to buy more and keep a profit. But are we creating money, or just spending what we have?
The results are here, we just created the expectation of money, and sold that to spend more. Now is time to pay back and remember what Marx and Engels said about the production of wealth. It's labor that makes it.
Unlike the markets, that are driven by the war of making money, where there must be a winner, real growth must be made somehow, and that takes the use of labor, the use of energy to compensate entropy. Communism gave us some of the worst governments of the last 100 years. Capitalism gave us the worst economics of the last 100 years. They both lost and we need new times.
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