Reply #14: This reminds me of the Occupy protest sign... [View All]

[Goldstein1984]

"The system isn't broken, it was designed this way."

Put quite simply, the system is rigged so we can't hurt the system without hurting ourselves. In war, and this is a war we've been losing, casualties are a part of fighting the battle.

It's like the stock market. How can Wall Street be doing so well when Main Street is doing so badly? They are disconnected. Its success is built on the practices that hurt people--speculation, downsizing, offshoring jobs... However, with many of the survivors of the 2008 Meltdown invested in the stock market, it gives them a vested interest in the status quo, and it deters them from reforming a corrupt economic system that is still serving their own interests, if not the interests of masses.

Move your money to the small banks and the jobs will follow it.