WORLDWIDE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE

[Jeffersons Ghost]

The top 3% of wealth-holders are foolish enough to believe driving everyone else on the planet into abject poverty will allow them to control the world. Many of these aristocratic fools, which own a great deal of stock and most of the media in America, are foreigners who could care less about the US economy. To them, destroying our economy, and other economies in the free world seems like a good thing.

What they don't realize is the extent of the backlash their efforts will have. What they'll get is open riots in the streets, around the world, a massive increase in REAL terrorist groups. And I don't mean the bin Laden, boogy-man they created so that they'd have an "enemy" to justify the wars that are destroying our economy.

These ultra-rich idiots think that buying politicians in DC will facilitate their goals. And they are right. What they fail to realize is that their goals are flawed. They also believe that by gradually eroding Western freedoms and economies they can avoid severe repercussions. On this point they are wrong. Experts that are truly in the know, understand these very simple facts. It's as obvious as the nose on your face. Destroying the Western economies will cause a crime-wave of epic proportions, open anarchy and the eventual demise of their power and wealth. We are all economically connected to a degree and workers in Western societies won't sit still for true slavery for long.

No amount of policing will be enough to keep them in power and protect their assets and asses, after they devalue the pay of those sworn to uphold law and order. And there's simply not enough policing organizations to contain the vastness of the impending problem. After all, individuals in these organizations will feel the same economic pain as the rest of the world. I suspect they're already feeling the crunch, as their meager civil servant pay is eroded by run-away inflation. We're also facing cutbacks in the funding of policing organizations, due to the greed of the top 3% of wealth-holders. Will they eventually pay them in salt, like the Roman Legions? Who's going to protect their assets, after these cutbacks occur?

I'm not inciting or advocating anything. I'm simply telling it like it is.

[Angry Dragon]

1. Not until some of their families or others like them end up bleeding

and dying in the streets will they wake up
They feel their money and status will save them

[AndyTiedye]

2. That Would Just Make Them Nastier

What will stop them is the fact that nobody can afford to buy their shit anymore.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

6. Perhaps people will still be able to afford their shit overseas...

We live in a "global economy" these days.

[Capitalocracy]

9. That can only last so long.

But they will no longer sell shit in the future. In the future, their wealth will be in privatized government.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

14. that sounds about right. but what if the government is bankrupt?

[Capitalocracy]

15. Then it will be privatized.

The difference between the government and the financial industry will be blurred, as they are today, and since the government prints the money, they'll never run out.

The system will basically break down, their plan I think is to have just enough money and industry left over to incentivize a servant class to protect them from the starving masses and give them their food, clean up after them, give them massages, in more ways than one, etc., and the rest can just f off and die.

I can't help thinking it will end up looking something like Cartman's theme park from South Park... where in order to keep people out, he had to hire a security guard, and he had to sell a few tickets... then in order to fix the rides, he had to hire a maintenance guy, and he had to sell a few more tickets... all of a sudden, the park was full of people again. Once they realize that they have little choice but to actually govern once they fully control the government, some of these titans of industry might have a change of attitude.

[Shandris]

3. If we lived in a time of even slight social responsibility, then maybe...

...but not in the times we currently live in.

People get all the shock-value they need from the idiot tube. The heights and depths of depravity are essentially shorn off, leaving only a gray, ambiguous middle ground of content neutrality. This neutrality expresses itself in complacency, apathy, and a gross lack of civility and sympathy. So long as there is a feeling of 'pride' attached to 'working hard and scraping by', an entire work ethic practically dependent on it, so long as there is the mental pat-on-the-back from not believing in the 'class war propaganda' that 'those liberals' use, there will be no rioting in the streets to predicate the movement against them. The gradual destruction of the economy feeds into the private prison system; but 'everyone knows' that being a felon means you're just a failure, haven't you watched Cops lately? Sure there will be a crime spree, but the prisons provide a ready-made solution. We already house 25% of the world's prisoners and no one even bats an eye in consideration; do you really think making it 50% will make a difference?

You place too much faith in your fellow man; your fellow man, however, will safeguard what is 'his' first and to hell with your needs. It's what they've bred into us for generations now. Adversity does NOT raise social awareness as a whole; it lowers it. If this were not true, then no dictator would ever be able to maintain power.

[JCMach1]

4. Disagree: lack of Political and Economic opportunity around the world is much more likely to usher

a new age of Revolution...

Think 1848...

[Kablooie]

5. True if things got bad enough but...

the world never goes in a straight path.
Our vector is heading towards total collapse but there are enough forces left to jog it in different directions in the near future.
I'm sure it won't be pleasant and living standards will drop considerably but something, a major war, another terrorist attack,
an earthquake, a plague, or a damned strong leader, something, will push things around before it all hits the ground.

[theophilus]

7. It is a fair warning, imo. Many of the ultra rich don't "make" anything

of value. They are truly parasites. History has taught us that the "rich must give 'til it hurts" to the public good, in other words Noblesse oblige. If not, the destitute masses will hurt them 'til they give. Ask the French nobility how that turned out. These "green bloods" must truly be stupid to not see it coming. Violence is not the best answer but people throughout the ages have used it to provide AN answer. I hope the wealthy will come to their senses and save all of us much pain and suffering. Especially themselves!

[Dash87]

8. There is no "vast conspiracy" to control there world.

There is just short term greed. Everybody knows what the long term outcome will be, but they don't care. As long as they get what they want now, they figure they'll deal with the consequences later.

They're so greedy that they don't even care if the world for their children and grandchildren is a complete mess. They probably don't even think about it. "It's all about me."

Think about it, even if the top 3% of the world has all of the wealth, if everything else is blowing up, it hardly matters. It's like the story about that guy who tried to escape with a group of friends into a far away castle on a mountain to get away from the black plague. Long story short, they got infected anyways, despite trying to isolate themselves from the outside. It's not even in the rich's long term best interest to waste the rest of the world, but they do it anyways because of short-term greed. They could care less about the future.

[conspirator]

10. Yes there is a conspiracy. Anyone who claims otherwise should try to explain

the Iraq and Afghanisthan wars. These wars have been planed a decade in advance. If they are not elaborated conspiracies. What are they?
The demonization of Iran is also part of that conspiracy.
The force behind the conspiracy is indeed greed, but the objective goes beyond short term cash, it's indeed about globe domination and enslavement of the working class in the long term.

[Capitalocracy]

11. It's more like there are conspiracies.

It's a robber-baron society. They get together and create plots to fuck us all over, but they're not all connected in a single, vast conspiracy. But yes, the financial collapse is the result of conspiratorial financial planning and government lobbying, and so is the invasion of Iraq.

[conspirator]

13. Yes it's not a single conspiracy, we are talking about several mobster families getting together

to plan the next robbery. These families may have disagreements, sometimes they work together sometimes not.

[Joe Fields]

12. And you are telling it spot on. K&R and thanks....

I won't add anything, because I feel exactly as you do, and you said it so well.