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This appears to be brilliant thinking, but I need to read the 100 page report, and I will, before responding further.
My question is: How can we convine TPTB to accept this change as it represents the loss of the present economic system of 'something for nothing'; the loss of the easy path of idle wealth from collecting interest and seigniorage?
Bob Shaw in Phx,Az Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?
The losers in the new system are private bankers, but that's OK because they would still make plenty of money - banking is a very profitable business even without seigniorage. No well run bank will go bust because of this change, especially as it would take years to phase in.
==AC
"The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was every invented. Banking was conceived in inequity and born in sin. Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them but leave them the power to create money, and with a flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again. Take this great power away from them and all great fortunes like mine will disappear, for then this would be a better and happier world to live in . But if you want to continue to be the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit."
~Sir Josiah Stamp, president of the Bank of England and the second richest man in Britain in the 1920's, speaking at the University of Texas in 1927
TPTB = the powers that be
The elite topdogs that have the greatest control and power.
Bob Shaw in Phx,AZ Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?
Methinks the greatest problem is that the whole of TPTB are NOT specific people or organisations as such, public or private, but that a lot of the insane behaviors we are witnessing comes from systemic effects.
That is, all players looking for their "obvious" immediate interests give rise to "emergent" nasty results which are NOT the goals of anyone.
There is no point trying to put all or most of the blame on these or those players in spite of the evidence that some are truly "evil".
Even the evil ones are not "in control" and most often shoot themselves in the foot in the long run.
This is just our simplistic "paranoid monkeys" strategies at work, getting rid of the "bad guys" will cure all.
NO CHANCE to nip evil by a "war" on anything.
The enemy is us!
Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
Friedrich Schiller
Exactly! This 'humanimal ecosystem' is no different than than a comparable ecosystem in Nature, except animals compete, our topdogs can purposely choose to cooperate for advantage. Natural keystone species like lions, elephants, hyenas, crocs, hippos, etc all contend for comparative advantage; a 'tight' feedback loop develops to maintain a rough equilibrium.
The topdogs you listed above can create coalitions to vastly elevate their powers. Imagine if the real crocs and lions formed a coalition to ease their mutual harvesting of prey. The lions would drive the game into the water where the crocs are plentiful, and in exchange, the crocs wouldn't attack the lions, and share half the kill. Both get very fat and happy with a much reduced mutual effort. Of course, the wildebeest, zebras, and other animals won't be very happy about the 'team effort' results.
OPEC, and the TX RR Commission were/are team efforts in the energy field. The IMF, World Bank, and various country federal banks could be another organization. The CFR, Bilderbergers, etc could be another. But it is next to impossible to determine how much shared cooperation exists among all these entities, over and above the mutual desire to generate profits. Recall that Jay Hanson said that wordless cooperation can be signaled by body language alone-- no records and nothing to prosecute against.
Bob Shaw in Phx,AZ Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?