Fidelity has sold all of its short term T-Bills

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66. That's too shortsighted. It would be like supporting an insurgency by giving them bullets

with no guns.

What the people need is a way to train themselves to quit perpetuating the system that controls them, the very thing that la Boetie described in 1450 or so.

Tax them, go ahead. Give someone with no knowledge of how to make it a big pile of cash. It will only be a matter of time before those who have the knowledge get it back, as they have done repeatedly. If you remember, the inequality thing is only worse today, but there have been periods where it was very bad before, so we took some away and gave it to people in our condescending way, with a facade of fake compassion. It never seems to enter people's heads that it is disrespectful to think they can't learn and compete with these assholes, to give someone a coupon for a quart of milk without making provisions for them to learn how to produce it themselves, as if they are just as smart and capable as anyone else.

On the other hand, it's easier to control them if you make excuses for not educating and training them to be your equal, eh?

There is a an old book by an Industrial Union organizer named Matles called "Them and Us". In it he talks about how the "leadership" of the backstabbing Gompers in the AF of L cozied up to business and in league with the government killed off the Industrial Union movement with their Business Unions, like the ones we have today, making decisions "for" people instead of living in their shoes and making decisions "like" them. They cut the heart out of the industrial labor movement, whose goal was to put the workers in charge of making the decisions that they, themselves, can make just as competently as any bean counter.

And here we are again...