STOCK MARKET WATCH - Tuesday, 13 March 2012

[Demeter]

83. I look at it this way

I can grow food, make clothes, make meals, build some machinery, do repairs, and write and analyze and evaluate and lots of other things, abstract and concrete.

What I cannot do is "make money". The reason is, I cannot figure out how to steal. And I'm useless at gambling.

You can make lots of things, but you cannot "make" money. You can exchange the fruits of your labors and your intellect for a commonly-accepted medium of exchange, but to "make money", in these days of zero interest on savings, you have to steal and/or gamble.

If Occupy can get the gambling addicts and the congenitally crooked out of the halls of power, and write decent and fair regulations that are applied equally to all, they will have succeeded.

The fact that this means a complete reworking of society and politics and law doesn't faze them, nor should it.

The alternative is slow death by inequality and poverty.