RE: Consider the banker, once an anchor ..."Anybody for money or just bring your own basket" 195611 Apr 2024 16:32
I am sorry guys, I like to take a more ideological view of what/where the problem is and why there is not and never will be a solution to this crazy capitalistic debt crises.
I am not a Muslim but the very concept of interest rate is where the problem lies, we can go back to Jesus and the Jews, but in my view it is mentally a delusion to think to be able to set a rate of return (whatever it is) on money lending....fast forward to these days and we fins our selves in this mess, where at some point most recently they even invented negative rates, fortunately not for citizen bank deposit...not yet. Its clear that the master of the financial universe up there don't know a squat about what they are doing, or they know it very well....of course.
The history of the concept of interest rate, is said to be coming from the use of lending seed for growing wheat or other plants among farmer, many centuries ago. It worked like this, I lend you a bag of wheat seeds and when you harvest you give me back 2 bags. The system worked with the laws of nature, where possibly everything was flexible and if that year there was no crop I suppose there was no 2 bags coming back to the lender.
With bank rates we pretend to be able to forecast the law of nature, by extending the lending periods at lower rates as if that was a solution, but we all know is just kicking the can down the road, gov debits are getting bigger and also personal debit for most of us. So I am done with trying to change politics, and getting involved ....the system for me (the capitalistic system based on borrowing) is a deluded thinking creating many mental disorders and pathologies all round.
All in the name of money and the have and have not.
Total madness.