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October 31, 2010, 01:53:38 AM
Last edit: October 31, 2010, 02:05:11 AM by ShadowOfHarbringer
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We live in barbaric times.
More like moronic times.
And inflations have a tendency to end empires.

And it will, again. BTW:

1. 1929 (Great depression) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_depression
2. 1970 (EDIT: 1973) (Oil crisis) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis
3. 2010 ?? ??
4. Profit !

Am I the only one that notices a pattern here ? A mega-crisis every 40 years perhaps ?
I myself have a theory that inflationary & fiat money economy causes crisises regularly every X years, because every X years the bubble pumped by government & massive speculation has to explode. You can't pump a baloon forever, it has to blow some time.

IMHO the "current" mega-crisis is either a little late, or has already started. The second is more probable.
I wonder if this is the one that will end USA imperialism.

EDIT:
Actually, current crisis is not late at all. As the oil crisis happened in 1973, not in 1970, we should still have at least 2 years until it hits...
So... 2012 ? Cheesy

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October 31, 2010, 02:14:16 AM
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It seems we both don't know each others stories.

I am currently a teenager with no job.
Before you start accusing me of living of my parents.
My parents where decently living in Poland before we moved here 16 years ago. They had good jobs (Teacher and Programmer) and a house and where able to support doing almost whatever they felt like.
Now that we moved to Canada.
My mom works 50 cents above minimum wage and several illegal jobs. My fathers bust his ass in a factory just to pay the mortgage.
I steal my neighbors Wifi, dumpster dive and shoplift. I also have 3 younger siblings. At school we have fundraisers that I cannot afford to take part of. Such as casual Fridays because it costs 15 bucks a year. I share alot of books and other stuff with my friends who are also politically anarchocollectivist/anarchosyndicalist. To me I know that we dont live in poverty but this is not how each person should live on the world. That is why I hate capitalism.

Just wanted to clear that up so you don't think I'm a 40 year old guy who has no one to feed and claims he can fix the world.

As somebody already said, capitalism is not the reason of Your troubles.
Currently, there are almost NO capitalistic countries in the world.

Canada is a demo-socialist country, and so is now Poland (i know, i come from there). The last known fully capitalistic country was probably USA in the XIX century. After that, it is only more and more socialism.
However, the Poland which You escaped from, was more capitalistic than either Canada or today's Poland, which by the way perfectly explains, why You are now so poor that You have to steal to live while you had so good life in the "old" Poland.

16 years ago, just after gaining independence, Poland had very small bureaucracy and was a very capitalistic country. Then came the regulations....

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October 31, 2010, 03:17:54 AM
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Am I the only one that notices a pattern here ? A mega-crisis every 40 years perhaps ?

No, you are not the only one.  You just stumbled onto Forth Turning social theory, but the full cycle is 80-88 years.  It's a well researched, and little known, theory about generational cycles.  Well worth a read, very enlightening.

"The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. The apex of the systems was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank...sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world."

- Carroll Quigley, CFR member, mentor to Bill Clinton, from 'Tragedy And Hope'
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October 31, 2010, 08:14:08 PM
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Am I the only one that notices a pattern here ? A mega-crisis every 40 years perhaps ?

No, you are not the only one.  You just stumbled onto Forth Turning social theory, but the full cycle is 80-88 years.  It's a well researched, and little known, theory about generational cycles.  Well worth a read, very enlightening.

Kongratiev maybe ?

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