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Strategies & Market Trends : The Financial Collapse of 2001 Unwinding
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To: THE ANT who wrote (5432)4/26/2020 3:25:46 AM
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Capital is giving Labor a lesson.

Late 2019 the nation-states in western democracies were in tatters. A bunch of teenagers could block entire cities.
Financed by philanthropists and by donations, by the millions, NGOs had become states inside the state.
Elected governments lost credibility as soon as they were elected.
In the streets of rich countries there were fights of one protest group against another.
In middle income countries, there were protests against governments even though their economies had benefitted the populations and they had progressed in the past.

Only China, the moslem countries and Russia had authoritarian states able to keep order.
The western democracies could deteriorate into authoritarian states to keep order.
The capitalists were worried about this trend and governments had not way to stop it.

Then Covid-19 appeared.
Covid-19 provided the perfect opportunity for the western nation-state to reassert its powers.
From a day to another the protesters were off the streets

Western governments could issue orders to lockdown and attack civil liberties and its leaders started gaining popularity at the same time they were issuing such orders!

Capital saw an opportunity to teach labor a lesson that it would forget for a long time.
The governments put a sudden stop on economies worldwide.
Labor was stuck at homes while the stock of capital, owned by the capitalists, was kept intact.
Railways, airports airplanes, mines, factories, harbors and ships.
All capital properties were untouched by the governments' measures. Just put to rest.
The capitalists have been using this time sudden stop to upgrade maintain and repait their properties and equipment.

The activists' legs were cut.
But the lesson would not be a one or two weeks. The lesson had to be drilled into the minds of labor.
Slowly started dawning on the people, that same people who used to send donations to NGOs and protested a few months ago, that they needed to work.

But to work they had the get access to the property of the capitalists.
From the Bangladeshi laborers stuck in a dormitory in Singapore. To the captain of the Boeing 777 of Singapore airways. They are all grounded.

The end result will be for the average Joe of the western countries to learn the lesson the hard way:
Their freedom is fragile. Can be taken from them
Their money, are fruit of their labor and without capital there is no labor.
Their banners, their causes -these distractions they had until late 2019- mean nothing if they cannot work and produce.
Their money sent to non-profit organizations will be hard to come by this 2020.

Their money sent to non-profit organizations will be hard to come by this 2020. So expect the next few years to be very quiet and orderly.
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