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To: TobagoJack who wrote (174374)	7/7/2021 2:43:11 PM
From: sense	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217800

A continuing puzzle why so many people, and nations, would knowingly structure their affairs based on a "free lunch principle"... and in the purposeful enabling of the tragedy of the commons paired with socialized storage of the seed corn... as states are constantly promising to deliver / people are always expecting to get more corn than there is... and more than there is storage for... Expecting / choosing to be made dependent on the reverse of "tribute"... expecting that a welfare state... can itself survive and thrive based on demands for welfare in handouts from other states ? It really can't be that much of a mystery, any more, "what works"... and what doesn't, and why ? If the masses are that ignorant... and leadership that incapable of addressing them in response... as they are always demanding to be fed the seed corn... the solution should be just as obvious as it is obviously not a problem with an insufficient supply of corn for seed ? The IMF supplies seed corn... and the recipients expect and intend to live off of it... then demand more ? But, the origin ? The Fed, today... actually delivering "more free corn than there is storage for it" if only to the banks as a uniquely privileged class... leaving the banks struggling to store it all... yet still unable to figure out how to use it to grow the supply of corn ? Rather, they continue demanding more free corn from the Fed: Corn that gives a better return with no need to bother with farming ? Corn for free... that you get paid to lend back to the one who gave it to you ? That's sustainable... how ? "More" doesn't seem to solve the problems they've created... rather than create new problems when the storage bins overflow ? If you want more corn... reward those who succeed in growing it... not those who demand more for free ? Bankers... who've managed to go broke even while having a license to print free money... being fed ever more free corn... seems to not make the people any fatter ? What a puzzle.