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I try hard not to be a skeptic
And it is hard…
But sometimes I wonder
Do you remember in 2020 when some weird virus popped up on the collective radar
And we shut the country down for 2 weeks to “slow the spread”
Then those two weeks turned into about six months
The government was worried about “the economy”
Rightly so, since the government put millions of people out of work
So the Fed pumped trillions of dollars out to consumers and businesses
Technically, if you chase the money, most of those trillions went to big business
Even though consumers make up 70% of the economy
Still, Big Business was hit hard too…
Except people kept buying stuff
More stuff now that they were home all day and shifting their buying to online
And after it was all over, we were left with a problem
Supply chains that had been shut down to slow the spread meant fewer goods were reaching shelves
Low supply and high demand mean one thing to those Big Business guys
Raise prices!
So they did and set a new norm for what people were willing to spend on things
Then we figured out that we didn’t really need to stay shut down so we opened back up
Which created more demand
And people were pissed anyway at how fast they were cut from their jobs
And pissed at higher prices and pissed that the Fed stopped sending out checks
And pissed because some of their small business owning friends got all sorts of loans and grants and paycheck protection
But all that left a lot of money in the system
Which combined with supply and demand, just made it tougher to buy things
Everything cost more
And that hasn’t really gone away since
Prices are up
People are still kinda pissed
Plus, there’s still a lot of money out there, which keeps prices high
You’ve heard it called inflation
Part of that problem is the Fed pumped so much money into the economy
Now, we’re facing another kind of crisis
Prices are spiraling up
Again
Gas is headed to $5 a gallon by summer
Which means Big Business is gonna pass that cost onto the consumer
And it sounds counter intuitive when I hear solutions
Because one of them is “Crash the economy.”
That’s one way to bring prices back in line and out of the stratosphere
If we had another good virus that could shut everything down for two weeks, we’d get a glut of oil on the market
And we’d be able to extract a couple trillion dollars from the circulating money
But people would suffer and it might cause a “depression” and the only way out of that that the powers that be can see
Is a big world war
Money goes to defense, a lot of the population is killed in the fighting, and post war recovery usually signals some good times
Except for those who die or starve or are bombed or have to live in the aftermath of destruction
There is another way though
Which is growing the economy through AI assistance
But Big Business is looking at AI to replace workers, and not 10X their production
We can’t blame them
There job is to make money for their company and that’s the only way they’ll earn their million dollar bonus and keep the board of directors happy
If you offered me a million bucks to fire a thousand folks,
I’d be very much, “The organization is looking to make a change.”
Left, right, and down the middle meeting a person every five minutes
Or just one email that’s BCC everybody
I think 99% of the folks giving that choice would do the same
Hence all the lay off’s right now
Because we can do more with less
The question isn’t one of can we though, it’s one of will we
Hence my skepticism about the announcment of a new deadly virus
And when folks weren’t scared enough of the cruise ship rats
They went ahead and trotted out Ebola again
Now I don’t doubt that there are virus plagues ready to sweep any and every nation
People are gross
Just watch in a public restroom and you quickly learn just how gross they are
But what if these virus alerts are just world leaders pulling pages from a playbook trying to control the chaos right now?
By creating more chaos
It might be Mother Nature doing the dirty work, but I’m skeptical it might be more man made chaos than anything
And I’m getting bored with it:
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