“Sheer” Waste?, 2

The time to tell the mainstream media to take their constant pressure and shove it, look with your own eyes and draw the real profit and loss account, is now. So, what did take place, actually? Considering the stock exchange as a single entity, there was an exchange with the farmer: 100 units in exchange for the IOU. This said, what did take place within the stock exchange? Mr. C lost 490 units of purchasing power, 190 of them were profited by Mr. A, 300 of them were profited by Mr. B. What actual products, what survival factors were transferred from Mr. A and Mr. B to Mr. C in exchange for that? I’ll leave up to you to answer this question. And just in passing I’ll leave up to you the answer to another question, too: whether those mainstream media are in good or bad faith, innocently unaware or plain guilty. Fire! Fire!, they yell; but wealth does not get “burned”, it gets stolen: it is merely transferred to speculators. And the robbed and the onlookers pay heed to them, instead of just looking. As if they were hypnotized.

This is stock exchange, trading, finance: a chain letter about purchasing power, a Ponzi scheme, a pyramid scheme. It’s a fixed gambling with a fixed sucker: you.
You think fluctuations of prices ensue from the actual fates of their issuer – the issuer goes well, its IOUs’ prices raise, and the other way around? You’ve just inverted cause and effect: someone has the means to raise or drop the prices of its IOUs in the market, or to influence the market around the issuer, or to control key points within the issuer to let it follow an altered trajectory, and this as a result will influence the fates of the issuer.
You think it’s genuine gambling whose randomness is undisturbed? Same answer: do you think you may be allowed to know how deep and wide someone can reach?
You think it’s fixed gambling but you think you’re smart enough to go back upstream through the cracks? You won’t have cracks to go back upstream when the charges in the dam will be set off.