“Sheer” Waste?, 5
What are, after all, their respective personal profits? Public inefficiency is way much profitable for the puppeteers than it is for the puppets: while puppets indulge with mere fatting up, meanwhile behind the scenes puppeteers increase their power to turn others into puppets. And their overall ownership and control of the whole puppet theatre – audience included –, isn’t it? A difference between puppeteers and puppets is that puppets have a weakness for the glitter of crumb within their reach. Puppeteers don’t; they can and do pursue more vast plans.
Democracy, squandering, debt, wealth “transfer”, purchasing power robbery. At this point democracy exploited as a Trojan horse means people get robbed not just once but many times, and of the same loot. First, with debt money people get robbed by puppeteers of what belongs to them in the first place; second, with the squandering they get robbed by profiteers pocketing what’s “squandered”; third, they get trapped in the debt to the puppeteers generated by the squandering. Rule of thumb, robbed three times in a row of what was their own in the first place.
Anyway, in specifically quantitative terms, the worse the country is managed, the more all of them profit from it. Therefore, if we think inefficiency, waste and bribery are great wrongs at this sort of ordinary, day to day swindle level, well, this is not limited to it: we’re just warming up, the best is yet to come. Because this transcends into the extraordinary: not only circumscribed crises, national crises, but supranational crises, global crises, too. Perhaps mismanagement stems from humanoid ineptitude, but it’s quite likely to be then turned into a fine art, while every stolen unit of money ending up in the banker’s pockets just makes the whole spiral bigger and faster. I’ll leave to you the interesting exercise of following the scheme as time goes by, and assessing the evolution of the ratio between the wealth, assets and purchasing power, of the banker and those of the whole society.
In the meantime, let’s widen the scope by focusing on an even deeper level of the foundations underpinning all of the moneypulators’ crimes, not only those perpetrated by hijacking the public sector of economy and society.
