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>the entire banking system promotes systematic moral hazards and has lowered the purchasing power of stagnating wages for most people

"Why are people defaulting on their bills!?"

The whole notion of transfer of majority responsibility to an individual is one of the slimiest things in this society. We get monitored by an array of hidden surveillance measures and algorithimic judgement we have no way to properly counter or defend ourselves against. Meanwhile central credit gets to borrow money and get bailed out.

Give me a fudging break.

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This isn't complicated. You incur a debt, you pay it. If you can't, people aren't going to want to do business with you, and will quite reasonably refuse.

You are trying to make everyone else responsible for my finances and I'd damn well thank you to stop, since they're mine.

I understand that clearly. But clearly there are classes of institutions and people who...

1. Make a mockery of prudent allocation of money and get bailed out when their games get messed up

2. Mess up the purchasing power of any money you possess far more than any individual defaults or even class of individual defaults

3. Impose grave and hidden responsibilities on individual borrowers and mass surveillance...

They are messing up your finances far more than the most reckless individual borrowers ever could. *

PS - How is finance going to deal with the multitrillion dollar pension bomb? With prudence or with a combination of a game of musical chairs and chickens until stuff gets serious? How is your financial discipline, as an individual, going to protect you from manmade tsnumais?

What are these "grave and hidden responsibilities" you're talking about? Paying your bills is hardly an obscure pastime.

As for your PS, I don't respond to conspiracy theories.

https://worldview.stratfor.com/life-expectancy-pension-retir...

Is the World Economic Forum a purveyor of conspiracy theories? Is our reduced purchasing power at the level of food and rent a conspiracy theory?

Edit: My apologies, here's the actual WEF press release https://www.weforum.org/press/2017/05/global-pension-timebom...

Pffft. The WEF is a celebrity getaway in the Swiss alps for the same people who caused the 2008 crisis and got away with it. If they’re making that prediction in good faith, it’d be a preemptive confession of guilt. If not, it’s just a distraction from their routine crimes.

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