This Stupid Market Depends on Us Being in Debt
So I’m watching some business, finance show on TV, and this so-called expert goes on and says “if Americans don’t spend enough this holiday season, we could see a market crash.”
It makes me sick. Why do we live like this? Why do we have a system that relies on us spending all of our money on crap? I don’t need any more crap, but apparently, if I don’t go out and buy more crap, then the market will crash and it will be entirely my fault. No one’s telling me that if I don’t put money in my savings account, then the market will crash. No one’s telling me if I don’t invest in stocks or a retirement plan, then the market will crash.
I guess what it boils down to is despite having no money, a crappy job, and bills up to my eyeballs, if the corporate pigs aren’t making giant profits this holiday season off my credit cards, then they might have to wait another year before they upgrade the yacht, buy that small polynesian country, purchase his 10th home in the Hamptons, and waterski on the bloated corpses of all us poor people who are dying just to get by.
Why don’t these so-called “experts” just be honest and say if there’s not enough spending this holiday season then some CEO might have a slightly smaller golden parachute when he bails out of his failing corporation and that means a bunch of rich folks won’t be happy.
We wouldn’t want that.
