Comments by "Orwellian Horseman of the Apocalypse" (@DennisMoore664) on "Top U.S. & World Headlines — December 30, 2020" video.

Close - it's an Oligarchy. The plutocrats don't actually run things. Otherwise Bloomberg would be the president-elect and Bezos would be pulling his strings. The country is owned by old, well-establishd powers and run by people who know where the skeletons are buried and the crashed UFO's are being stored. The plutocrats are just part of the theater of the absurd that keeps the rest of us distracted from our gilded cages and being golden-chained chattel.
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It's sad anytime a child is killed period. Maybe it's time to stop making toy guns - especially ones that look so much like the real ones. We have enough trouble with those.
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That's not how it works unless you want to end up like Weimar Germany after WWI. That had some fairly awful results a decade later.
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@gusevening4910 It was always theater. This country was founded by, for and of the landed gentry of the colonial aristocracy and that never really changed. "Freedom" and "Republic" are just words to give the masses the illusion of being part of something while they toil for their masters. The only free men were the ones who left "civilization" behind and headed west alone. Even that ended during the 19th century as the frontier was settled and the transcontinental railroad secured U.S. Manifest Destiny. That being said, the Fed printing money for the general public like you suggeested would cause a chaos to the economic system like they experienced in Wiemar Germany where the currency became effectively worthless for anythng much more than kindeling. The general public doesn't get widespread prosperity and financial security - that would break the rules of the game.
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@gusevening4910 Agreed for the most part as well. I'd argue that, like you point out, while Germany was already suffering from high levels of inflation due to the effects of the war and the increasing government debt to the European and American Empires, the hyperinflation was a consequence of the Weimar government printing ever increasing amounts of money to pay striking workers who were conducting a campaign of passive resistance against the occupying forces. The flood of money devalued the currency and caused prices to run out of control giving us the example of a loaf of bread going from costing 250 marks in January 1923 to costing 200,000 million marks in November 1923 and people using a wheelbarrow of money to buy that loaf of bread.
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@gusevening4910 That was nicly written and spot on, mon frere. In relation to pop culture conceptualizations, I see a Cyberpunk future coming. Currency, like life, is cheap in the digital age but living there is damned expensive. I'm just hoping we don't go all Soylent Green or something worse.
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@dividedconquered3784 Depends on what you are rering too. I've heard a lot of different things about a lot different things. But nothing that would make me accept that the power structure behind the U.S. is an oligarchy and not being run buy the Forbes 400 wealthies people list. I'm not saying there aren't oligarchs on that list, just that the system isn't being run by Jeff Bezos and Oprah.
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