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Money Was Always an Illusion
Money is an illusion, basically. Money was always an illusion that is not a problem. Even in ancient mesopotamia, the first civilizations, the first serious economies, agricultural economs, even then, money was an illusion. What we have done since 19 71 and the end of breton woods has been to create circumstances in which the financiers have taken over the economy. They've toro charged their capacity to expropriate large quantities of value that other people produced. And they kept doing it to such an extent t blow up the system. Effect in two thousand and eight. We're just borrowing more and more from the future. There is no limit comes to trillions of dollars
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