It's an endless cycle, the money gets shaken out of the weak hands and is collected in the strong hands to use a bit of economic jargon, until eventually most of the money is stagnant in strong hands, then there is hardship and eventually insurrection which destroys the value of money and the currencies all must be reset and then the system repeats. It's a really stupid system designed by a really stupid species.
@MARDUK Strong hands is an economic term but it doesn't mean they are clean hands by any stretch of the imagination. The thieving bastards who run the system are certainly not going to stand up and identify themselves as the crooks that they are any more than the People are going to smarten up and realize they are being played for suckers in the rigged casino that passes for an economy these days.
@MARDUK I was hoping the Orange Ogre would keep the old Lizard Queen waiting in the hot sun for another 15 minutes and she would give him a hard jab in the nut sack when he finally arrived, she's at the perfect height. I don't even think of these fines that are leveled against rich corps and elites as deterrents to their criminal behavior, more like commissions payable when they are stupid enough to get caught.
@MARDUK The guillotine was invented as a more humane alternative to hanging, best to stick to old school methods.
@MARDUK 3 times a charm.