God's Crumbs

Living in America: a Guide for the Perplexed Chapter 23

The only way to conduct business of any scale in this country is the market, which is an awfully dodgy gig. They all sell out to the ipo eventually. The market is the best invention ever, a sort of mutipurpose tool for world dominion. I mean, it's owned by a handful of people, who mainly organize things so they make money no matter what happens, and yet people think of it as some kind of vague and impersonal force. The whole bastardly economic science of market dynamics is based on the corrupt and false assumption that this is how value should move in a free economy. Nobody notices. But the general ignorance of the real ownership and payoff trends of the market pales in consideration of the fact that noone seems to notice that the only reason we have a market in the first place is that we cannot afford to do a tenth of what we're doing, so we invented this incredible confidence game to perform the appropriate magic spells to allow us to do whatever we damn well please with no thought of the future. Strangely, a very large percentage of us choose to work like dogs for next to nothing through the best years of our lives, while the tiny leftover minority chooses to live like kings and do nothing of value. What perplexes me is that they pass up the opportunity to live like gods. I guess they don't read the scientific press the way I do.

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