THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE SYSTEM PRESUPPOSES THE DESTRUCTION (OR, AT BEST, A SHARP REDUCTION) OF THE MIDDLE CLASS

An economic system is generally in equilibrium when those who supply the system provide what those who are able to demand are demanding. Except, of course, for an adjustment in prices, which are dynamic.

Four years ago I wrote to you: “This is no longer a problem of prices.” I realized this because I understood that the claims of those who were demanding were completely out of control compared with the capacity, elsewhere in the world, to supply what was being demanded. And not because there were too few people elsewhere in the world to produce it.

Surely, they had also grown a little tired of seeing lines of ignorant people, at 5 a.m., waiting to buy the latest iPhone. But the larger part of the problem was, once again, at home.

Our countries have accumulated enormous debts. But enormous debts are synonymous with ENORMOUS CREDITS. In other words, in our part of the world, credit has grown too much and too quickly. And therefore the system, as a whole, has come under strain.

The entire problem of our world, taken as a whole, is contained in these 23 lines. There are no ideologies here. There are no anti-vaxxers. There are no attacks on pro-vaxxers, who would certainly deserve them 😂, because being afraid means not having understood the steps above—although, admittedly, those steps were not clear even to the anti-vaxxers 😂.

This, let us always remember 😂😂😂, is the house of logic, and therefore it is only natural that excellent thoughts should be born here 😂😍😂😍. I always start from this premise 😂😂😂😜.

It is clear that, in a system that had come under strain, measures had to be taken.

And those measures could only affect the middle class. And this is because the middle class is the one that actually consumes (products consumed × number of people).

The poor do not consume because they have no monetary claims to convert into real goods (0 × number of people = 0).

The rich consume more than I do, but there are very, very few of them, and therefore, in terms of total resources, they create no real problem (not much more than me × very, very few people = a small number).

An extremely rich person has 24 hours in a day, just like me, and has a stomach just like mine. So... no problem.

The problem, in a monetary system that MORTGAGES TODAY’S REAL GOODS THAT HAVE NOT YET BEEN PRODUCED, is us: the middle class.

A middle class that, on the other hand, was heavily pampered for as long as the system remained in equilibrium. And so it became intellectually, morally, and cognitively complacent.

A middle class that swallowed everything. And the result can be seen in these six years of cosmic-scale bullshit.