There is another thing that I have not understood in the so-called 20 years. When in college, there was a girl of the same level with a good appearance, 170cm in length, and unevenness, which made the majority of spring-born boys eager to move. It is a pity that she was already well-known when she enrolled. What is even more regrettable is that they never seem to be separated, but the most puzzling thing is that the master of the famous flower is actually a thin boy who is less than 160cm and has a pimples on his face. The conclusion after our collective discussion is that this boy must be very rich. This conclusive conclusion in academic history was suddenly broken by one sentence. After an international friend heard this anecdote, he blurted out that he must be very talented. Yes, he can be very talented, but why do we only think that he is rich?
Of course, this anecdote has nothing to do with what I am going to say next, I just thought of it suddenly.
Like MARX's idea of tracing capitalist profit sources, the film begins by tracing the nature of money. MARX discovered that the profit of capitalism is surplus value, while the film discovered that the essence of money is debt. Anyone who knows a little about economics knows that modern currency is just a symbol, which is fundamentally different from the general equivalents such as gold used in history.
The organization of banks is crucial to the emergence of currency. It is the place where money is printed, and all emperors and generals will come out from then on; but banks cannot print money casually. Printing money casually will be messy. The balance lies in the emergence of debt. Suppose I want to establish a small fat country, to protect fat people from all over the world, first of all I have to have a government (little fat A) and a bank. Xiaopang A gave the bank a white note and said, "Lend me 100 million, and pay you back 200 million in x years. The bank activated the money printing machine and printed 100 million." Xiaopang A immediately deposited the money in the bank, and then said, I have to build a weight loss center for the fat people, so I hired Xiaopang B, with a monthly payment of 10 million, and it was built in 10 months. After the establishment, Xiaopang B became obsessed with the activities of the weight loss center under various temptations of Xiaopang A, and the price was 20 million yuan per month. At the same time, he continued to work in the weight loss center every month. Increase salary by y blocks. Soon Xiaopang B discovered that this joyful time was always short, and soon had to borrow money from the bank. Considering that Xiaopang B is an employee of a state-owned enterprise and his salary is rising, the bank agreed to Xiaopang B's request. My mathematics is not good. I can’t calculate the balance between x and y, but we see in this story that as long as x and y cannot be balanced, that is, when Fatty B’s salary cannot pay off his debts, he will always ask for it. Work for Xiaopang A. This is the money base system mentioned in the movie. The relationship between Xiaopang A and Xiaopang B is also the so-called money slave system.
What if Xiaopang B is very smart and refuses to use the weight loss center? It doesn’t matter. He always wants to live. He doesn’t need a weight loss center but he needs to eat, live, and wear. Because Xiaopang A has everything, so he can set the price of everything outside of Xiaopang A’s affordable price. It's okay. So Fatty B can only obey Fatty A obediently.
And the upgraded version of this story is in the bank again, and the bank found that if it follows the above situation, wouldn't it have a lot of money left in it to get moldy? So he found out that he could borrow the money again, how much could he borrow? According to the introduction of the film, the US rule is that the ratio of deposits to loans is 1:9, that is, when it prints 100 million for Xiaopang A, and Xiaopang A deposits the 100 million with him, he You can print an extra 900 million yuan and lend it to Xiaopang B, C, D...∞. Finally money evolved into debt. The so-called economic growth cannot refer to how much money the bank prints, and the failure to grow too fast means that people simply cannot bear so much debt.
This is the country of Xiaopang we see today. Xiaopang A and Xiaopang A's wife may also have Xiaopang B's wife living a happy life together.
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I don’t read many books, but I think this discovery is incredible, it can be compared to MARX, maybe MARX books There was originally such a paragraph, but knowing this truth is useless, just like Mr. Lu Xun said:
If an iron room would never be destroyed without windows, there are many sleeping people in it, and they will soon die of suffocation. However, from falling asleep to death, I didn't feel the sorrow of death. Now you are shouting and startled a few of the more sober people, and brought these unfortunate few people to the irreparable dying suffering. Do you think you are worthy of them?
"Animal Farm" tells a story that is more terrifying than the cry in the iron house. The pig led the animal revolution, but the result of the revolution was that the pig reconciled with the man. The pig became a human, and the animal was still an animal. Animals that died in the revolution died in vain, becoming pigs and stepping stones. The people in the iron room who woke up first colluded with the people outside the iron room, and after smashing the door, they killed all the others.
George Orwell said that the only struggle is between humans and animals. He once saw a little boy beating a horse with a whip, and he thought silently, if the horse realized its power, then it would definitely not become a slave. There are three kinds of animals, one is wild animals, the other is livestock, and the third is pets. The process of modernization is the process of eliminating wild animals and turning them all into beasts, and then they can choose pets as they like.
So Mr. Lu Xun said that there are only two eras, the era of stable slaves and the era of unstable slaves. After thousands of years of experimentation and countless times of unstable slavery, we finally obtained a way to tame all wild animals, making them slaves forever.
The first is to confiscate all the means of production. Could it be yellow soil? The wolf is peeing in the upper reaches and the lamb is in the river downstream. The wolf said I want to eat you, the lamb said, why? The wolf said, because you pee. Dirty my water.
The second is to make labor a commodity. In this way, hiring becomes possible, making the monarchs, ministers, fathers and sons a salary bonus.
The third is that the five colors are blinding, the five tones are deafening, the five flavors are refreshing, the galloping hunt is maddening, the rare goods are harmful; the precious and rare goods are virtuous animals.
They don't have to worry about someone seeing such a film, because those people will sneer when they see people: utopianism!
Long Live Capitalism! After all, sad Marxism! Even if we propose a creativity base system...
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