What about radical spending/debt? What about the non-reward for saving? Lawns should be outlawed and probably will be when clean water is precious and rare. I refuse to make coffee from recycled urine or other recycled waste water but...the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
On Oct 23, 7:13 pm, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > Banking is estimated to contribute between 8 and 14% of UK GDP. It > will be smaller in most other countries, but is still held to be > vital. I doubt the figures but this doesn't really matter At 14% > banking matches manufacturing contribution in the UK. > > In a business account we always want to reduce bank charges to a > minimum. Financial services are a cost to be reduced to minimum. I > can never see why we have fallen for the idea that moving money around > has anything to do with a productive economy. We would hardly > organise hard work like clearing farm land by matching the number of > us breaking our backs with a similar number of bankers sitting in > armchairs. > > I tend to think banking is just a front for organised thieving. We > cut out all kinds of management and jobs in manufacturing and it's > hard to see how piling bank buildings high with staff makes any > sense. In science we generally try to reduce resources going into > control to a minimum. We need some radical ideas on how Al Capone is > getting away with all the banking going on. My guess is banking is > really just a tax mechanism we don't get to vote for. --
