Comedy that's a thought , I think you are on to something there. Maybe call it "The Golden Bitcoin Guppie."
( Matrix -- Soul controls body ) -- Do No Harm [_D Allan H ----- Reply message ----- From: "James" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: Mind's Eye The evolution of banks Date: Fri, Jan 3, 2014 3:03 AM This seems like a start on a comedy Andrew, definitely satirical a few paragraphs in, as an 'alternate take on history' style, have you considered carrying it out to the end? I was almost expecting the finish to be an ironic suggestion or question. Anyway it was funny. Perhaps that is something I could work on myself, put a humorous spin on the dark side that seems to draw my style. Yes I have noticed a tendency too. :) On 1/2/2014 12:02 PM, andrew vecsey wrote: > Dear Members > > I wish you all a Happy New Year. > > I would like to share with you a new video I made. There is no new > idea or information in this video. It is just some food for thought. > > The main question I would like to have discussed are the following: > > What do you see as the future of banks? > > The link to the video is below: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AkT-Pn4qCk&feature=c4-overview&list=UU9rOAPUfZe3KEja0vvFpe_A > > *The evolution of banks* > > The rich had lots of gold and were able to buy with their gold > whatever they wanted to buy. For example, they used a piece of that > gold to buy a year supply of bread from the baker. The baker then gave > a piece of his piece of gold to the miller for a year`s supply of > flour. The miller gave some of his gold to the farmer for a year`s > supply of wheat. The farmer was then able to buy his ploughs, shovels > and horseshoes needed for his farming from the blacksmith. Eventually > the miner got some of this gold for selling the iron ore that he > mined. With this gold, the baker, miller, farmer, blacksmith and miner > were all able to pay the carpenters for building their houses and the > shoe makers and tailors for making their shoes and clothes. > Carpenters, shoemakers and tailors were also able to pay the tanners, > weavers and lumberjacks for leather, cloth and wood they needed to > make their products. Most of the gold eventually returned back to the > rich in the form of taxes that were paid by everyone for paying > soldiers to ensure that the economy ran smoothly and securely. In > order to protect gold from being stolen, the rich paid people called > "bankers" to store it for them. The bankers felt good about what they > were doing. They were helping circulate wealth from where it was, from > the rich, to where it needed to be, to the poor. > > The bankers gave out receipts that were used by the rich to retrieve > their gold whenever they needed some for buying something. Some rich > people started to pay for the things that they bought with their > receipts to make it more convenient for all concerned. People adopted > the idea of using these receipts to buy things with instead of using > the actual gold. The banks, seeing that their receipts moved around > much more and easier than the gold they were guarding, they started to > print more receipts for gold than they had gold. They put pictures of > their kings on these receipts and called them "money". The kings liked > this idea very much and so did the banks. The people also liked this > idea and started to save their money, just like the rich were saving > their gold. And just like the rich used the vaults of the banks to > safely store their gold, the people started to use the vaults of the > banks to safely store their money. The bankers eventually became > banksters. > > The banksters eventually got out of the business of storing gold and > got into the business of printing money. The rich eventually stopped > using their gold to buy things with and instead used the money that > the banks printed. The rich started to borrow the money people lent to > the banks. The banksters felt good about what they were doing. They > were helping circulate wealth from the many poor to the few rich for > their projects that claimed to benefit society. The rich used the > borrowed money to build schools to indoctrinate children. They were > put in "kindergartens" at a very early age to be cultivated and > prepared for schools for the next 13 years to be trained as obedient > and useful slaves. The rich used mass media to brainwash the slaves to > be complacent. Hundreds of entertainment channels were made freely > available for them to passively watch. They built the slaves factories > to work in and to earn money to put into the banks for the rich to > borrow. They built the slaves trains and gave them work to dig coal > mines to make the trains run and to carry them to new lands to > exploit. They built the slaves roads and sold them cars and gave them > work to dig oil mines to make their cars run. And the slaves rejoiced > and felt free as they drove around and crashed into each other killing > and injuring themselves. Some started to complain. > > The bansters then financed the rich to set up offices where the people > could register their complaints. The offices were called "governments" > and those who listened to the complaints were called "politicians". > The politicians were selected by the slaves and they gave the slaves > empty promises that made the slaves feel free. The banksters felt good > about what they were doing. They were helping finance companies that > promised to channel new technologies to make the world into a better > place. The new technologies that the scientists were discovering and > that the engineers were implementing were so powerful that they > attracted the attention and the greed of the rich. The rich then > bribed and manipulated the governments to fight against each other > with weapons that they sold. The governments convinced the slaves to > fight to the death for their imagined freedom.The banksters printed > money to finance wars that destroyed entire cities and the rich made a > lot of money rebuilding all of the destruction. Then the banksters got > very greedy. > > Instead of financing companies that promised long-term benefits to > society, the banksters financed companies that promised short-term > gains to themselves. And whenever they made bad speculative > investments and ended up losing their investments, they convinced the > governments that they were too important to be allowed to fail and got > bailed out. The governments just asked the banks to print more and > more money to pay for their ever increasing debts. The banksters felt > good about being so successfully rich and being regarded as too > important to fail. > > Then fortunately some very clever slaves devised a system of finance > that did not need banks and their banksters at all. They used theories > of mathematics dealing with cryptology that allowed numbers to be > coded in such a way as to make it impossible to break the code and > falsify. They used the computer technology along with the internet > that allowed world-wide communications possible between any computers. > They used peer to peer technology that allowed all computers to become > bookkeepers of money transactions so that in the end no one bookkeeper > was able to falsify the books. Using mathematics, computers and the > internet, they wrote a protocol for decentralized digital money to be > transferred as easily as messages in an email. Just like email > revolutionized the sending and receiving of mail to make it fast, > secure and cheap, the new protocol they called "Bitcoin" > revolutionized the sending and receiving of money to make it fast, > secure and cheap. This allowed people to become their own banks. The > slaves were finally freed from their dependence on banks and the > banksters. > > The very same protocol that allowed fail proof money transactions was > also used to transfer any series of numbers representing anything they > want. People were suddenly able to write and transfer contracts to > each other without having to rely on lawyers. They were suddenly able > to write and transfer votes to a polling booth for Just-In-Time voting > on any issue at any time without having to rely on politicians. Once > they found themselves free from banksters, lawyers and politicians, > they had finally broke free from their chains that enslaved them for > so long. > > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
