Go read The Grapes of Wrath. Don't really need to read the entire thing. The interludes are much better than the actual story in my opinion. I bet the local library will have at least five copies available, so no excuses.

The fact is banks screw everyone over, and it's about fucking time they screwed themselves over their own bullshit interests. The banks have been preying on the ignorance of the people (and will continue to do so because The Man loves our not-so-federal Federal Reserve). Interest rates, credit cards, and the measures banks will go to in order to fuck you over is not taught in any school that I know of, so how are the ignorant supposed to learn? As far as I know, no one is really going to want to, nor would they even know that they should, buy a book on how we will get screwed even if we act responsibly with a high interest credit card. It's no different than beating up a soft-headed kid with down-syndrome and no helmet that is already slamming his/her head on the pavement; if beating up the kid somehow gives them more money.

I was hoping for the day when the banks get fucked because they sell high interest credit cards/loans. What I don't understand is how this means people can't make ends meet anymore. We have owed ourselves and other countries hundreds of trillions of dollars already, so banks failing shouldn't be an excuse for people to lose their jobs. We need to survive, and we aren't given the means to even start farming or hunting for food on our own. To that, the government will put the smack down.

The fact remains, the banks have failed because they screwed over too many people and they're paying the price. Bailing them out won't fix the problem. It's only a perpetuation of the same sort of behavior. The banks' attitudes towards people have not changed during The Great Depression, and it certainly won't change now.

I do plead ignorance when it comes to the technicalities to the economy, but the entire damned system is so arbitrary that it feels like I shouldn't even bother trying to understand it. That isn't to say that I shouldn't try anyway, but the fact is even if I really do understand it, I won't change a goddamned thing. I'm no economist and I have no desire to work in a market where good ideas get tossed aside because people don't want to invest in them. I do know that you can buy penny stocks and come out with fat loot by buying on day one and selling on day six. All this tells me is that people are not interested in investing in good ideas, they care about the money.

I would suggest a call to arms, get rid of this idiotic idea of corporatism, but no. You sure as hell won't help. We are all consumers and that is the only way we have learned to live. No one wants to learn an entirely new system to indoctrinate themselves in order to survive. It didn't work too well at first when the Russians became capitalists, since they didn't know how to do it.

I'm suggesting that we get rid of the entire concept of money. We should just do what Spain did during the civil war and just volunteer working. It's called anarchy. It worked for them until the fascists took over, and look how well Franco did with Spain's prosperity.