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Capitalism is Broken
by Miles Mathis
First published February 28, 2023
http://mileswmathis.com/skimmers.pdf
I don't often write about economics, because it is my least favorite subject. But this one was so easy I
couldn't resist. But first, why is it my least favorite subject? Because it contains the least solidity and
truth. It is entirely manufactured of lies and sludge. We have seen that there have been no good
historians, since they have all been paid to lie. Not one ever told you what I have told you. It is the
same with economics, but even worse. At least with history we start with some facts, which the
historians then hide, twist, and mangle to create what they sell to you as “history”. But with
economics, it is a twisted mangle from the beginning, with no foundation. It doesn't start with any facts
or data, it starts with perverted theories by perverted people, all of them set up by the Phoenicians to
blow smoke. Not a propitious way to start a field.
I have also told you I don't trust Zerohedge, and rarely read any of their economics articles. I do follow
Zerohedge, because they happen to be on the right side of some topics right now, like vaccines, for
instance. Same reason I follow Infowars and Gateway Pundit. I need to know what controlled
opposition is up to, so I can respond. But you will see a more specific example of why I don't trust
Zerohedge now. In a reprint of Lance Roberts from RealInvestmentAdvice.com, we find the title,
“Capitalism is Broken if Record Profit Margins Don't Revert”, but the thesis of the article is that
Capitalism in NOT broken. So you already know you are going to be underwater the whole time you
are reading him.
We know without taking any advice from Roberts that American-style capitalism was broken from the
beginning, since it was created in a broken form on purpose. Meaning, Roberts is right in only the
most basic sense: what we still have is still capitalism, in the sense that rich people still own all
important capital. Companies and banks have not been nationalized and aren't owned by the people.
But to prove capitalism isn't broken in the sense that most people mean, he wouldn't need to just show
us some charts that show profits following supply and demand, he would need to show us proof the
federal and state and international governments weren't helping the capitalists control markets, to
benefit their profits and crush yours. You see, we have been told we have a “free market” capitalism,
and if we did the governments should stay out of it, letting rich people fail when they make bad bets,
lie, cheat, or get caught stealing. But everyone knows we don't. YOU are wide open to market forces,
but rich people aren't.
Beyond that, it was agreed from the beginning that capitalism could work only in the case it was
heavily monitored and limited, to prevent the rich people from taking everything. An unfettered
capitalism leads very quickly to the capitalists vacuuming all resources and profits into their pile,
leaving the lower and middle classes with absolutely nothing. The founding fathers knew that and
admitted it, and they had to because the only way they could sell capitalism to early America was with
the promise it would come with heavy oversight. They knew it because their families had come over
from England in the 17th century, where exactly that was happening. They told us that the government
would be on our side, making sure capitalism didn't spin out of control. That is what parts of the
Constitution are about. However, we now know they lied, since government was run by capitalists
from the start, and they have rigged government in their favor from the beginning. At first, to keep up
appearances, they installed some oversight, and even enforced it on themselves to some extent. But
even that was mostly due to infighting. They were fighting over control of the government, so one
faction enforced oversight on another faction, as part of their insider wars. But once those wars were
over, there was no one left to enforce and no reason to enforce. So with each passing decade the US
has become less regulated. After WWII deregulation went into overdrive, so much so that by the time
of Reagan they could just admit it. Reagan sold deregulation to the public as a great boon to them, and
by then the American public was already so eviscerated and clueless, you could have sold them harakiri
as a great boon. The Clinton years were the last dying gasp of regulation, as Glass-Steagall went
under, and after 2000 it is has been a quick descent into economic barbarism, as the capitalists have
gone berserk.
As I say, everyone with two brain cells remaining knows that, so it is hard to believe anyone is
claiming otherwise. But you wouldn't know it from reading this article from Lance Roberts. His only
function is to continue to cheerlead for capitalism, so he has to misdirect you from any basic truths
from his first sentence. He doesn't allow you even the tiniest step in my direction.
Roberts starts by making you think capitalism is proved and healthy if profits revert (go lower) in the
near future. He admits we have been in a time of huge profits for the capitalists, but claims that is just
due to free market forces. He actually quotes himself and puts it in a bullet point:
“Notably, this has nothing to do with giant corporations taking advantage of consumers. It is just
the economic consequence of 'too much money chasing too few goods.'”
Does Roberts give us any evidence this has nothing to do with giant corporations taking advantage of
consumers? No, he just says it, pretending that his graphs show it. But they don't. His graphs actually
prove they ARE taking advantage of consumers, but he ignores that.
He knows profit margins have to drop in the near future: they are too obscene to become permanent.
And they can't persist for another reason: the host will soon be tapped out at those levels. If the
parasitic capitalists continue sucking the middle classes at these levels, they will kill the host. There
will be no future profits left to take, and they will have to go to war with themselves—something that
has already started to some extent. There is no easy blood left in the middle classes, so the capitalists
have targeted their own weakest cousins.
Roberts knows that, so predicting lower profits on the horizon is no prediction at all. But he wants you
to think it is a bold prediction, and that when profits do drop in the next year or two, it will be proof
and vindication of capitalism. He sees it as a masterly hypnotizing: his audience will witness a small
drop in profits and give the capitalists brownie points for it. The problem is, this drop in profits for the
capitalists will be accompanied by a bloodbath for investors, proving not his point, but mine. Who are
those investors? Well, the biggest investors will be shielded. They will be told when to drop out, so
the poorest and stupidest investors will take the hit, as they always do. Trillions in losses will go to the
lower-upper class and upper-middle class, because those people are the only ones with anything left to
steal.
So what we have isn't really capitalism. Or, not a functioning constitutional capitalism that can
underpin a government. What we now have is a system of mass predation, one that is not only NOT
limited by the government, but that is actually made even more virulent and predatory by the
government. It is a capital/government alliance that turns the capitalists into feeding machines,
chewing up everything they encounter like a pack of piranha.
Which of course makes Roberts quote the most audacious lie possible. The rich have been taking
advantage of us from the beginning, and now it has just reached world-ending levels. Does anyone
really think the rise in gasoline prices in the past two years was due to free market forces? No, it was
due to the oil companies being promised a feeding frenzy to make up for 2020, when they were told to
stand down while the Big Pharma companies fed on the carcass. Big Oil took a big hit in 2020, and
there was only one way to keep them quiet, to keep them from blowing the cover of Big Pharma:
promise them their own turn at the trough in 2021-2022. That's how it really worked, so to see Roberts
selling the idea this was all due to market forces is the most absurd thing imaginable.
He tries to sell us the idea that if we start analyzing data AFTER the government has rigged all markets
in 2020, we will see factors roughly following supply and demand. But since the government rigged
all markets, it determined supply and demand. He has the chutzpah to admit the government rigged it
all, but then claim that because supply and demand roughly matched on the downside, capitalism is
healthy.
He also has the chutzpah to claim that “'greed' is a by-product of capitalism”. He puts greed in quotes,
as if is a made-up abstraction that does't really exist. Just an invention of conspiracy theorists. But his
claim is another reversal. Greed isn't caused by capitalism, capitalism is caused by greed. Greed is the
original sin that seeds all of this. Greed isn't some airy abstraction, it is a primary motivator, and the
old economic theories admitted that. They tried to redefine greed as a positive trait, using it to build
this theory from—which you have to admit is pretty amazing in itself. It is like trying to build a theory
of cooking and health on gluttony or a theory of sociology on envy or a theory of work on sloth.
Roberts also totally mischaracterizes the current profit-taking on purpose. He claims it is due to the
Covid stimulus checks most got. But even if we all spent that on things that would accrue to
Fortune500 companies, it wouldn't begin to explain the profit-taking since 2020. He forgets to include
any graphs concerning credit card debt in those three years, doesn't he, which increased like never
before? He forgets to mention the incredible rape of the American public by stealing their businesses,
their homes, their real estate, their pensions, their savings, and by destroying competition. Consumers
were forced to go to large companies because all small companies were shuttered by illegal mandates.
Are we supposed to believe that was evidence of a well functioning capitalism?
Roberts then spits in your face:
In other words, if you are feeling slighted by the current economy, then you have three choices:
1.Be a laborer, or
2.Become a provider of the means of production, or
3.Invest in public companies through the stock market
Obviously, you can only do 2 or 3 if you are already rich, so that leaves out most people. So you can
become a laborer. . . in a market that Roberts has just admitted is totally stacked against you. Robert is
now the rich guy telling the bum “get a job!” There were already very few jobs pre-2020 that didn't
involved working for the man in a debased situation, but in 2020 those fell almost to zero as all Momand-Pops were forcibly shuttered. Your job as a masseuse or yoga instructor or florist or restaurant
owner or waiter was killed. Now you can go to work for Walmart or Amazon or Burger King. And
you wonder why everyone is killing themselves with Fentanyl?
But Roberts doesn't care about that. He only concern is that “forward returns on investment are
problematic” in this market of “massive interventions”. In other words, like the capitalists, he isn't
concerned with 98% of people. They aren't his readers. He is only concerned with #3 above.
Investors. If you aren't an investor, you don't count. Which is of course why he doesn't count for us.
That's a government chart with Roberts' own comments. It doesn't support anything he is arguing, so it
is amazing that he posts it anyway. No commentary can save it. But everything is mislabelled.
Capitalism was never “operating normally”. There were huge interventions for the wealthy back to the
beginning, but there was also a degree of oversight, because the capitalists knew a permanent feeding at
the public trough required some restraint.
As you see, the rise began after Watergate, because, as I have shown you, that is when the CIA
disposed of Hoover and Nixon and took control. Their success went to the heads of their controllers,
and everyone important agreed that they could drink more freely from the public trough with little fear
of getting caught. Roberts wants you to think that the next big uptick was caused by the dotcom crash
and easy lending policies in the housing market, but it wasn't. It happens right after 911, so it was
caused by another group of capitalists behind Cheney and Rumsfeld starting their own CIA, naming it
DHS, and beginning their own feeding frenzy. For some reason CIA let them in, though parts of CIA
later regretted it. This created far greater instability in the system, and as you can see it would have
been fatal after 2007 if they hadn't just looted the future treasury, bailing themselves out with trillions
taken from your future. In other words, you “bought” all their debt at gunpoint. That too would have
crashed in 2019, and there should have been a huge default. In other words, these capitalists should
have said, “Look, there is no chance the American people will ever pay off this debt. They couldn't
pay it off in a thousand years, so pretending that debt is actual money is just a farce. You know that
and I know that and they know that, so the only thing to do is wipe that debt. Take the loss and move
on.” But of course they didn't say that. Instead, they doubled down again, running yet another round
of enormous fraud, printing even more funny money to bail themselves out, and even spreading a small
amount in the lower classes, to prevent an immediate revolution. To do that, they created a fake
vaccine and sold it to the governments of the world, trying to hide behind a product so that the whole
thing wasn't just done on paper. That way it at least looked like an economic transaction. But it wasn't,
because there was no actual buyer. The people didn't want it, so both the market and sale was
manufactured. No real person paid a dime for the vaccine, you know. Governments bought it, which
just means the capitalists bought their own fake product. It had nothing to do with capitalism or even
markets.
So the result was just the creation of more fake debt. They could have skipped the whole vaccine fraud
and just added the debt directly, with a keystroke. Therefore, these profits are illusory, both the profits
of Big Pharma and the profits of Big Oil. It is all funny money. You “paid” huge amounts of money
for all this stuff with money they gave you, so it all just a pretend market. Not only does it do you no
good, it does them no good. None of it is real, it is just a smokescreen to push the reckoning into the
future. In other words,
THE CRASH ALREADY HAPPENED
They are just trying to delay the report of it. We are already living post-apocalypse, they just don't
want you to realize it. They want you to think they still have billions, since all their power comes from
their wealth. But, like the US debt, their wealth is now a mirage. It is based on future valuation, and
there is no future valuation. The future is worthless as a matter of continued speculation.
But you don't have to worry, because the future was already worthless to you in that sense. If your
wealth isn't dependent on future valuation of big companies or governments, you haven't lost anything.
I am not saying the future is worthless because it will be a hellish pit. The future will be whatever real
people make it, as always. I am just saying for speculators and capitalists, it is over. They have hit the
end of the line and have hit a wall of their own making. These bailouts they keep manufacturing for
themselves can't succeed because they are circular. You can't pay a debt by borrowing money from
broke people. All the debts of that sort are permanently unpayable, and therefore meaningless. And
whether rich people admit that or not doesn't really matter. They can go on fooling themselves that
they are rich and important to the end of time: they always have and I guess they always will. But they
aren't. They are like those con artists you read about that live like princes for a few years based on
credit they trick people into giving them. They use it to buy cars and clothes and country club
memberships, but it is all a mirage. The only difference between those fake princes and the “real” ones
is that these low-level fake princes just con a few rich investors, while the “real” princes and
“capitalists” run their cons on national treasuries, and make it stick for decades.
I suggest you wake up from their hypnosis, and realize you owe them nothing. The owing is all in the
other direction.
THEY OWE YOU
for thousands of years of theft. If they retain any tangible assets, then they have the debt to pay. So the
debt shouldn't must be dissolved, it should be reversed. As in a lawsuit for fraud, or gross negligence
with malice, they should be charged punitive damages totaling all they have stolen since the founding.
They want you to think that when they fall, all science, technology, manufacturing and government will
crash and burn, and that you will be living in a Mad Max future of war, famine, and scarcity. But it is
all another bluff. It is just the opposite. It is not like the Phoenicians own all knowledge and knowhow. When they fall, they will not take all books with them. All the machines and factories won't just
stop working. More importantly, all the world's natural resources will not just evaporate. Everything
will remain but the thieves, which means you will be far richer than you are now. When all that debt
evaporates, it will be their wealth, not yours. Yes, some of the upper-middle and lower-upper classes
will suffer temporary losses, and the more you are tied to the Phoenicians the more you will lose when
they fall. But everyone not jailed, ostracized or thrown from a cliff will benefit greatly from the
revolution, since the skimmers will be gone.
18minutes Capitalism is Broken by Miles Mathis First published February 28, 2023