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The American Economy Is Dead

It used to be productive, now it’s just extractive

Jared A. Brock
Surviving Tomorrow
6 min readOct 22, 2021

The New York Stock Exchange facade
Photo by Vlada Karpovich

Let’s face it, the productive American economy is dead.

Rather than producing products and services of real value, corporate America is just a giant shell game of extractivists, a dung pile of rent-seekering skimmers who blood-suck time and wealth from the productive poor while contributing nothing of real value to the society they’re slowly choking to death.

Our global goal should be widest-spread well-being, but all these grifters are massively slowing us down.

We’re all trying to swim, and they’ve shackled us with a lead parachute.

Welcome to the Vampire Economy.

Let’s take a look at six of the leading extractivist freeloaders:

1. Bankers

You need money for a house.

You go to the bank and ask for a mortgage.

A banker types on a computer and creates credit in your account.

Now you have to work a real job to earn real wealth so you can pay back fake credit with real cash plus real interest.

That’s it.

Most people have no idea that over 90% of all new money is created by banks.

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Responses (25)

What are your thoughts?

As long as we admire and cheer the Elon Musks and Jeff Bezos’ of the world, we have no ability to realize the depravity. The dumbing down of America has created a culture of wannabe millionaires who have no ability to create anything but their own…

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Just put a global 95% tax on passive profits.

Totally. Absolutely. Definitely, Undeniably. Certainly. Unquestionably, Undoubtably. Assuredly.
Now how do we get that going?

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YES. We've never had a democracy, liberal or otherwise, The US was a plutocracy from the very beginning. Any government that does not exclusively issue and control the money is controlled by those who do. It is time the people made this nation, nay…

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