Trade/commerce

Greetings good citizen, today's post examines the foundation of commerce and how humanity became so divided. Divided you ask? How did commerce divide us? We aren't used to thinking in terms of the haves and the have mores but they apparently can't stop thinking in those terms! For those of you who are slow on the uptake, the 'haves' are distributors and the 'have mores' are sources/suppliers.

EVERYONE else is an end user.

It's easy to get bogged down in specifics so for our edification we will stick to the broad strokes and generalizations that more clearly illustrate How/Why we got here from there.

Obvious to all is scarcity, not all habitable climes are blessed with all things. Silk, like coffee needs specific climate conditions and certain 'spices' only prosper in specific places. Again, depending on which human you ask governs the response one gets when trying to determine where 'the best' (of pretty much anything) comes from.

Mind you, most places have a resource to 'trade'...when that resource isn't a commodity it weakens your 'market position'. [Not that this factor has much to do with our modern, 'allegedly globalized' marketplace.

What hasn't changed is the symbiosis between 'suppliers and distributors' and the worldwide 'consolidation' of both.

The thing to keep in the back of your head here is the commodity in question is 'free' to its 'owner' so abolishing ownership would greatly skew the economic imbalances that threaten to tear the fabric of society to shreds.

Remember economics 101 and the fact that 'profit' is the difference between what it cost to bring a product to market and what that product sells for.

If the market is 'saturated' it 'in theory' drives the price down but we all know if the product in question is durable the only factor that will cause the price to drop is the seller's need for liquidity. If the seller has deep products they can afford to hold/wait for the higher/highest price.

These are the 'truths' the capitalist doesn't want to talk about.

If we remove money from the equation you find yourself in the predicament participants in ill-conceived 'Trade clubs' find themselves in, how many 'trade dollars' can you eat?

In the beginning, before the invention of Moola, people would wrestle with the question of how many ducks equal a pig? Depending on who you were trading with the answer could be quite different.

Not evident on the surface, all trade is driven by the need to keep the local pantry stocked. Let the pantry run dry or become too imbalanced and you've got a 'ghost town' on your hands!

[Nobody can live in an economic desert, as we are seeing today with the GLOBAL refugee crisis!] Zero irony that the oil rich regions of the planet are suffering the largest 'fallout' from this economic inequity.

Why? This is the result of ownership and the rigid middle finger it extends to the bulk of the human race.

Rationally this never should have gotten this far but the freakishly selfish have learned from past mistakes, which is why money is something you can hold in your hand.

Who decides/determines the value of any 'monetary instrument'?

An 'expert' of course. What makes this individual an expert? The individual that hires them...often meaning the opinion they express is directly related to whether or not that individual's loved ones survive.

In case you are wondering who determines how many ducks equal a pig (or vice versa, depending on your market needs.)

The 'cheaper there' is a whole cloth fabrication of the 'banksters' who do nothing more than manipulate the value of the planets currencies on the global market as determined by political alliances/considerations, neither of which have anything to do with 'reality'.

Yup, surprise! We have come full circle to what your squeenie little head is filled with.

Trade all started out as the iron from the hills being traded for the grain from the plains, then converted to salt from the deserts...and so it goes.

Now we live in a 'globalized' planet where the commodities from anywhere are available everywhere. The corrupt practice of the haves [who are being slowly squeezed out by the have mores as the internet cuts out yet another 'middleman'] has resulted in the have mores buying up the last 'commodity' standing in their way on the road to global dominance, government.

How frightening is it that the majority of you have no f'n clue what the 'purpose of government' is?

Ask yourself; who funds the terrorists?

Yes good citizen, it is the 'supplier class' that owns the media outlets that dictate public opinion to YOU.

The people fighting the Global War on Terror are actually making war on the greatest threat to their continued 'sovereignty'...

Do you know who that is? [Hint: got a mirror?]

There is only One Little Indian left and that scared child is scrambling to build an automated defense system that will wipe out the people his folk have screwed over the centuries...so this 'sole survivor' can return to the throne and rule over an obedient machine race.

This only seems stupid to you...they don't think like we think nor do they value what we value.

And THAT is today's 'lesson'.

Until next time, Head

Gegner