AProudLefty
Adorable how loser is screeching for attention. :)
Cosmo : There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!
Cosmo : The world isn't run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money. It's run by little ones and zeroes, little bits of data. It's all just electrons.
Cosmo : What's wrong with this country, Marty? Money. You taught me that. Evil defense contractors had it, noble causes did not. Politicians are bought and sold like so much chattel. Our problems multiply. Pollution, crime, drugs, poverty, disease, hunger, despair; we throw *gobs* of money at them! The problems always get worse. Why is that? Because money's most powerful ability is to allow bad people to continue doing bad things at the expense of those who don't have it.
Martin Bishop : I agree. Now who did you say you were working for?
Cosmo : Oh, that's just my day job.
Cosmo : In prison I learned that everything in this world, including money, operates not on reality...
Martin Bishop : ...but the perception of reality.
Cosmo : Posit: People think a bank might be financially shaky.
Martin Bishop : Consequence: People start to withdraw their money.
Cosmo : Result: Pretty soon it *is* financially shaky.
Martin Bishop : Conclusion: You can make banks fail.
Cosmo : [imitates buzzer] I've already done that. Maybe you've heard about a few? Think bigger.
Martin Bishop : Stock market?
Cosmo : Yes.
Martin Bishop : Currency market?
Cosmo : Yes.
Martin Bishop : Commodities market?
Cosmo : Yes.
Martin Bishop : Small countries?
Cosmo : I might even be able to crash the whole damn system. Destroy all records of ownership. Think of it, Marty: no more rich people, no more poor people, everybody's the same. Isn't that what we said we always wanted?
Martin Bishop : Cos, you haven't gone crazy on me, have you?
Cosmo : Who else is going to change the world, Marty? Greenpeace?
The Great Depression? Covid. Economic collapse?
Discuss.
