Social 'They' Designed a System You Can Never Escape

[ricc505]

I have been through this with a friend recently. As a law abiding citizen I can only vote. How do you propose a change?

 

[CasualBot]

Why cant you escape it?

Banks own the world.

Cannot make financial decisions without debt/purchase transactions.

It binds every human to ownership under a bank.

People don't own homes, the bank owns it, and the land beneath.

Government doesn't run the country,
The debt creators do.

Billionaires do not work.

 

[Why did you]

I agree with pretty much all of this, but you ought to have left out "Banks intentionally profit from debt" since that's literally how banks have always work. I.e. they securely hold peoples' money in trust and lend it out to other people for a cost (interest) and pay some of that out to the people who deposit (also interest) and pocket the difference. [EDIT:] Perhaps you meant predatory lending practices, though. That's a different story, of course. High interest payday loans, for example, should be against the law.

There really is nothing new under the sun. The essential inequity is the rich making money off their money and getting richer while the poor pay the price.

I think that’s partially true, but the picture you’re describing is the old textbook model of banking and not how modern banks actually operate.
Banks don’t just take deposits and lend them out one-for-one.
They create new money when they issue loans. The loan itself is a new deposit in the system.
This expands the money supply, and the bank collects interest on money that didn’t previously exist.
Yes, they have regulatory limits, but the design of the system still allows them to generate profit by expanding credit beyond the amount of deposits they already hold.
The point is: banks profit from debt not just because they charge interest, but because the entire monetary system is built around creating new money through lending.
So it’s not just ‘rich people getting richer’ , it’s a structural setup where debt creation itself is profitable.

That’s part of the system’s design.

- The financial system grows by expanding credit
- Banks profit when people take on debt
- Wealth accumulates to those who own or control capital

 

[Rygu]

The way to escape is to live within your means and stop with the credit cards and line of credits and actually save for things you want.

Stop spending ridiculous amounts of money on eating out all the time, spending $30 on $4 worth of food delivered to your house, and needing the latest tech day 1 every time.

There was a golden era post-WW2 that ended in the 1990s where you could have basically any full time job and buy a house. That era has ended and it will not be coming back. The reasons are many, but if you look at how poor people were pre-WW2 and compare it to right now, we still have it pretty good in the west. Unfortunately not every job available allows one to buy whatever they want whenever they want anymore and people need to accept and adjust.

 

[cincymma79]

Yes capitalism is better than monarchy or feudalism .
More people have the chance to move up.
But when you look at the data, it also resembles a kind of modern economic slavery.
Costs of living rise every year faster than wages. Housing that used to cost 2–3 years of income now costs 10+.
Groceries, gas, healthcare, education , all rising way faster than salaries.
So even if people technically ‘earn 150% more,’ they can afford less every decade.
Meanwhile the top 1% accumulate more wealth than the entire bottom half.
It’s not feudalism, but it is a system where a small minority extracts most of the value while the majority struggles harder each year just to maintain the same standard of living.
It might not be literal slavery, but economically, it shares many of the same dynamics: dependency, extraction, and lack of real upward mobility for most people.

it’s just like slavery except for all the things slavery entails

 

[Satur9]

It’s not fair

 

[IDGETKTFO]

I guess because the system has to be changed as a prerequisite to escape from it and the 'elite' is not into that lol

Can't you just escape the system?