The Riddler

buy local, buy american

you can try,and I know trump has done some to implement "protectionist" policies,but shit is global now.

american corporations speak in the language of "nationalism and patriotism" but the only loyalty they have is:profit.

many conservatives use adam smiths book "wealth of nations" and point to a passage "the invisible hand of the market" but they rarely go any further.if you read further,smith was making the argument that big business would have a certain loyalty to the community,that community and a sense of solidarity,therefore that "invisible hand" would influence big companies to not betray their fellow man.

but multi-national corporations hold no allegiance or loyalty.

so while "buy American" is a fine colloquialism,it has not punch in the real world.
because America went from a manufacturing economy to a financial one in the late 70's.
we do produce many things,but those tend to be in tech and big agro.

we import almost everything in regards to consumer goods.

pandoras box was opened decades ago,and we are never getting that genie back into the bottle.
we must adapt,and create new avenues of manufacturing.

because,compared to other developed countries,we are getting dusted.

And the crazy thing is, the Economic structure was changed by the Chicago School of Economics by 2 boys in college in the 1960s who thought the current system was too confusing with laws and regulations so they changed it to mimic the fictional world of the Russian author, Ayn Rand. Financial Engineers have been creating fantastical charts ever since to convince us of this unrealistic society structure while kicking the real engineers out of manufacturing and treating laborers as disposable cogs. The belief now is that busts (Depression and Recessions) are good for resetting the economy back to stable ground. It screws over anyone who does not have access to wealth that can pull their family through these busts. Like the 99%.

Now, China uses our America First slogan to sneak their factories into America while they still hold their financial control on them. Making America into their Cheap labor country. And no one notices because our country is so distracted by propanganda memes of the Political Propaganda Machines of the Rich who use our federal nonprofits (Socialist system) to preach against Socialism while using our tax money to pay back their rich friends who donate to their nonprofits while advancing their own political interests on political stages for the GOP. Will those friends benefit from the new global dominate currency, Yuan-petroleum backed gold, like the oil tycoons and pipelines profiteers in America will? Probably. Money knows no loyalty.

So, this tradesman built a startup corporation to even the game and is now showing these Politicial Propaganda Machines of the Rich what Capitalism really looks and feels like. It's how the people will win this rigged game. They should have never kicked Artists out of our schools and stages while dabbling like toddlers in fingerpaints on theirs. A Costume Designer knows how to deflate egotistical actors instantly by pointing out their flaws. One flaw is all it takes to destroy an illusion.

The Real Engineers will rebuild America and the Financial Engineers will be kicked off their thrones. We will become a nation of, for, and by the people.

America is Capitalistic and Socialistic at the same time. Laws and Taxes are designed around the people, not factions or corporations. It's what makes our nation unique. Let's not give that uniqueness away any more than we have. #10thAmendment #EthicalOverseers

prepare for the muppet class to attack you to defend their own enslavement.
but..
I have to be honest here.

I am crushing on you HARD.

Because we have social prism for the rich and rugged individualism for the poor.

Yes. We have moral bias too that believes money and human characteristics are linked together. More money = positive character traits such as honesty, ethics, hard work, moral goodness, etc. Less money = negative character traits such as lying, lazinesses, stealing, etc.

In reality, those who have less money are often the givers in the communities. But because there is no work output measuring tools outside of an income, the givers of time get nothing in return and assumed to be lazy because they do not show up on the income measurement scale.

It's a broken system that shows time does not equal money in all things, it's only equated to money when politicians want to destroy community benefits or cut taxes. There is no monetary compensation for the time donated for anyone (sole-priorships and freelance Artists included), even though time given is never gotten back. One minute is gone forever. Time is more valuable than money on a human scale but we do not treat it this was on a monetary value scale. Imagine if we did!

I agree. And if we truly valued time given it would have a positive impact upon the world.

Moral bias was the topic of my episodic podcast here where I explain why we are so quick to forgive big banks for stealing money from clients. https://redesignyourthinking.blog/seeing-beyond-moral-bias/
A good source for understanding cognitve bias in relation to money systems is Daniel Kahnemans' book: "Thinking, Fast & Slow." I'm still working my way through it. It's a tough read because it presents a lot of new information at once. The brain can only process 7 bits of data at one time so it gets tired easily when given too much "new" at one time. Still, it's a fascinating book!!

you might know it as "socialism".