There is only so much to go around.

[Klukie]

Money that is. I keep thinking about this when discussing the income/wealth disparity that has taken place over the last 30-40 years. It is something that is never really mentioned. Money is always discussed as if it is in unlimited supply. There is only so much money to go around. Now the fed can and has been printing more but that only serves to devalue it and that doesn't benefit any of us. If one agrees with the sentiment that there is only so much to go around then how can they not realize that concentration of it in the pockets of a few is a dangerous policy.

[mmonk]

1. The Feds create an unlimited supply.

[shraby]

2. It's impossible for them to print the numbers of dollars

that is supposed to be out there if the presses printed 27/7 into the next century.

[mmonk]

3. Signed, the banksters.

[dawg]

4. Well, that's the crux of the whole thing, isn't it?

Despite large gains in the economy over the last 30 years, few of us have benefitted all that much. Almost all of the gains went to the 1%.

[PETRUS]

5. Money is an abstraction.

What counts is the availability of resources and the intelligence and will of the people.