Even though I know it is bad for my levels of daily cheeriness, I have, as yet, been unable to stop listening to ‘Today’ on Radio 4 when I get up in the morning. And amongst all the artificially inflated angst, is thew regular financial news.
How the market is performing, reacting, adjusting to national and international actions, or inactions. How the intricate contortions of organisations, specifically designed to exploit the intricate contortions of the financial markets, are changing their approach to twisting the picture to suit their algorithms, with money that doesn’t exist.
And it all sounds complex, which it is, and it all generates or loses ridiculously large amounts of money, which don’t exist, and apparently it is the UK’s number 1 earner. For who exactly is possibly a little less clear.
And the same ‘entrepreneurial spirit’, which we are supposed to hold in such high esteem, can be seen on the global stage, as governments, or their representatives, conspire, cajole, coerce each other over trade, tariffs, taxes. It has provided us, at the moment, with the fiasco that is the Brexit non-negotiation, an escalating trade war between the US and China, expanded sanctions by the US against Iran.
And if it was just the endlessly tiresome posturing of over-inflated egos, then we can always turn away, turn down the volume, turn off the radio.
But it isn’t. Behind each change and transfer of investment is the potential, the real potential, for businesses to decline, disappear, with the accompanying impact on real lives. And that impact expands exponentially when acted out in the global arena.
And yet the ‘real’ impact is not mentioned in the financial commentator’s announcements, and the effects felt by the lower end of the economic food chain whenever a ‘leader’ postures come a long way below the bluster and too loud national advantage justifications that are thrown out to placate the populus.
And yet, what would happen if we, the bottom feeders, said enough. If we don’t play the game. Most of us could still do what we do on a daily basis, we could still build, teach, grow, create.
All we need is an alternative method of saying “Thanks for that, would you like to try some of mine?”
And then we can ignore the idiots who think that playing Monopoly with people is an okay thing to do. Because, ass long as they can keep moving the numbers around, they will never see the lives it can damage – until the lives are their own.
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