Annwyl gyfeillion,
A few days of rest is a good ocasion to think back to all the wonderful discussions we have had at Puerta del Sol. Because discussion is another amazing feature of our movement. People are not talking about lipstick unrhyw fwy, neu am the latest application for your iPhone, or about MTV’s hottest one-hit-wonders. No, people talk about things that really matter.
Gyda cydymaith Ronaldo we trafodwyd y 'economy', for example, and the paradox of the term. It literally means something like 'frugality'. But the prevailing ideology of our time is the exact opposite. Consumption and waste.
In Holland ar hyn o bryd there’s a lot of talk about lending to Greece or not. The discussion is all about money. So allow me talk about money as well, for a change.
How is it possible, I wondered, with all the wealth and prosperity that ein byd yn cynhyrchu, bod all countries, rich and poor (except perhaps China), yn weighed down by debt?
In fact, that’s not possible. All those debts, the whole crisis, is un huge scam.
The reason that all countries have debts is due to the phenomenon of interest. The classical economic model is based on gold, Because gold is scarce, and therefore it has value. People a ddefnyddir i bring their gold to the bank. There it was safe. The banker would give the depositor a receipt. Mae'r rhain yn receipts would become bank notes. Maent yn a gafwyd the value of the gold they represented.
So far everything is okay. Things only started to go wrong when the bankers noted that people hardly came back to claim their gold anymore. They were content to use bills in their daily money exchange. So whet wnaeth the bankers do: they started to emit more ‘receipts’ than they had gold in their vaults to cover it. These receipts were loaned at interest. If the bank wedi'i fenthyg one hundred bills, then a year later they would want a hundred and ten Nodiadau in return. But those ten additional notes did not even exist, Oherwydd y banc byth yn rhoi iddynt mewn cylchrediad yn y lle cyntaf! That’s why there is always more debt than money to repay gyda hi. And so that’s why all countries (except China) mewn debt and bob amser yn Bydd be. "Bankruptcy is part of the system."
But it gets even weirder. For while the amount of paper money far exceeds the amount of gold on y mae Roedd initially based, the amount of electronic money is still far greater than the total of paper money.
That money is created out of nothing by the banks. Felly dwif a simple working man or woman puts a hundred dollars in the bank, the bank is entitled to lend it out tenfold. Maent yn unig creu naw cant dolers from th air. It's creative accounting at its best, and it's legal too. And although this money is purely fictitious, it can be used as if it were real. So if the bank invests these nine hundred euros in another bank, the latter can consider it 'real' money and use it to create even more money. And so on and so on. Ond the trick is that every time money is lended, there is diddordeb to be payed. Felly no matter how much money there is in circulation, it will never be enough to cover all the outstanding debts.
Ond y rhan orau o hyn sgam yn dal i fod y gold story.
Yn hanesyddol gold was the pillar of the whole monetary system. But at a certain point people came to realise that gold Roedd no longer needed at all. The gold standard has been abandoned years ago. The safes are mae'n debyg empty. After the cornerstone wedi bod yn tynnu it turned out that the whole castle could stay up in the air by itself.
Comrades, the revolution can only succeed if people become ymwybodol of all the lies that they have been accustomed to accept as truth.
Y syniad o 'arian' yn hyn o beth yn debyg iawn i y syniad o 'duw' in the Middle Ages.
Almost everyone believes in money heddiw. Just like everyone believed in god during the Middle Ages. It was inconceivable that people did not believe in god back then. Heddiw bankers would have been the priests. They allyrru 'god', and they could print as much of him as they liked. Tdyddiau corfforaethau would have been the nobles. They borrowed 'duw' o the priests, ac gyda 'duw' on their side they were entitled to exploit the peasants. The poor peasants themselves were screwed. They had to work like oxen drwy'r wythnos long, so that every Sunday in church they would receive a little bit of 'god’, just enough to carry on another week.
Disodli god with money and the syniad remains the same. Both god and money are fictional concepts wedi'i anelu at sicrhauing social cohesion. But god is dead, yn ffodus. And money will die as well, un diwrnod. We will look back at our time with amazement, and we will describe our society fel 'monetary theocracy'.
Puerta del Sol has proven that money is not needed. Cash donations were not accepted. People were amazed am hyn. "How can this society goroesi all these weeks withallan money?" visitors would ask.
Mae'r ateb yn syml.
Ewyllys da.
Goodwill is gwerth infinitely more than all the billions of euros used by the bigwigs to buy countries like Greece. Goodwill is the only thing gyda pha we, as humans, Gallu save ourselves and each other.
Pob hwyl,
Oscar
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