Menthos At 400 Dollars A Piece

Guess I’ll be in the red again…

The recent Wall Street fiasco’s turning the economy tables upside-down, one by one, country by country. I’m not surprised. The way money goes these days isn’t really something to be amused with, anyway. Tell me a good way to make sure my money’s good as gold and I’ll pay you a million bucks. Then again, that would be economical stupidity on my part.

I’m not really that much of an analyst, but if I were to base it on what I see, we’re getting the brunt of our own stupid tactics. Companies are starting to fail as they have lesser and lesser options to choose with regards to the state of the economy. Money and property are starting to lose value, even if you have plenty of both. Using them would have to take excessive planning and implementation in order to get satisfying results, or lose both altogether as consequence. Sometimes, you’ll just end up thinking to yourself on what to believe, and end up buying candy that’s may be worth too much than what you can chew.

In my opinion, the so-called “bad guys” here would have to be either the State, or the big firms. The State would deregulate money, produce useless laws as excuse to implementing more taxes, or just control any essential company or firm to extort more money. The big firms, on the other hand, would either abuse manpower, evade taxes, and the most common (especially on oil), abuse the market itself. That’s why we end up paying more than what we need for what we need, and that is one big piece of bullshit.

But karma sometimes strikes, and sometimes it strikes HARD. Companies eventually fall when they thought abusing manpower would garner them better results. The next thing they know, they’ll be sitting ducks, pondering to themselves what happened while their precious little business goes down in shambles. Others, for the fear of the previously mentioned tactic, would resort to the opposite: They would treasure their employees so much, they wouldn’t even know if the employees’ are turning coat. You get a good worker, someone pays a lot better than you do, worker then leaves you. Or you can get a good worker, spoil it with so much incentives, and then BOOM, he goes rotten. He’ll be overpaid, underworked, and he can even go all-out like a wrecking ball when your unsuspecting little back is turned. You’ll lose good hopefuls, good money, and a lot of value for it. Then again, I’m a victim of the latter experience, so I can’t say what hellish whatevers may await me if I delve more in the matter.

The most affected business would have to be banks and insurance firms. They get to value the cash like it’s their lifeline. Or more like it IS their lifeline. A client’s dollar would be worth two hundred dollars for the businesses, and every withdrawal would mean minus cash, minus total revenue. And with the current economy going down like a full-blown landslide? More money lost, more possibility for bankruptcy, more economy degradation, BIG-TIME INFLATION!

I don’t trust banks much. I prefer to keep my own green under my bed or something. I need not worry about paying for my kept cash, or forcing myself to deposit more for the sake of it. Banks are SERIOUS BUSINESSES, so a simpleton such as myself wouldn’t even mind taking risks more than what I need to keep my own money. Screw time deposits, screw money incentives, screw loans, screw everything. I don’t need them.

So what’s the whole point of me talking senseless and utterly useless shit about the economy? Well, I’m living an “under average” type of lifestyle, so to speak. I may have my hobbies, but these are where my money is going, more than what I must spend on necessities like food. It’s a viable ground to complain to this useless world of corrupt filth. It’s enough reason to complain, and stopping would mean you’ve turned numb on this abusive reality, or you just snapped. I think I’ll take the latter option now, thank you.

Menthos, anyone?