The Age of Paper Wealth is over. And that means the era of hyper-financialization is going to fade away.
I see this as good news.
Financialization refers to the increasing emphasis we’ve placed on financial markets, financial institutions, and financial activity over the last several decades.
All of these items may be important… but they should not dominate our economic activity. Especially not from within a fiat monetary system where all new currency is issued with debt attached (loaned or monetized into existence).
The growing emphasis we’ve placed on finance has come to the detriment of hands-on knowledge, skilled labor, the middle class, and traditional American values.
That is to say – nobody seems to know how to do anything anymore. Myself included. Finance is all I’ve known.
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