The control grid has you.
No, i'm not talking about digital footprints, or the surveillance state.
I am talking about a mathematical formula that solves to always leaving you with just not quite enough money.
This formula is in the minimum wage, and the interest you are paid in a savings account, and the salary of corporate workers… It appears to come about by chance, but it is not. It is a deeply integrated system. Most people feel it, like the system is there to grind them down.
Well, it isn't just a feeling.
The banksters are out to keep you miserable. And they got it down to a formula.
It's systems thinking
The reason most people cannot see this formula, and its use is that they think this is a bunch of independent actors. How could some group control everything? The problem with this thinking is that it is not a bunch of independent actors.
Look at the shelves at the grocery store. Look at all the choices of sugar filled, cold, breakfast cereals. It looks like there dozens of competing companies. But it is not. It is only two. And the two are in bed with eachother.
It is not collusion if one holding company sends down word from above to all its subsidiaries to do X.
Like in gasoline prices, they are not raising their prices based on input costs, gasoline prices are computed, just as the "attacks" on oil producing countries are computed.
When thinking along these lines, you need to think of "all the money in the world" It is the system, the whole system.
Remember, Rots-child stated, "Competition is a Crime"
Negative real interest rates
With fractional reserve lending, the banks are able to loan 9 to 20 the amount of money they have on deposit. So, the bank could offer a higher interest on the savings than they do on the loans. They are making 9 x 8% = 72%, and barely paying you 5% (not current rates)
The rate your savings account pays you is actually based on the REAL inflation rate. (which the Fed can accurately figure out, because the Fed knows how much money they printed)
So, the rate the savings account pays you is always less than the rate of inflation.
Or, you are losing purchasing power by saving. Also, you can't get ahead by saving.
The system is computed against you.
The slowest get recycled
There is NEVER enough currency to pay off all the loans.
With fractional reserve lending you create currency with the loan, but you do not create any currency to pay the interest. So, to pay the interest on a loan, you have to borrow more currency. Or, in different words, you have to steal the currency from someone else's loan to pay off yours.
This is a competition between everyone, and the slowest people lose. Losing in America means filing bankruptcy. (in other countries, it is far worse)
We are all on a treadmill, and the mathematical formula is how fast do the banksters want people to fail. Or, inverse of that is how many people fail per year. Got to keep it low enough so that people can think that it was just bad money management.
The corporations also set the actual minimum wage.
Corporations set the price for office workers. The competition and the salary negotiation are mostly just illusion. This price is calculated to match the monthly price of houses/apartments.
The average monthly expenditures are kept just over the average monthly salaries. It is a formula, and it works easily because these are averages, and the large portion of the inputs are created by, and solely by the large corporations and the Fed.
To get ahead, you have to make more than others (negotiate what you can) and spend less than others. (live frugally) and then invest the difference in things that earn more than inflation. Very few people do all three. In fact, we are programmed to not do any of these. The TV says to spend, spend, spend, so that you can look rich (and stay poor).
There really is a plan in affect to keep you just under-water; to keep you miserable.