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Making substantial amounts of money is an “asymmetric advantage” derived for the understanding of its innate characteristic. Money today is fiat currency -meaning, there is nothing but “will” behind the currency- with no real value except the cost of the paper is printed.
Most of the wealth created in the past 25 years has been accumulated by a very small amount of people using “asymmetric knowledge” using a Noble Laureate term.
I am not Nobel Laureate, thus, in my words it s called ripping of the assets of citizens using corruption as main tool.
Today, leaders all over the word and I mean all over, no excluding America, after individuals gain power, in business, policing or policy, there is a sudden hidden act of lowering on their standards of decency.
Greed must be an Ok action when you act alone in a forest, but it is not such good behavior when you have to fund schools, paved the streets we must walk or tax others.
By now, there is a large sense that something is amiss in the way we are living. The most clear is the mental state of global fear. In some cases this fear is well found. In other cases fear is government induced, by direct actions or use of media. From the reporting words of African killer bees to the next assassin in the making.
One constant realization by individuals is, as each fear accumulates, the way to act freely is reduce proportionally as fears increase.
By now, it should be not secret that citizen participation and leaders behavior via institutions and representation is at the same level of Louis XV, King George, Franco or Mussolini. Comparing T. Blair primer of England to King George is not that difficult, nor it is to equate most other present leaders to some other abusive leader.
From an exuberant greedy investor point of view oppression of citizens is the best investment decision can be made, because it is very easy to corrupt leaders with money. Those Russian billionaires moving around the planet are part of the pudding, Chinese communist billionaires -if sounds weird- are growing, or CEOs billion dollar packages in capitalist efficient markets are examples of citizens idiotic approach to accountability and participation.
Idiocy is not an uncommon treat that benefits abusers. Today, losing citizens freedoms via democracy is nothing it has happen out of the blue. When US Today reports that America has lost democracy, (US Today 2/28/06 last page section A)it is not something to shrub off the shoulder calmly and keep it the prevalent social apathy.
It is known of social scientists that people react to fear and are willing to give up their rights in fear of losing something bigger. Scientists also know that after the lose of rights occurs, it is not likely for citizens to regain their freedom of fearless behavior and their rights continue to deteriorate over time in a manner it is not perceived as alarming. That is the real alarming turning point, and I think many we think we have turned the danger point.
From a speculator point of view the capacity to corrupt leaders with money is and advantageous situation, in front of the rest of people, with not access to capital. This is understood to apply all humans. There is a wonderful study done by three retired generals of the Israeli secret service in which they quantify the amount of money need it to bribe a politician depending the action demanded from the individual. After a few years negotiating labor contracts I learned that it take very little money to buy people.
Today, democracy has lost its freedom and eventually those who sold it to the highest bidders will regret their actions and its consequences.