Explain the global economy to me in three succinct sentences.

[insanity]

I've only got one, "It's royally fucked"

[Deja Q]

1. "No it isn't"

:) :) :)

[skooooo]

29. Yes it is!

Isn't this the department of complaints?? lol

[RandomThoughts]

2. Hows this.

Are you talking about the economy.

Or what we are told the economy is.

They are not always the same.

[insanity]

9. Both actually,

The economic crisis is a great storyline for the media... it keeps us frightened and watching.

I also get the reality that this was a correction that most sane people could have seen a mile away but didn't stop because they blinded by greed.

[ismnotwasm]

3. Two sentences

Them that has, gets.
Them that ain't got, don't.

[charlyvi]

4. Three words.

We are fucked.

[Deja Q]

6. Splendid! People have told me I need to get laid.

About time somebody does more than simply talk in a better-than-the-world tone of voice. :rofl:

[Ptah]

5. I'll try.

People make stuff.
People grow stuff.
People buy stuff.

[insanity]

7. I like that

Gets the point across

[MichiganVote]

8. One word: Worthless.

[Dangerously Amused]

10. 'kay.

The rich exploit the poor.
The rich grow richer.
The poor stay poor.

[Ptah]

14. How rich?

[Dangerously Amused]

15. You're right, probably not the best choice of words.

One can be poor and yet still have a rich life. Maybe "wealthy" would have been more accurate.

I love your old pics. How you been?

:hi:

[Ptah]

16. I've been pretty good.

Daughter has been at her job for four months,
son will be free in another four months.


They were so cute!

[LeftyMom]

11. Everybody's fucked. Except the rich. Provided the rest of us don't eat them.

[Ellen Forradalom]

12. One sound.

FLUSSSSHHHHHHH

:hurts:

[ghostsofgiants]

13. One succinct picture...

The girl is rich white folk. The house is earth.

[tigereye]

17. sadly, this is probably fairly accurate...

:(

The amount of pain and destruction caused by global economic desire, greed and control seems to have no effect on those who promulgate it. You can visit pretty much any country on the planet and see the effects. A rising tide does not always lift all boats.

[ghostsofgiants]

21. Even if it does lift 'em all, a small shitty boat is still a small shitty boat.

[KurtNYC]

18. that's a tall challenge...

1. The global economy is arbitrage which seeks to exploit differences in regional labor, transportation and commodities costs versus variances in the regional prices of finished goods.

2. Billions in global trade occurs in drugs and war/weapons/crime (and most economics courses ignore this).

3. In spite of how bad things may look at the moment, as long as there are things to be bought and sold the global economy will not collapse; at least to the degree and in the way it would if this was the result of famine, world war or epidemic.

[Jamastiene]

19. 1. American isn't doing so great financially.

2. That means the rest of the world isn't doing so great financially either because of globalization.
3. China will pwn us all soon.

[otherlander]

20. 1. The disease is sold as the cure.

2. Personal sustenance becomes obsolete.
3. Radical monopolies ensue.

[arcadian]

22. It's hot as shit outside. Feels like we're standing in greenhouse. What's that tumor on your face?

How's that?

[Celebration]

23. Every country trades with others

All other countries make goods.
We do things like have garage sales, do each other's laundry, and cut up paper assets into derivatives.

[Dark]

24. 2003: Holy Fuck it's going up. 2006: Fuckin'-a I gotta get in on this. 2009:

Anybody got a fuckin' quarter?

[insanity]

25. great!

[Deep13]

26. People take stuff from the Earth.

We consume stuff made from that stuff.

We are running out of marterial.

[SOteric]

27. Okay...

A. - Some folks live in 'civilisation' and have a metric fuckton of stuff.
B. - Some folks live in mud-covered hovels and have nothing.
C. - Any day now, Group A will have to learn to live like Group B.

[AngryAmish]

28. One third of the human race lives in abject poverty

Most of the rest have some comforts.

A few percent live well.

[Aristus]

30. Okay:

1. Rich people hate you.
2. Rich people hate everybody.
3. Rich people want all of the money they stole all to themselves.

End of list.

[Fire Walk With Me]

31. Okay.

It's our fault for being tremendously selfish. We manifested Bush and friends. Now we get to replace it with something better.

[unpossibles]

32. to paraphrase Matt Groening

The global economy is a snowmobile racing across the tundra.
Suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath.
At night, the ice weasels come.