INTERNET BULL MARKET

By: Stephanie Shepard

www.timeofcalamity.com

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Is it possible for the internet to over extend itself? Are there constraints to the internet? Is there such a thing as digital over expansion? Is there going to come a time where we will overload the internet with too information of our own peril? How much information and digital economy can the human brain comprehend?

We speak of collapse in the sense of economic and warfare. Have we ever truly considered if there is a breaking point pertaining to the internet? Most will testify to its unlimited information. But is there any real world value to the internet? People certainly are not getting smarter or more well informed. We have basically handed our lives over to people who can control us with our own personal information.

Since the rise of the internet we have become fools detached from the basic principle of value. Many will spend an exhausted amount of income to stay connected. Without any promise of returned real world value. Our disconnection to the earth, our family, our friends, and our income is becoming obvious. Is there a point when people give up on the internet?

 

Millennials Are Taking Over The Internet, Not The Economy

 

Millennials graduating high school and college are faced with a drastically different job market than their elders. There is no sending a simple resume to a company nor filling out a paper job application. Now it is an insane mental minefield of HR hurdles combined with social networking sites. Got a LinkedIn account? How many “connections” do you have? Got a Facebook account? How many “friends” do you have? Got a Twitter account? Who is “following” you? What online certifications do you have? Do you know C+++? What apps have do you have? Do you know how to type?

Then comes the potential employee questionaire. What would you do if your boss asked you to lie? What would you do if you witnessed two employees arguing? What would be the best way to resolve conflict between employees? Have you ever lied? Have you ever used drugs? Have you ever knowingly or unknowingly broke the law? Do you think drugs should legal? Are you a smoker? Do you smoke cigarettes? Do you eat red meat? Do you know the pledge of allegiance? Have you ever been fired? Have you ever left the work force? What were your reasons for leaving the work force? Are you a fast learner? Can you code a website, fight ninjas, and cook a Filet Mignon in under 15 minutes? Who do think will get voted off American Idol this week?

The job market has swayed from “help wanted” and ” no positions available” to “Always taking applications”. Every business in America is always taking applications to pull off the facade of employment opportunities. The real truth is the pool of available work is shrinking. More businesses are closing or downsizing. Leaving only part-time low wage jobs that could be performed with less than a high school education. Even those jobs require an excessive amount of hoops to jump through and a call back time of a month.

 

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We have distanced ourselves so far away from real production and profit we don’t realize there is no longer a productive or profitable economy. There is the illusion of a real world economy. Backed by the few on the top and Wall Street “gains” to testify to a functioning economy.  What is robbing our economy further is the distance between Millennials and real jobs. Now it is 4-5 years in college then wasted time to build up a network and work numerous internships.  The debt black hole of productive means keeps sucking away. Burying the Millennials further into the debtors wasteland. Right behind them are Baby Boomers and Generation Xers that have been sold the lie “You need more education”. If you are a young Boomer or older Gen X you have been sold this lie you need to go further into debt. You need more education to get out of the middle management rat race.

 

There is No Currency

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We no longer have enough legal tender for everybody. This goes beyond what the Fathers deemed as legal tender. This is more extreme then gold or stock value. We have no currency at all. We have a digital representation of a currency backed by absolutely nothing. If deflation hits, we are absolutely screwed. Apparently Warren Buffet is worth billions. Apparently his company Berkshire Hathaway is worth billions. I say “Prove it”. There is not enough printed U.S. dollars in circulation to back up Warren’s billions. There is not enough printed currency to back up any value of Wall Street and Shareholders.  Oprah Winfrey and Bill Gates are billionaire? Let them prove it to us. Let them show us their real wealth. It isn’t there.

Today’s modern billionaire and corporate monopoly elites are nothing more than equity hoarders. Equity does not equal cash. It does not equal gold. It does not represent value. It is just a word backed by nothing. The greatest offenders are equity groups. A collection of revolving digital representation of currency, circulating in a computer system, held by a group of equity hoarders. They spent their lives building equity. Trillions of numbers representing equity with no cash printed to back their claims.

The money in the bank does not exist. While the “bank runs” were happening in Cyprus many people freaked out they could not get their EU dollars, not even considering their money never existed in the first place. There was only so much money in those ATMs, with long lines around the block, of people withdrawing EU cash. The reason the banks shaved some off the top was to prop up their equity. Our bailouts of our banks served the same purpose. It was not to “save” these banks, it was to hide their non-functional purpose. Without cash there is no money. Without a house title there is no mortgage. Without proof of a loan there is no student debt crisis.

Without equity hoarders our system would have already stabilized and the dust of none value would have settled. We would have real value tied to home properties. We would have real value tied to wages. We would have real value of food, oil, and automobiles. We would not have a Trillion dollar mortgage on the Millennials futures because the money never existed in the first place. There would be no Trillion dollar credit card deb,t and those lending the debt would be out of business, as well as their products of debt.

The Baby Boomers Paid into the System

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The Baby Boomer generation is taking the brunt of this manipulation. As they should be sittin’ on their front porches,  playin’ canasta, and sippin’ sweet tea; instead they are still debt slaves to billionaire hoarders. Their wealth will never be enough to retire. The finish line will be pushed further out of reach. Even if they are able to collect a Social Security check at the age of 65, their work and contributions would have been in vain. They paid into a system that no longer exists. They paid real cash, from real labor, into a system that turned on them.

Most of the wealth they made in their prime earning years of the late 1990’s and 2000’s never even touched their hands. If they were lucky they were able to work full time . Their wages were direct deposited into their bank accounts, 401ks, Roth IRAs, and taxes were automatically deducted. They were shown paper and computer spread sheets of these transfers. Proof of wealth existence. They then payed their mortgages, second mortgages, auto loans, and their credit card debts. What was left over could either be withdrawn from their accounts in cash or be used to purchase goods with a swipe of a card. They could automatically transfer anything else into a savings account attached to their checking account.

In the past 20 years very little cash has passed into earners hands. Yet, somehow there has been rampant inflation. This is because the billionaire and equity hoarders have shoved their fake currency into the stock market and commodities market. There is very little U.S. dollars backing these stock gains. There is very little U.S. dollars backing mortgages, auto loans, credit card debt, or student loans. The 1% has no clothes, how long before the 99% realizes it is not their fault.

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TJF
TJF
March 6, 2014 8:28 am

So, if we only had more actual printed FRNs then things would be ok? You do realize that they are also backed by nothing right?

Stucky
Stucky
March 6, 2014 8:31 am

Good Lord! A grammar school teacher would need a case of red pens to correct all the mistakes. A Logic Professor’s head would explode.

I imagine this article was written via a Scrabble Game. Instead of individual letter, each piece is an entire word. Clams grabs 10 random pieces. “Damn, that’s gonna be a weird sentence!” Oh well, the show must go on.

“Vomitting Words” — a new game by Milton “Clams” Bradley
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ragman
ragman
March 6, 2014 9:51 am

Non: it’s pretty fucking stupid to question a person’s professional ability just because you might disagree with his/hers opinions.

gilberts
gilberts
March 6, 2014 11:35 am

Don’t let us get to you about your writing; there’s always room for improvement. Many of us also take issue with your ideas, which are frequently absolutely, laughably, incredibly wrong.

gilberts
gilberts
March 6, 2014 11:54 am

“IS- You have no point. I am published on various outlets. What sites publish you? Where are your great literary works available?”

Just because you blog online does not necessarily mean anyone values your work. I doubt many people wake up with a burning desire to see what a young, inexperienced, seemingly selfish, ignorant, and entitled woman thinks about the world.

When people start paying you to write, then it might be worth bragging about, but I doubt that will be any time soon because you don’t seem to have much of value to add to the conversation. You don’t seem to have a great deal of experience or education or wisdom to share in the continuing dialogue of this site.

When I find myself in a conversation with folks who have a lot more experience and knowledge than I do, I do more listening than speaking. You learn a lot more that way, too. To quote from Tarantino, “The less apt a man is to make declarative statements, the less apt he is to look foolish in retrospect.”

Punk in Drublic
Punk in Drublic
March 6, 2014 12:07 pm

I spent four or five evenings writing my debut article about Hillary. Many hours, tediously going over word choices, re reading and tweaking every sentence, deleting whole paragraphs. All to avoid the shitshow that ensues on Stephanie’s articles. Knowing that these fuckers on TBP are exceedingly intelligent and ruthless when it comes to grammar and structure, I wanted to make damn sure it was perfect. It paid off.

I can’t judge Stephanie for her writing skills, got no ground to stand on. My girlfriend, Hot for Teacher, read and re read the thing about 10 times, making dozens and dozens of corrections. Without a cutthroat editor I would have been torn apart much like she has been. I’ve got no illusions about my lack of education, I’m acutely aware that I don’t know good writing from bad. There is a big difference between acknowledging your own ignorance and limitations and embracing them, however. Believing that it doesn’t matter is not what I would recommend.

Anyway, I liked your article, Steph.

Nonanonymous
Nonanonymous
March 6, 2014 1:25 pm

Herr Stuck, way to pile on. You’re late for class, again!

ragman, bite me. I agree with his opinions. I just think he’s an condescending ass, and he would probably agree. As for you, chill out. I wasn’t talking to you, or about you.

Treemagnet
Treemagnet
March 6, 2014 2:54 pm

Stephanie, agree with you and the points you’ve made in post after post. This one’s got a lot going on in it, at least to me – looks like at least a couple of topics worthy of their own piece. I doubt the boomers are getting you down, and that’s good, their narcissism owns them mostly – and no way are they gonna sit and read a younger person’s criticism’s of what they’ve done and what they’re owed. The grammatical stuff, a little bit, no sweat – just low hanging fruit for the responses to nibble at….facts don’t matter when there’s a misspelling I guess. Rage against the machine. Oh yeah, I’m not a boomer. I can’t believe I made it through a whole post without swearing – I’m growing.

Stucky
Stucky
March 6, 2014 3:25 pm

“Treefucker and Clams” ……… a perfect couple

Treemagnet
Treemagnet
March 6, 2014 3:33 pm

@stucky, you boomers are as bad as the silents. Nobody cares what you’ve got really, its when you start they hypocrisy shit that gets ’em fired up. Not me though, cool smooth water over the damn – yeah, I wish. I yell because I care maybe? Anyway, none of it means shit – the meat of T4T is comin’ and it won’t care who cares. I realize as a boomer this is difficult to grasp, that’s right, T4T won’t care about …..me?!

Punk in Drublic
Punk in Drublic
March 6, 2014 4:55 pm

“I spit in the faces of the system they are invested in, all of a sudden my writing is on par with a 3rd grader who speaks ebonics.”

Funny, that didn’t happen with my article. Why do you think that is?

Stephanie
Stephanie
March 6, 2014 4:57 pm

Punk in Drublic- Write articles on a numerous basis they don’t agree with and you too will hear the rally wheeze of the geezers.

ragman
ragman
March 6, 2014 5:25 pm

Non: eat shit and die!

Punk in Drublic
Punk in Drublic
March 6, 2014 5:27 pm

So they were just being nice to me? And they are just being mean to you? Got nothing to do with the content of the piece? Is that what your’re saying?

IndenturedServant
IndenturedServant
March 6, 2014 5:31 pm

Yeah clammy, it’s because we disagree with your subject matter that we point out your atrocious grammar etc.

When people disagree with your subject matter they point it out too. Like this:

“You know digital numbers not backed by paper fiat currency, not back by gold.” (not even a sentence by the way)

The digital numbers are backed up by treasury bonds owned by the fed and foreign creditors which represent more debt owed by the taxpayers. It is completely impractical to print up ten billion $100 FRN’s although the bonds are directly convertible to legal tender currency. You are correct that the paper is not backed by gold but most of us here were aware of that while you were still in diapers. You know dick about our currency system and I know very slightly more than dick about it but I’m I’m not ignorant or arrogant enough to preach to others about it.

Oh yeah, and your grammar sucks too.

So again, how does your atrocious writing of which you are so proud deliver anything of value to your readers? Your product is your writing. Sell your product and tell us why we should choose to read your articles over say…….the other 10,000 articles out there on the same subject? What new info or conclusions to you bring to the table besides fuck you and I hope you die?

As for your claim that admin just spoon feeds us info….that is utter bullshit and if you had any reading comprehension skills you’d know that. I guess real skills are just an old left over remnant of the boomer generation for minnies like you. It shows.
I_S

Stephanie
Stephanie
March 6, 2014 5:51 pm

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Solismart
Solismart
March 6, 2014 6:00 pm

Stephanie, help us out here! You said, “Stucky- What did you think about my currency theory? You know digital numbers not backed by paper fiat currency, not back by gold. How do you think that is effecting our economy?”

It’s ‘affecting’! We’ll see 100 comments by morning. Huzzah!

Llpoh
Llpoh
March 6, 2014 6:12 pm

Clam says: “Write articles on a numerous basis….”.

Seriously, is that English? A numerous basis? Just what the fuck is that? Is it articles based on numbers? Is it an article based on many different themes?

Clam – you post this shit, and out of 100 comments, fifty are of folks telling you what a dolt you are, and the other fifty are you telling those fifty to go fuck themselves.

What say you actually educate yourself? We are starting to think of your time in “college” as “the lost years”. More probable you are lying and dropped out at the end of fifth grade, by the look of things.

And to claim you are a published author – that is truly laughable. Are you getting paid?

Damn, clam, you are a glutton for punishment.

Stephanie
Stephanie
March 6, 2014 6:28 pm

Solismart- “It’s ‘affecting’! We’ll see 100 comments by morning. Huzzah!”

No, you are wrong.

“Affect” as a verb. To have an influence on; to impress or to move; to produce a change in something or someone.

Ex. His study was intended to show how alcohol affects reaction time.

“Effect” as a verb. To produce a result; to cause something to occur; to bring about an outcome.

Ex. Smith said the cutbacks were designed to effect basic economies for the company.

Stephanie
Stephanie
March 6, 2014 6:35 pm

““Write articles on a numerous basis….”

Basis- anything upon which something is based; fundamental principle; groundwork.

numerous- more than one.

Anonymous
Anonymous
March 6, 2014 7:35 pm

Isn’t she precious?!!

MuckAbout
MuckAbout
March 6, 2014 8:08 pm

I’d love to see more posts by Stephanie. They all crank up a voluminous thread of vituperation, argument and dualing bullshit! Keep up the good work Steph……

MA

Stucky
Stucky
March 6, 2014 8:15 pm

Clams giving grammar lessons?

That’s some funny shit right there.
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EL ILegal
EL ILegal
March 6, 2014 8:20 pm

Stephanie says:

““Write articles on a numerous basis….”

Basis- anything upon which something is based; fundamental principle; groundwork.

numerous- more than one.

It’s all so clear once she explains it, you old knuckleheads don’t understand the new math either.

Llpoh
Llpoh
March 6, 2014 8:39 pm

Clam responds by posting a rebuttal as stupid as the original comment.

So her article is based on more than one. More than one what?

I suspect she wanted to claim that she produces numerous articles. But she could not find the words to make that point.

Clam – “numerous articles”.

Buy a clue, why don’t you? .

Anonymous
Anonymous
March 6, 2014 9:01 pm

As for how many bits and bytes one can stand.. I guess it would depend on what those ones and zeroes constituted.

Video. Terrabytes.

What some pundit writes. Maybe a few Megabytes.

Math. One 1 and one 0

Tweets. 140 characters.

“We speak of collapse in the sense of economic and warfare. Have we ever truly considered if there is a breaking point pertaining to the internet?” -Sam

I suspect it wil l come down to how many sattelites can be place in orbit and their bandwidth capacity.

EL ILegal
EL ILegal
March 6, 2014 9:37 pm

Steph, I am sure you have heard the old KISS maxim, Keep It Stupid Simple. Your ‘write articles on a numerous basis’ would be more clear if you wrote: write numerous articles.

Still, I detest military slang jargon more than your English errors. Number one on my list is ‘Edumacation’ followed by basically, per se, and a bunch of other useless filler words. At least your errors are creative and not expressions that were old when Stuck was a corporal.

Stephanie
Stephanie
March 6, 2014 9:41 pm

I didn’t mean “write numerous articles.”. I meant numerous basis. So that is what I wrote.

Punk in Drublic
Punk in Drublic
March 6, 2014 10:00 pm

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Anonymous
Anonymous
March 6, 2014 10:15 pm

“…you old knuckleheads don’t understand the new math either.” El

Citing facts not in evidence.

Anonymous
Anonymous
March 6, 2014 10:24 pm

eat shit and die!

Ah, yes, what a clever adage. Let’s fix this falsity and thereby create a new adage.

It is not the shit I ate that caused my demise, but that what I could not shit.

Anonymous
Anonymous
March 6, 2014 10:34 pm

I cannot consume all the shit on the internet , therefore it will not die. Hundreds of servers issuing untold terrabytes of absolute shit. But someone wrote, uploaded, edited and published that shit, why is it they can eat the shit they espouse and not die?

Why do so many people want to put shit on the shitternet? Because it’s shitty? Because people want shit? That we are used to shit on billboards, the train, bus and plane? Shit in the streets, shit talkers on the radio and tv? Sure, you stop watching, seeing, listening to that shit only to embrace another form of it.

Have you died from it?

Solismart
Solismart
March 6, 2014 11:14 pm

Stephanie, check yo self. Listen, learn. Here’s your sentence:

“How do you think that is effecting our economy?”

Lets state that differently:

“How do you think that is influencing our economy?”

You see, ‘affecting’ is mos def the right word here. A book that may have an effect (see the difference?) on your writing would be Strunk and White’s ‘Elements of Style’. Axing all them passive verbs makes an essay much more readable. Huzzah!

Stephanie
Stephanie
March 6, 2014 11:19 pm

I own ‘Elements of Style’, you are wrong.

Solismart
Solismart
March 6, 2014 11:32 pm

But you surely see that improper usage of words such as effect and affect distract potential readers from the points you are hoping to elucidate?

Anonymous
Anonymous
March 6, 2014 11:44 pm

Elements of style. This is what babushka? Have you little style?

“I style the elements of my numerous writings.”

Anonymous
Anonymous
March 6, 2014 11:48 pm

The tractor green as the french say
The green tractor as the west says

EL ILegal
EL ILegal
March 7, 2014 12:06 am

Anonymous says:

“…you old knuckleheads don’t understand the new math either.” El Citing facts not in evidence.”

Lighten up, Francis. I was joking that since folks admitted they did not understand the new math, perhaps the fault is not in the Clam but in themselves.

Anonymous
Anonymous
March 7, 2014 12:27 am

Lighten up, Francis. I was joking that since folks admitted they did not understand the new math, perhaps the fault is not in the Clam but in themselves. -El

I didnt blame sam for new math. Yet I understand new math to be what it is, when your child comes to you and asks why, many parents cannot answer it. I hope I simplified it for you and your kids.

EL ILegal
EL ILegal
March 7, 2014 12:41 am

Solismart, that is a conflation of Solis and smart I suppose but it reminds me of my dumb friend John who could not grasp that the Spanish word for baseball was merely the same word pronounced with Spanish intonation. He struggled to pronounce it: beh ease bowl. I said, no just say it like ‘vase vol’ he struggled as I do trying to pronounce ‘solismart’.

Anonymous
Anonymous
March 7, 2014 12:46 am

solismart

sounds like a place to buy dim bulbs

Punk in Drublic
Punk in Drublic
March 7, 2014 1:25 am

“Punk in Drublic- Write articles on a numerous basis they don’t agree with and you too will hear the rally wheeze of the geezers.”

Numerous: Multiple, Several, Many.

Basis: Pattern, Schedule, Frequency

See why this statement makes no logical sense, Stephanie? Write articles on a multiple pattern? A Many schedule? A several frequency? And you refuse to even entertain the idea that you don’t know what you are talking about, despite being given every chance to rethink your statement. You just keep digging.

Nonanonymous
Nonanonymous
March 7, 2014 7:50 am

What a surprise, LL and I_S in agreement that Steph is a stupid cunt. I’m sure they hold their wives in high esteem, too. It’s not the first time LL has shit all over somebody, and then pretends to be a charitable asshole. But hey, who wants to argue with success, not me!

I_S is presumably reasonably intelligent, yet not very charitable, either. He has a world view with him at the top of the pyramid and nothing is going to change that, not even if Jesus Christ was to appear and, hey, what’s that! Anyway, I_S is quite full of himself, whether rightly so or not, he makes a point. He and DC and ride off into the sunset together. I_S is comfortable in his life, so why should he change, or lift a finger for anyone other than himself?

ragman, you want to defend AWD, go ahead. Your attacks directed at me are without substance and merit.

This post is classic generational discontent, and it’s nice to see everyone playing their roles so perfectly. I’ve stood on the divide my entire life, being a late boomer, well, not even a boomer. It took me a long time to find a place in the established order of society. Only because I’m better at what I do than most people.

Therein lies the key, and what I teach my children. Figure out what you’re good at, and what you enjoy doing, and maybe someone will pay you for it. The worst thing a parent or anyone in a position of responsibility can do is tell someone they don’t suck at something, when they do.

Stephanie, the internet doesn’t pay. It can, but you have to be in the top tier. There’s an 80-20 rule of human nature. You have to figure out how to get in the top 20%. I’m all for social media, and it’s a great tool, but it’s not a substitute for anything. Freedom of information is transforming the world as we speak. There are those which are fighting for their very survival in the Ukraine and elsewhere, which can be assisted by the information which the internet provides. Knowing the we support the people, in their quest for autonomy, while our government and the EU fight the Russian government over control of their resources. What is wrong with this picture. If you support freedom and democracy, tell the foreign powers to get out, and take control of your own destiny. This is the fight which we face in this country, too, so personally, I don’t care about grammar. I care about ideas. I_S just cares about his more than yours.

Solismart
Solismart
March 7, 2014 7:59 am

Only got to 97.

Solismart
Solismart
March 7, 2014 8:04 am

I had originally used Solidum, but the boomer class quickly changed that to Solid Dumb, in an effort to derail the multiplicity of hard hitting writing comment pieces I produced. Then I re emerged as Solismart, pronounced with a silent ‘t’. 98!

Stephanie
Stephanie
March 7, 2014 8:13 am

Nonanon- Well said. It is quickly forgotten on this site that I have been writing for less than a year. I am not out to compete with anyone other than myself. That being said, I am no longer open to 90% suggestion from TBP crowd based on tact of delivery. I do not care for the advice from other who do not consistently write. I do not care for advice from those who only contribute to the site only through mockery in the comment section. To me, it tears down the integrity of the site. I don’t agree with most of the older members of the site. They attack my grammar and syntax, in return I find most of their to be tedious and boring.

EL ILegal
EL ILegal
March 7, 2014 8:52 am

Stephanie says:

“They attack my grammar and syntax, in return I find most of their to be tedious and boring.”

Definitely the greater crime.