The everchanging story

The link below is to a interesting story about financial manipulation. It is a little extreme as one would expect from Rolling Stone, but not at all that really unbelievable. It strikes me as what one must expect from capitalism taken as an end in itself.

Business began as trade. It works as give and take over time and distance and has a balance that provides opportunity for growth. When there is take with no give it becomes plunder and leaves only ruin. Conquest became a better alternative to plunder as it left business intact. Trade is needed if you are to have empire.

When we get to today! The only empires left are Financial ones. They have no borders and no allegiance to any country or nation.
The information age has made time compress times 1000. No investment can be long. Only Strip-mining makes sense. Ethics? Pleeeeeesse! Bonuses now now bonuses.

So here we are. Serial plunder is now the best business stragity.
Actually it is a bit more complicated than that. http://CNBC.com has a great report on how we got to where we are. http://www.cnbc.com/id/31187744
Work your way through it and be amazed.
Adaven