2y ago

1 December 2023

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in capitalist America, the bank robs you!
- i thought i had something to say, but it turns out it was this.
- Give a man a gun and he will rob a bank.
  Give a man a bank and he will rob the world.
Reminds me of The Onion movie: https://youtu.be/1XFw1jRKRwQ?feature=shared
- I fucking love this clip, watch it every time it's posted.
  Is the whole movie worth watching?
  
  Haven't watched it in quite a while so I don't know how it holds up. But I think it's a fun watch.
  
  Yes. It is extremely stupid and some of the jokes are very dated but it's still funny.
- also relevant key and peele skit
  https://youtu.be/jgYYOUC10aM?si=dANcVKRQS4UZQSov
  
  Fuck you key and peele publishers
  
  Ah yes, the 50-year long con.
The bank robbed the people so the people rob the bank 🎵
But then they turn and join the bank instead v.v
Like 30 years ago banks gave interest rates upwards of 3%, now you have to be a part of an exclusive club to get more than 0.5%
- I got 5% on my ISA twenty years ago, and it really did feel like getting free money. Now my savings are depreciating so quickly I feel like I'd be better off spending it all. Not that it's very much.
- I get 15% currently from nu bank in mexico, and the mexican peso is appreciating vs the us dollar, so it really is a great deal.
  
  That sounds cool, but given that bank interest creates currency directly that means if it continues at that rate then eventually peso value will start to see a sharp decline.
- More like 40. I had a checking/savings account that my grandmother set up for me when I was born. It paid .5% interest on a checking account, and the savings acciunt paid 2.5%. They stopped giving those rates sometime in the 90s. Same bank charged me an "inactivity fee" in the mid 00s to 0 out the accounts and closed them.
  
  1993 was 30 years ago
Oof, fell for the oldest scam in the book. The real money's in issuing loans, not bank telling.
I don't get it.
- Being a banker is a real robbery.
  
  Every time I've put money in a bank, I've gotten out more than I put in. Where's the "robbery"?
- What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
  Bertolt Brecht
- Dont feel bad. Some people are just born stupid.
  Okay, edit: a very big /S , because modern internet.
  
  Haha, no edit needed; I can take it! I was thinking "so he's their inside man now, in a bigger heist? Or maybe it's commentary on wage-theft and low wages from big banks..."
- It reminds me of this Key and Peeled sketch
  
  Keyed and Peeled
Aaaaand, it's gone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3AM00DH0Zo

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