It's like... the numbers never added up. When average house prices went up by more than an average person could earn in a year, something was terribly wrong.
If everything is over-priced and everyone over-borrows to pay for it all, the only way to keep up is to rip the resources of the planet off. No-one factors what nature provides – they just take it for free. Nature is the only real input that feeds the system – minerals, human toil and animal/plant harvesting. But even pillaging the planet can't be done fast enough to cover the ridiculously stratospheric numbers conjured up in financial circles.
The worker is not much better off than the planet – the debts can't even be covered working 20-hour days, 7 days a week. Not even interest payments on the house can be covered at that rate, it seems.
You can't dig enough tin ore fast enough to feed the beast of the stock market, no matter how many guns are pointed at the poor Congolese peasants.
So of course the system will collapse. Thankfully it was the financial system first, not the natural system – you can't eat money.
New models must arise – and are arising. It's just that governments, business and the general public are hypnotised into thinking "this is the best system we have." The faulty logic being that communism failed, therefore we must have the best system in the universe.
Just because we have Mac and PC operating systems, doesn't mean there is not a far better way to run a computer than both of them.
That's my socio-political rant for the day! :-)
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