in capitalist America, the bank robs you!
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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.
I assume as in "The" Onion? I wouldn't have high hopes but I wouldn't blame them for trying around the time that was probably made.
Yes. It is extremely stupid and some of the jokes are very dated but it's still funny.
It's a whole movie? I thought all the Key & Peele sketches were just short sketches.
also relevant key and peele skit
Fuck you key and peele publishers
replace youtu.be in the URL with yewtu.be.
here, for your convenience: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=jgYYOUC10aM
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.
Yeah, but it's not that direct a process, and while there's still interest in the currency we can support a lot more of it. High interests have also meant less spending and lower inflation.
Really the currency losing value is something that happens always so just getting anything in return is a win, though it sucks for people holding money without a good investment.
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.
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Oof, fell for the oldest scam in the book. The real money's in issuing loans, not bank telling.
I don't get it.
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..."
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