The Paris Gravity Well, Part II: Trillionization
Charlie said, “That’s the trouble. You see it the way the banking industry sees it and they make money by manipulating money irrespective of effects in the real world. You’ve spent a trillion dollars of American taxpayers’ money over the lifetime of the bank and there’s nothing to show for it. You go into poor countries and force them to sell their assets to foreign investors and to switch from subsistence agriculture to cash crops. Then, when the prices of those crops collapse, you call this “nicely competitive” on the world market. The local populations starve and you then insist on austerity measures even though your actions have shattered their economy….
“You were intended to be the Marshall Plan, and instead you’ve been carpetbaggers.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, Sixty Days and Counting: Science in the Capitol (2007).
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