{"id":52191,"date":"2020-04-05T19:05:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T00:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52191"},"modified":"2020-04-05T19:05:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T00:05:54","slug":"the-jackpot-chronicles-scenario-1-force-majeure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52191","title":{"rendered":"The JackPot Chronicles Scenario 1: Force Majeure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/guerrilla-capitalism.com\/articles\/the-jackpot-chronicles-scenario-1-force-majeure\/\">The JackPot Chronicles Scenario 1: Force Majeure<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/guerrilla-capitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/shutterstock_498982093-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-902\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This is the second instalment of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/guerrilla-capitalism.com\/articles\/welcome-to-the-jackpot\/\">The Jackpot Chronicles: Four Possible Post-Coronavirus Scenarios.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Force Majeure means:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>a chance occurrence or superior force that renders a contract unenforceable and frees all parties from their obligations under it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>We are frequently told that there exists some manner of \u201cSocial Contract\u201d to which we are implicitly bound by virtue of being alive. This implied Social Contract confers legitimacy upon the institutions that order our world, the national governments, the central banks, the miltary and police. And by extension certain communication outlets and media are endowed with a status of official curators over the narratives around institutional power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the Force Majeure Scenario, the first of four possible Coronavirus aftermaths posited in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/guerrilla-capitalism.com\/articles\/welcome-to-the-jackpot\/\">\u201cWelcome to the Jackpot\u201d<\/a>, the overwhelming or superior force is not the pandemic itself, but rather the collapse of the debt supercycle, the monetary system that derives from it, and the structure of nation states that are burgeoned by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last time we were here, when a systemic crisis has shaken the foundation of the social order, the policy response was favourable to one party of the social contract at the expense of the others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The GFC, which I now call GFC 1.0 or GFC \u201808, saw the financialized class, those closest to the monetary spigots of the Central Banks enjoy accelerating prosperity as their asset values rose, whilst the rest of the population endured stagnation and a steadily increasing cost-of-living (which mainstream commentators refused to acknowledge as inflation).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The policy response from the last crisis has led us directly, in a straight line to this one. The only surprise being the exact nature of the catalyst which would pop the Everything Bubble, and perhaps the ferocity with which the air began to let out once it did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The JackPot Chronicles Scenario 1: Force Majeure This is the second instalment of&nbsp;The Jackpot Chronicles: Four Possible Post-Coronavirus Scenarios. Force Majeure means: a chance occurrence or superior force that renders a contract unenforceable and frees all parties from their obligations under it. We are frequently told that there exists some manner of \u201cSocial Contract\u201d to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,7],"tags":[29321,29322,29320,23383,7739,855],"class_list":["post-52191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-force-majeure","tag-guerrilla-capitalism","tag-jackpot-chronicles","tag-mark-e-jeftovic","tag-social-contract","tag-viral-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52192,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52191\/revisions\/52192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}