Theft Should be Rewarded

The title defies the moral of honesty. Theft is an elegant way to test the system. A friend recently told me her feelings about travel in strange places. She said her belief was that if she lost her wallet anywhere in the world 9 out of ten people would return it to her if they found it. She has traveled extensively because she was not afraid to travel. Once her camera was stolen but it was stolen in such an ingenious manner that her recognition of the skill of the person that took it was greater than the feeling of personal loss.

Testing the system for personal gain not permitted by the rules of the system benefits the system by exposing its weakness. Any system always has a weakness. The dangerous thief is the one that kills the goose to get the golden eggs.

The thieves of our economic system test it to expose failures. Correcting failures improves the system. The economic system thieves have collapsed the system. They not only killed the goose but will choke on the last golden egg they got from it. A catastrophic event for them, maybe good for us. An opportunity but 9/11 was also. To do what is another matter.

The wise thieves that always stole golden eggs from the system are desperate to keep that system going. They did not have enough control of the crooks that worked for them. All the crooks and thieves have served their purpose to expose the failure of the economic system. If we do not change the system we are fools to be preyed upon again.

A system that makes money on money without adding value, creates money out of nothing to make more money on money without adding value is a thief skinning the cat in the most elegant manner. It is however a system that cannot grow exponentially forever and therefore will not. We all take a haircut in the end but the thieves and their opportunity to continue to steal must come to an end as a function of the system correcting itself.

The system is to big to fail. We should not confuse the system with an institution that only seems to represent it and claims to be to big to fail by claiming to be the system. It is not. We are the system. The system that makes money on money bets has to be made to go away in an elegant manner that puts the sting on them.

When all the money in the world is debt money have we got to the point where everything in the world has been gained at the cost of going into debt for losing it all?

That is the same situation that faces us in the natural world.

Will we in the end skin ourselves in the most elegant manner by gleefully jumping out of our own skin much to the amusement of the only Thing left after we are gone? The big joke would be that there is no Thing left to enjoy this ultimate elegance and It was never there in the first place. The most elegant skinning in all time and eternity and Nobody to enjoy its beauty?