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/ 2009-01-25 15:22
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Medieval trade merchants regularly tried to cheat one another in the market place. In doing so they used other merchants' ignorance of arithmetic to swindle them. Arithmetic - which at the time consisted mostly of knowledge of Arab numerals, four basic mathematical operations and the "golden rule", or the "rule of three", where a missing fourth number in two equal ratios is found - has just reached Europe by way of Arab merchants. Between 13th and 16th centuries a group of merchants in Europe, particularly in Italy, wrote manuscripts to teach merchants' children, who attended special training schools, the newly received arithmetic. But what is perhaps most interesting about these manuscripts is that almost all of them teach how to use arithmetic, particularly in the act of barter, to cheat their trading opponents nad increase what they called the "overprice". As such, these medieval manujscripts taught that the rule of exchange was to come out ahead in transaction and that barter was "nothing but giving a good for another in order to get more."
To make long story short, in the medieval markets arithmetic became a tool , a "financial innovation" to use the language of the modern market, to make more money. The rule of the game was to take advantage of arithmetical iognorance of others to gain as much profit as possible. This was how capitalism was born. It was born not of honesty, equality, justice or fairness in exchange, but of deceit, swindle, inequality, injustice nad unfairness.
Podobnie przećwiczyli u nas "transformację", czy ostatnio "opcje walutowe", a na całym świecie "mortgage-backed securities, collateralized debt obligations, equity default swaps. crredit default swaps, i dziesiątki, jeśli nie setki innych "innowacji finansowych" na taką skalę, które nie dość, że zawaliły całą gospodarkę światową. Bańka derywatów stworzona przez wielkie banki sięga obecnie setek bilionów dolarów. System bankowy został stworzony tak, żeby te wielkie banki mogły zawsze wydostać się ze swoich ryzykownych inwestycji na koszt podatników, ale dotarł on tym razem do swoich matematycznych granic. Nie ma wystarczająco dużo pieniędzy na całym świecie, żeby uratować te banki od niemożności spłaty zobowiązań na ogromną skalę. Jak inwestorzy w te instrumenty zorientują się, że "ubezpieczenie" od katastrofy, jakie kupowali w formie derywatów jest nic nie warte, będą skakali z tego tonącego statku zanim się rozpadnie.