light from light, truth from truth, money from money, reading about LBO's, corporate raiders, investment bankers, stock market, wall street, making money from money. producers? creators? money from money. whole industry taking a non product, a group hallucination, a faith based item, a thought, and making more of the same. what happens if it goes away? what happens if industry is based on actual production, returns, efficiency? i'm no economist, no financial expert, so I'm speaking, well, as uninformed as one could probably be. but seriously, a company makes a product, provides a service. people invest in the company to own a piece of the company, to have ownership, because of a belief in the product or service, because it's the place that provides them their job, their livelihood. Why even be publicly offered? take all companies private again. stocks/shares are meant as a means of generating capital. like treating the public as a giant bank providing a loan. so when I buy shares in a company, I am lending my money to the company for use. At some point I would hope the company would buy back all the stock it sold after it makes money after using the loan for capital improvements. so all companies would be privately owned. good or bad? basically i'm advocating that large corporations, multinationals, zaibatsus, keiretsu, comglomerates go away. i'm pushing for, well, what some would say, huge step backs in civilization. which returns to my thoughts on societal evolution. stop thinking small, and thinking huge, and well, the little things like money makers making money from money, well, is just part of the bad that comes with growth and change.