To test the truth of this, watch what happens when a chastened government caves on the initial issue - and instead of heading back home the protesters ramp it up.
Who even remembers what pulled France's Yellow Vests into the streets? The Macron government has spent months apologizing and offering big new spending programs aimed at the protesters' stated concerns.
Hong Kong repealed the law that ignited its riots back in June, yet today the story is protesters shooting police with arrows and Chinese soldiers deploying to help "Clean up the streets." Uh huh.
Looked at this way, the current wave of unrest is not easily fixed because the immediate remedy is even more easy money.
The result? Even more new money flowing into the elite via rising financial asset prices.
Not a single government is responding to protests with "Ok, we'll take a bunch of real wealth from the oligarchs and give it to the protesters." That solution obviously won't fly with the various versions of deep state/military industrial complex that are in charge out there.
Easy money, in contrast, 1) is technically doable, 2) appears at first glance to help the 99%, and 3) actually further enriches the 1%. So no one objects, the problem gets worse, and the next round of unrest is even bigger.
https://www.dollarcollapse.com/civil-unrest-new-normal/
Who even remembers what pulled France's Yellow Vests into the streets? The Macron government has spent months apologizing and offering big new spending programs aimed at the protesters' stated concerns.
Hong Kong repealed the law that ignited its riots back in June, yet today the story is protesters shooting police with arrows and Chinese soldiers deploying to help "Clean up the streets." Uh huh.
Looked at this way, the current wave of unrest is not easily fixed because the immediate remedy is even more easy money.
The result? Even more new money flowing into the elite via rising financial asset prices.
Not a single government is responding to protests with "Ok, we'll take a bunch of real wealth from the oligarchs and give it to the protesters." That solution obviously won't fly with the various versions of deep state/military industrial complex that are in charge out there.
Easy money, in contrast, 1) is technically doable, 2) appears at first glance to help the 99%, and 3) actually further enriches the 1%. So no one objects, the problem gets worse, and the next round of unrest is even bigger.
https://www.dollarcollapse.com/civil-unrest-new-normal/
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