#Fraud
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FTX Monkey Business & Eat the Rich
In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss the indictment and extradition of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried charged with fraud, money laundering, the downstream effects of one of the largest financial frauds of all time and the financial house of cards the global economy is built upon. Then we entertain the thought experiment of the wealthy and powerful in America turning on each other and what this type of family feud would look like in today's bizarro world of wealth and power distribution. Next we move into influence pedaling and clever bribery schemes in politics allowing the enrichment of politicians. Fiat currencies and debt as wealth global schemes, followed by more examples and remedies to deal with a wide range of monkey businesses.
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Tiers of Wealth, Justice & Subjective Reality
In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss, an arc of topics from the Pope as an apologist, for fraud waste and abuse to the Sackler family profiting from much the same, and offering the same sort of tacit, and weak apology. From there we look at history and access to information. Visualizing wealth distribution, alongside a world of unparalleled productivity, speed and scale. We talk about the lives of the independently wealthy, those who own the means of production. Proffering a tiered model of wealth and justice. We conclude by offering up a list of tools that can shift the balance of power and a proposal for a Community College class to disseminate it.
