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The world's total debt just hit $324 trillion, but to whom?

(1) The question

$324 trillion in global debt

That's 3x the entire planet's GDP.

Every country owes

Every citizen pays

But no one asked the real question:

To whom?

Let's know to whom we owe debt!

(2) Everyone is in debt?

Governments are in debt.

Corporations are in debt.

People are in debt.

But someone—or something—

is on the other side of the balance sheet.

(3) To whom do we owe it?

Banks? No.

They're middlemen.

Nations? No.

They are borrowers.

The real answer sits quietly behind

Central bank, bond markets, and "lenders of last resort"

It's not a who-

It's a system.

(4) The system

A system designed to trap nations in perpetual interest payments.

Where debt is never meant to be repaid

only rolled over.

Inflation eats your savings.

Debt feeds their power.

(5) Say hello to the creditors!

Meet the creditors behind the curtain:

BlackRock

Vanguardia

IMF

BIS

Private central banks with shareholders

They don't want your currency. They can just print it!

They want your wealth and future cash flow.

(6) Even the U.S. is in debt.

The U.S. alone owes over 37 trillion. And it still sends billions overseas.

Why?

Because debt isn't a problem—it's a weapon.

Used to control politics, dictate austerity, and own public assets.

(7) How are we getting fooled?

Emerging nations? Drowning in interest.

Developed nations? Kicking the can.

And the creditors?

They're buying farmland, water, and data—real assets—while the rest hold paper promises.

(8) Remember?

So when they say "the world is in debt,"

Someone owns the debt.

And the more we owe,

the more they own.

(9) The final truth

324 trillion is not a crisis. It's a harvest.

One empire prints the currency.

The other nations pay the price.

And the creditor class?

They never lose.

They trap the world in numbers while escaping the collapse themselves.

What this misses is that it's all fiction. What's identified at the end of this chain of fictions is also, well, a fiction. Money is a fiction, it's a shared delusion. Companies are a fiction. Creditors owning farmland, that one's a fiction too.

So the answer to the question "to whom" here—"To whom are the debts truly owed?"—is our imaginations. Our imaginations are the ultimate creditor here. Not BlackRock or Vanguard.

A few things that are not fiction: Cantaloupes and getting punched in the face.

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I know what you mean. You mean they are legal fictions, a construction of our minds. And that’s right, the government, corporations, are all contracts products of our imagination. But behind those fictions there’s real humans taking real actions with real consequences.

Let me tell you what is not a fiction: how they poison our food, our water, how they fund wars, how they brainwashed us, how they indoctrinate us, how they manipulate us, how they steal our time, wealth and freedom.

So yes, they are fictions, but there’s real humans behind them. Where’s the line dividing the fiction with the reality?

Money can be a fiction but people will work their asses to get it, they will lie, cheat and even kill other humans to obtain it.

So be careful about the ficticios nature of this things, because they can be very real.

I totally agree that actions in response to fictions can be painfully (or wonderfully) real. And fiction driving action is basically how intelligence evolves. But sometimes I think it’s healthy to step back and admit that all of these things, even though the actions they drive are very real, are themselves not real at all. The moment we stop believing in them they just disappear.

And then contrast such things with actual things. If I’m walking home in the rain I can stop believing in rain all I want, I’m still getting wet.

Idk man, this sounds like some New age bs

This is the opposite of new age bs. New age bs is to assume that fictions are real, rather than to acknowledge that fictions as fictions. This is old age practicality.

Hmm okay i think I get what you are saying. We agree rather than disagree.

Think so too 🥂

You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.