So. The key mechanism of economic development in recent decades has been the stimulation of private demand through emissions. The impetus to this mechanism was given in 1914, when the US Federal Reserve System started working and for the first time in history, control over the issue income was received not by the state (seigniorage), but by private structures (in our case banks).
Then, following the results of 1944, this mechanism went beyond the limits of the United States (through the decisions taken at the Bretton Woods Conference and through the institutions created at the time, primarily by the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO), and then, after 1991, he took over the world. Since 1981, after the beginning of "Reaganomics", this mechanism has become even stronger.
The problem is that this mechanism (the development of the economy due to the emission stimulation of demand) has ceased to work in recent years. Actually, it worked all the worse until 2008 and since 2008 has ceased to work at all. I will not go into the complexity of statistics now to prove that the world economy has not grown in recent years, we will consider this fact a reality. What is important is that for their development, separate industries somewhere and at the expense of something should receive a serious resource. Where and at the expense of whom?
Let's note, by the way, that the presence of growth even after 1981 (in the 70s everything was already falling, it is known) is controversial. In particular, the US GDP has since grown by about 40% less than the debt of end-users (households and states) has grown. So it is possible that this growth, in fact, the result of statistical tweaks and after the real onset of the crisis, this sad circumstance will come to the surface. But the main thing is not this.
The main thing is that the beneficiaries of the emission profit must show it. Somewhere she must inevitably get out. Indeed, official US statistics indicate that the share of the financial sector in the redistribution of profits, which amounted to no more than 5% before the Second World War, rose to 10% a few years after the Bretton Woods Conference. And by the beginning of the crisis of the 70s it had reached 25%. And after the beginning of "Reaganomics" the role of the financial sector grew even more and by 2008 it reached 70%. After the crisis of 2008, it fell to 40%, but then began to grow again.
And now let's dream up. If a certain group receives 70% of profits for many years, it gradually begins to control and 70% of all assets. That is, all the rest is 30%. And if even the economy then starts to fall, then their share will still be about 30% - which will simply be reduced in nominal terms. And now imagine that the economy is shrinking, as much as twice (that is, there are 50 instead of 100), but the share of the financial sector is reduced to the historical 5%. 5% of 50 is 2.5. That is, the share of all the others remains as much as 47.5. Or, otherwise, one and a half times more than in the previous version, when there were only 30!
Or otherwise. Even if the global economy falls twice as a result of the crisis (in reality, the US and Western Europe will fall by half, while the world economy will drop by 35 percent), but the financial sector should be limited, having taken away from them completely undeserved profit, then all other sectors of the economy will be able to profit for a long time simply by redistributing the share of assets that which is owned by the financiers (bankers).
The problem is that until recently it was absolutely impossible to do it. Since all economic activities are in the networks of the Bretton Woods institutions, banks, rating agencies, audit and consulting companies, business forecasting systems, demand stimulation systems and so on. All these organizations are closely monitoring to ensure that financiers get "own" share of the profits, the rest have to fight for leftovers.
So, all the charm of crypto mechanisms (from bitcoin to blockchain algorithms) is that it allows you to pull away from the Bretton Woods institutions and thereby get rid of the "tax" in favor of financiers which all people, companies and States have to pay. It is for this reason that all the supporters of the financial sector are actively struggling with them, but they can’t win.
If there was no impending crisis, it would be possible to come up with mechanisms by which financiers could share their "profit" with others, in order to reduce tensions. But the crisis will be - simply because so much debt has accumulated, that it is already impossible to refinance in a low-rate environment. Well, it's also impossible to raise the rate, because already existing debts will not be serviced.
And for this reason, the Bretton Woods system is doomed. And with it the mechanism of control over the increased share of profit from the part of financiers is doomed. And since an alternative mechanism, in the form of crypto technologies, already exists, you do not need to invent anything new. So to develop these technologies is not just necessary, but also very useful. Since the one who in this topic will be the first to succeed will receive the maximum share of those assets that the financial sector will have to abandon.
You here tell very serious stories, judging by all the economic crisis will happen very soon, I would like to see how the crypto-currencies will affect the future economy.