Lexo arrived at his home after flying all the way there.
“Return!”
Lexo reached for his keys in his pocket and opened the door. He entered his house and heard Genzo and Uncle James talking in the living room. Instead of greeting Lexo stood against the wall before the living room entrance and eavesdropped into their conversation. Genzo sat next to James on the couch while the tv was showing the Bloomberg channel in the background and asked.
“Hey Uncle I’ve been thinking… Isn’t this economic system we’re leaving absolute bullshit?”
“Interesting analisis Genzo, could you please elaborate?” James said, putting hand on his chin.
“Well… It's just that it all doesn’t make sense. Who thought it was a good idea to destroy trees and mine for copper in order to create money, just to mine even more copper and destroy more trees for personal use. Why is the dollar stock value 93.46 and not 94.90. Every year there is Inflation and they say it's based on production costs, raw material, wages and demand but....” Genzo rambled.
James halted Genzo.
“Okay, but what are you trying to say with that?” James questioned.
“I am saying that these prize raises all the economic problems are based on nothing.” Genzo answered.
“Hmmm give me an example.” James replied.
“Okay let's say I am famous and I am holding a press conference and they are interviewing me. I see a beverage and go: ew I don’t want to drink this garbage, then out of nowhere the company value goes down by 1 BILLION DOLLARS, like which idiot behind a computer decided that what that random famous person said on tv is worth 1 BILLION. And I don’t believe that a random supercomputer can calculate that based on the trust of the entire world in split seconds.” Genzo explained.
“Interesting indeed, but you know that our economy is here for a reason. Humanity needs a reason to live, to fight and enjoy. I know this system has a lot of crap to it, but it's pretty much the best we can come up with right now, because just trading items isn't going to bring us anywhere.” James reasoned.
“Hm.. okay, another thing that bothers me is the whole economic crisis story. Let’s say we in America have another crisis and usually when one country has financial problems, the rest follows as seen in 2008, so in theory if they wanted to prevent that, why didn’t they just freeze currency value and print out the money so that everyone could recover from that crisis without the years of suffering.” Genzo theorized.
“Okay I see what you are trying to say, so I will explain something to you. It's indeed true that the economy is obviously man made and that the currency value is based on belief. If we all suddenly don’t trust our Dollar anymore the value of it will skyrocket down by tremendous amounts making the entire country go bankrupt. People don’t like to admit it, but the economy is in fact a form of fantasy, because it never existed before a couple thousands of years ago. We created it and we believe in it as if it is our god, since the belief in the man up in the sky is slowly decreasing. The point is that if I was for example the dictator of the world and I said that inflation will be removed. It will simply cease to exist. The economy is a system that can be changed or be manipulated by anyone, but only if the majority of humanity stands behind it. It doesn’t make sense but in theory we can reshape the economy in any way, shape or from.” James explained.
“I guess I kinda had it right.” Genzo commented.
“It's not bad to think and ask questions about the world around us. It makes you leave that bubble that we as western society are trapped within. Listen Genzo, stop looking for a job. The problem you are facing is that my little brother never teached you how things are as he is only interested in his own career, plus school only teaches you to acquire skills that are of necessity for the employer, but that way you will never become rich. Join my trading company and I will teach you the skills you need in order to become a man with money and influence!”
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“Will you take my offer?” James asked.
“You know what, sure why not!” Genzo accepted.
“Alright, we will start next week.” James told him.
After that they shook hands.
“Now to answer your question to the crisis dilemma. It would be a smart idea, but it's not in the interest of the ones that currently hold power. That’s why it would and will never happen.” James answered.
“I wonder why?” Genzo questioned.
“That’s for me to know and for you to find out. Oh another thing you better stop being an ass against me now that I helped you out.” James pointed at him.
“Sorry that will never change, old man.” Genzo said.
“Who are you calling old man! I am 41 damn it!”
Well it's time to greet them.
Lexo walked into the living room.
Uncle James noticed him.
“Hey Lexo, how was your day?!” James asked.
“Good I guess.” Lexo replied.
“Bro, since when do you come home this late.. Don’t tell you scored a girl before me, like no way in hell that could happen to a loser like you.” Genzo dissed.
“Hey!... I was out with friends.” Lexo replied.
“Wait.. you have friends now or is it those other 2 losers you barely hang out with?” Gezo asked.
“No other people.”
Genzo stood up and started to clap.
“Well done shrimp! You can make friends like normal people now!”
Well it didn’t exactly go in a normal manner, but I can’t believe he just complimented me. It's as if that punch messed up his brain or something hahaha.
“Thanks I guess.”
“Anyways Lexo I have been wondering, what are you going to study after highschool?” James asked.
“To be honest Uncle.. I have no idea.” Lexo answered.
“Hey McDonalds always has a place for you.” Genzo joked around.
James held his hand before Genzo while he gave a why look.
“Well I am not going to ask what you like or not, you just have to figure that out yourself. It's not bad to not know, but life is about making choices and whether you like it or not, one day you will have to make one too. Just see this as advice.” James advised.
“Okay I’ll remember this.” Lexo said.
“Oh and today we will have my homemade trash pizza. I will tell you when I’m done.” James said.
“Okay I’ll be upstairs.”
Lexo walked up to the 2nd floor and entered his room where he put his bag on the ground and went to sit behind his computer.
Now I have time to think about all that.
The way Uncle spoke about dad…. Well I don’t see him a lot and when I do he only seems to talk about the usual casual topics, but never as deep as Uncle.
Speaking of which, it's been a year since Mom divorced him, I wonder how things are going for her. Hm.. Uncle might know more about that, so I could ask him next time.
And when he asked me what I wanted to do…. That was kinda scary, the thing is that I never really identified with any sort of sector. I seriously need to look at that next since I don’t if a business, accounting or economics study is something for me.
Since my family is all about the financial and economical stuff, they only seem to speak in that form. But Uncle James did say something interesting. If the economy is a system that can be changed if only enough people back it up, then could it be that the reality we live in is also a concept that can be changed if people wanted to?
And even if I was right how exactly do you change reality, because just like that hobo and Felix said. We can’t change reality in a literal sense and I don't think I can convince the entire world to change their ways. Something is just off about this whole Reality Breakers deal and I can’t seem to figure out what it is…. Ugh!
You know what time to do homework, since I am known to do that nowadays haha...
Someone shouted downstairs.
“Lexo, my garbage pizza is ready!”
Just as I am about to make my homework talk about perfect timing!
“I’ll be right there!” Lexo shouted as left his room and closed behind him.