Investing into crisis — like collecting the silverware in the sinking Titanic

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readMay 6, 2020

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I am not an economist, financial advisor so I don’t know how much it is worthwhile investing into crisis, calculating on benefiting of the general blow affecting others. But I know that many of the world’s wealthiest people gained their fortune by speculation, investing in crisis, betting on the collapse, misery of others, even facilitating such collapse with different manipulations.

Isn’t this something evil?!

I don’t think we can call it evil, since they just used their inherently self-serving, egocentric, exploitative program - we are all born with - in their own way, whole others exploit, use others in different ways.

As Humanity is heading towards another great crisis - many think will be in part with the Great Depression - I am sure there are those who hope to gain additional billions, trillions as a result.

But there is something different this time.

We have evolved into a globally integrated, interdependent world, we are all locked into the same global ship which is now sinking. This I am not sure how it will help these speculators, investors to steal the money of others when we all sink and drown.

They are similar to those in the Titanic who tried to collect the silverware while the boat was already capsizing. Even if they keep counting their useless billions, trillions in their bunkers it won’t help them much.

We have to learn a completely new way of life that our new global, integral evolutionary conditions demands from us. In this global, integral system - where everything we do immediately influences the whole system and which influence returns to us like a boomerang with multiple force — we either succeed, survive together, or we will perish.

And this is not according to political ideology, religion, morality or mysticism, but according Nature’s laws of integration.

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Zsolt Hermann
Zsolt Hermann

Written by Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.

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