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\nThembi Mutch
\nPhoto by Luke Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Thembi Mutch<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

September 22, 2008<\/p>\n

Am I supposed to feel sad for a load of over paid (probably overweight) men and women who get bonuses in excess of $100,000 annually, who have been sacked because they haven’t done their job well?<\/p>\n

Am I supposed to feel sorry for people who, had they stuffed less of their wages up their noses, thought about whether they needed such absurd salaries, shopped less in corporate malls, and spread their wealth a little more equitably, may have actually supported local businesses and created a better world?<\/p>\n

Feel sad for them? No chance.<\/p>\n

I am being besieged, inundated with news of the global credit crunch, the disaster of falling stocks. I am, I imagine, supposed to feel awed, humbled, that ‘ancient’ Wall Street financial institutions are collapsing.<\/p>\n

It’s not making sense. Here’s why: In the last years of British Prime Minister, Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher, there were a series of strikes. In the media this was reported as we were being ‘crippled by strikes’ and the strikers (from many industries, the main ones being ship building and mining) were vilified as society wreckers, destroyers of all that we hold dear. As privatisation continued apace here in Britain (and still does) we were sold the con of the liberal free market. The only ‘baddies’ were unions who were price fixing by asking for a liveable minimum wage.<\/p>\n

So, now, when the liberal free market has so dramatically, pusillanimously failed, we are, strangely, not encouraged to vilify the city brokers responsible. No, in fact, very far from it. We are encouraged to believe that the only things at fault are vague concepts like an ‘overheated economy’ – not greedy people who made way, way too much money gambling on things that didn’t happen.<\/p>\n

We are not encouraged to question why the wage differential between those in industries like call centres or insurance, and those who run them, are the largest they have ever been. There are woefully few real industries here in Britain anyway, as Tony Blair effectively and efficiently turned Britain PLC into a place essential for all global trading. In place of skills like plumbing and cabinet making, people have the dubious and ignominious glory of listing ‘answering the phone’ on the their r\u00c3\u00a9sum\u00c3\u00a9s.<\/p>\n

Let’s be honest, Britain has become very good at making more money out of money, and that’s about the sum of it. Loads of people employed to shift money from one place to another, take their cut, and then, hopefully, buy it all back at a better price. Naked short selling they call it. My mum used to call that sort of thing ‘make-work.’ Precisely.<\/p>\n

In my first anthropology lesson we learnt about reciprocity, about how some people exchange yams for land, or in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea, use cowry shells for money. It was a novel idea, that money wasn’t real. It was symbolic. It bought time, or land, or brides, or the Papua New Guinean equivalent of a four-wheel-drive Land Cruiser (probably the latest zazzy canoe.)<\/p>\n

This was way before the various schemes existed in the West where you put your skills on a notice board and ‘swapped them’ with other people, circumventing the need for money and ‘the man’ altogether. (Mine would be gardening, playing scrabble and improving wayward horses\/teenagers: I’m in big demand). The idea that money is not really necessary changes everything, especially when it comes to gifts for younger relatives. They want the latest PlayStation. Instead, I offer to sit with them for four hours contemplating the vacuity of existence. Works every time. What a result!<\/p>\n

Last night I sat with three of my neighbours around my kitchen table. We discussed whether or not our mortgages were ‘protected’ during the current credit crisis. We have all technically ‘borrowed’ money from banks or building societies, which we are now repaying back. None of us own our properties outright. That money in some cases went into individual’s banks accounts, when we bought our houses. In most cases, it went to pay back the existing loan when the vendor sold, and reinvested back into a new property, and in turn the money became virtual again. And so we contributed to a cycle in which some of our ‘actual money’- that which we earned, was used as collateral for further money, that remains virtual. And then, behind the scenes, much of this money is lent, borrowed, gambled with against currencies, and invested in stocks and shares, which in turn fund derivatives and hedge funds, which in turn become numerous other forms of capital.<\/p>\n

Despite having an economics degree from a good university, I still struggle to view the current financial crisis as anything other than a rather glorified cowry shell exchange. Meanwhile, I remember living in Zanzibar last year- where I’ll be returning soon to do my PhD fieldwork- when the Kenyan election crises erupted. Over 900 people were shot. It was a train smash, and for a week literally everything shut down; banks, civil service, the airport, all freight ships leaving Mombassa with fuel. As a consequence, we in Zanzibar – which depends heavily on Kenya for imports from all over the world – had no electricity for several days. All transport on the island ground to a halt – there was literally no petrol on the island. The price of rice doubled overnight. Middle class friends of mine were suddenly eating only one meal a day.<\/p>\n

Now THAT was a collapsed economy. Did it make non-stop international news? Did it hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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