Forget
about the 'lightness' of the following argument urging depositors to
save money. Not only shows that the banking cabal is completely
detached from the real world and the huge problems that the
middle-class is facing. It shows that the financial elite doesn't
understand that the typical, empty narratives of the neoliberal
orthodoxy are now
obsolete
and ineffective.
Make
coffee at home, bring your lunch to work, walk instead of taking a
cab. Three of the most common, boilerplate,
how-to-live-on-a-shoestring-budget recommendations that any number
of financial life lesson articles have spewed over the past 25
years. Your standard-issue finger-wagging tips, typically aimed at
recent college grads, sprinkled with a hearty dose of
welcome-to-the-real-world condescension.
It’s
also the type of thing you’d actually expect to find in a bank
pamphlet titled something catchy like Financial Advice for Young
People. So it comes as no surprise that yesterday, after a day of
messages around landing that first job and life after graduation,
Chase Bank’s Twitter account tweeted a How
Do You Do, Fellow Kids
version of this very sentiment:
“You:
why is my balance so low
Bank
account: make coffee at home
Bank
account: eat the food that’s already in the fridge
Bank
account: you don’t need a cab, it’s only three blocks
You:
I guess we’ll never know
Bank
account: seriously?”
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As
expected, Elizabeth Warren wouldn't let it go unanswered and
responded on Twitter:
.@Chase:
why aren’t customers saving money?
Taxpayers: we lost our
jobs/homes/savings but gave you a $25b bailout
Workers:
employers don’t pay living wages
Economists: rising costs
+ stagnant wages = 0 savings
Chase: guess we’ll never
know
Everyone: seriously?
#MoneyMotivation
pic.twitter.com/WcboMr5MCE
—
Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) April
29, 2019
And here
is another alternative version for your amusement:
“You:
why is my balance so low?
Bank
account: because the banksters have been bailed-out numerous times
with billions by their political puppets for the crises
they created at the expense of you and all the middle-class
taxpayers.
You:
seriously?
Bank
account: Yes, seriously!”
Fixed.
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