The value amassed (integration) in the first part of Ray Dalio’s long-term debt cycle.

Then all the poor Mupperts can start filling up the hole (pension funds, income loss, etc) again in the second part and the whole cycle can recommence.

Quite a brilliant milking strategy and certain to keep the milk muppets powerless. Nothing short of slavery but in sublime disguise.

Take the principle of interest rates out of society (forbid it - ending the role of the FED) and the whole rationale underpinning this milking model ends. (It would also help create a far more sustainable society.) But that discussion is for another day.