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What if the Ferengi were in charge of our Economy?

Tyjos Azari

Tyjos Azari

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Had a Weird Dream last night that The Ferengi came and pretty much were so put off by the mismanagement of our Global Economy they decided to take over!

-It was pretty much Grand Negus Zek, Ishka, Rom,Quark, and Brunt.....and a few other of the ferengi that joined them......

But I wonder, how would they manage earth's economy?

Plus they're drooling over the fact that now they can change the hew-man's future by making earth a Ferengi planet! [if they decide we're worth the trouble of taking over fully]

-For some reason Obama called them in as "Financial advisors" in my dream...don't know why must be all the DS9 I've been watching as of late.

But still it's a good question!

What do you think it'd be like if the Ferengi were called in as "Financial Advisors" to clean up our economy?
 
How would Ferengism be any better than what we have now?

As an individual who values the commons, the environment and not paying to use the restroom I must reluctantly veto your idea.
 
LOL

Still That'd be funny to see Zek,Rom,Quark,and Brunt starting off the days trading at the Stock Market.
 
Add my fourth to "You beat me to it"!

We ARE the Ferengi.

I love them in DS9 -- part is the satire element; part is Shimmerman's performance. His delivery and the dialogue he gets to say always seem . . . real, compared to the comic book-ish Trek-y writing the normal folk get.

Great post what with Goldman Sachs' huge profit coupled with charges they created investments designed to fail!! The Grand Nagus couldn't do better.
 
In fact I think the Ferengi would probably hail those who made all the stuff happened as legends.

Quark: "Now if you really want to learn something, you should follow their footsteps....those Hew-mons really knew how to screw over their own economy....and those who did it made enormous profit...take that Donald Trump Guy....or even that Bill Gates Character."
 
The Ferengi ARE in charge of economy. They're 20th/21st Century capitalists. But there's some things we do that even they wouldn't do. Try Wiki-ing them for soem amazing differences between us and them.
 
Brilliant thread. From now on whenever I see a Conservative campaign poster I'll have "Vote Ferengi" on the brain.
 
Tyjos Azari said:
What do you think it'd be like if the Ferengi were called in as "Financial Advisors" to clean up our economy?
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I don't think the Ferengi really DO the "advisor" thing.
Sure, they might help us set up a system that is similar to their own, but their motive for doing so would always be to maximize their profits.

The good news is, they would rather have 10% of your money every year forever than 100% of your money right now, so they are more likely to set up a system that runs for a while before it crashes than one that crashes immediately. And, if they are getting 10% of your transactions, they want you to do more transactions, so it is actually to their advantage to grow your wealth. But never forget that they are not doing that in order to make you wealthier: their goal is always to produce more money for them.

It is better than a lot of the things that might happen, but not the best possible way to set things up.
 
The economy would be in a more stable shape, for the long term, but we'd all be lot more miserable.

But they'd never have built an economy on selling bad debts, cos nobody would buy such a thing...
 
I think I must be the only one here that thinks this wouldn't be a completely horrible idea.

I say this because the Ferengi wouldn't do it unless it profited them, and you can't make a profit on a wrecked economy. Their growth in income would be our growth in income imo.

But that said I'm more Ferengi leaning in my financial/Economic beliefs.
 
Sibo191 said:
I think I must be the only one here that thinks this wouldn't be a completely horrible idea.

I say this because the Ferengi wouldn't do it unless it profited them, and you can't make a profit on a wrecked economy. Their growth in income would be our growth in income imo.

But that said I'm more Ferengi leaning in my financial/Economic beliefs.
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Perfect decisions require perfect knowledge. Are you telling me Quark never made bad decisions or that he was risk adverse in his business dealings? He was constantly trying to smuggle arms shipments and ran a sizeable casino operation along with his bar.

I don't see the Ferengi avoiding derivitives and realestate speculation and I don't see them endorsing goverment regulation that would increase the transparency of such actions.
 
Xerxes1979 said:
Sibo191 said:
I think I must be the only one here that thinks this wouldn't be a completely horrible idea.

I say this because the Ferengi wouldn't do it unless it profited them, and you can't make a profit on a wrecked economy. Their growth in income would be our growth in income imo.

But that said I'm more Ferengi leaning in my financial/Economic beliefs.
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Perfect decisions require perfect knowledge. Are you telling me Quark never made bad decisions or that he was risk adverse in his business dealings? He was constantly trying to smuggle arms shipments and ran a sizeable casino operation along with his bar.

I don't see the Ferengi avoiding derivitives and realestate speculation and I don't see them endorsing goverment regulation that would increase the transparency of such actions.
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I never said it would be perfect, and I'm sure quark made plenty of bad decisions in his business, but risk s part of capitalism. It would be hard to argue that he didn't make a decent profit in his business ventures. The fact that he did more than run a bar is not very important to me, sometimes a business must expand (in quarks case into illegal ventures, at least by federation laws) to make a profit.

I have no problem with someone making money by any means.

The Meaning of my statement however is the Ferengi would not do such a thing without making a significant profit. If humans did not go along with their plans because for example they did not approve the methods then there would be a loss of profit and maybe capitol on the part of the Ferengi. Keep in mind the Ferengi are not in the business of genocide or occupation, ( bad for business perhaps?) so there would not be such grave risks to modern day humans.
 
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