With bloggers blogging about blogs, tweeple tweeting about Twitter, bankers paying themselves bonuses and businesses going bust, the world seems to be a very strange place.

What's going on?

OK, so I understand the banks were too big to lose, so the politicians had to use our money to bail out those who put the world economy at risk. 

Unfortunately we didn't see anybody jailed, even though some must have been responsible for criminal negligence, at least, and more likely, criminal intent.

They seem to be carrying on just where they left off, except instead of loading people who couldn't pay with debt, they're now refusing credit to good businesses that can.

Apart from poor old Bernie, that is, but he did get away with his pyramid scheme for 19 years.  Maybe those bankers are running their own pyramid schemes and got saved by being able to hide their misdeeds under the credit crunch.  Perhaps they'll get caught out the next time we have to save those too big to fail.

Maybe the entire banking system is one giant pyramid scheme, and always has been :-(

And maybe the social media world is following the example?  That's the only explanation I can come up with.  The gurus might have created this giant concept and are now charging people to help them extend it.  "Read my book, use my software, make money selling them on to your friends."

As long as there are more new disciples than there are people discovering the truth, they can all do a "Bernie" and keep the good times rolling.

Meanwhile proper businesses that do real things for real people are going bust.  There seems to be no future in building, supplying, servicing - adding real value.

Maybe the new model will see us join the bankers pyramid scheme and make money pushing credit to the next bunch of unfortunates, using lessons learned in the social media fraud to find new ways to part fools from their money.

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