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Re: Mumbo Jumbo
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Monday, June 29 2009, 21:27:46 (CEST)
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I think it's a game still....intended to allow bankers and other financiers to rake up as much money as they can...regardless of gold or silver or wampum beads.

We're made to believe that money will fluctuate wildly unlessw e toe the line..and it will, but it does anyway...the whole thing is controlled anyway...none of it is really free-market.

It's all fake Monopoly money...but sure, the money-people still want all of it they can get...but the social cost will eventually become too great.

What kind of sense does it make to say, "we have no money for infant health care...so the babies will have to die"? What do they mean "no money"? We have people...we have material....we have talent and we have pressing needs.

When the banks and financiers needed bailing out, with funny-money....the government didn't hesitate....it's only when it comes to alleviating human needs that we all of a sudden "have no money", or worry about what this will do the value of paper money, backed by only faith and nothing more..and that's primarily because a safe and contended populace gets rowdy and harder to control. People on the edge of their seats, constantly worried and frazzled are more docile...until they break.

It comes down seeing your people as a means to en end, or their welfare as an end in itself.

We can put people to work in every conceivable venue to fix everything that is falling apart, including the environment....we would only benefit from it.

What do most people to with their money anyway? They pay for food, housing, clothing, school, gas....in other words everything one needs to LIVE. It's meaningless and worse to say "we have no money to pay you to live"...what's supposed to be the alternative?

Capitalism was fine for while....but it comes down to using up all resources to make money...this is supposed to be the way we create "jobs"....but it's a dead end eventually...maybe not now but in a hundred or so years. Part of making money is cutting back on salaries...so what do we gain in the end? We have a lot of people making things they increasingly can't afford to buy, which then costs them their jobs....so where are we?

We open up foreign markets because we don;t want to pay our own workers enough to afford the stuff they make...so we look for markets for the stuff elsewhere...even if we make less money selling to poorer countries, we still sell enough to make it worthwhile in the long run...because one of the last ways left to make more money is cut back salaries and benefits for American workers.



It will take a long time and much more hardship before people start asking these questions....we have the resources and humans and needs to create a much better world...it's just that there won't be the same scope and opportunity in it for fat cats to get fatter and fatter.....and their one sure-fire way to get fatter and fatter is if the rest of us get leaner and leaner.

Money is a meaningless toy in the modern era.



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