feevers said:

Sometimes I think of money as food, as it more or less is today.

Those with millions/billions have warehouses full of food, far more than they or their family/friends would need in a lifetime, sitting untouched while many outside the warehouses are starving.

Can add a whole bunch of societal complexity to it, but morally that's what it comes down to.

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Asante said:

Discuss.

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Asante said:

I'm letting the topic flesh itself out, whichever direction it chooses to take.

If I give it a direction of my own, people are likely to agree or disagree based on that direction or its origin.

Instead, I'm letting the forum decrypt and interpret it.

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SARAtonin said:

I inherited all my money from my parents, and them their parents before, and them those before them, I’m sure that money goes back to the slave trade or some horrible grotesque shit like that even before. But that all happened centuries ago, hardly see how I’m involved.

Late stage capitalism is fucked up, broken, and a loaded gun pointed at the head of the planet.
But if the poor, uneducated masses of this plant want to keep painting communism, the boogie man, not much I can do.
I like to think thing are changing, wheels are certainly spinning, just can’t tell if the wheels are hitched to anything.

What I can say, is it becomes very tiring constantly getting shat on by people for advocating something that would help them out a hell of a lot more than it would me.
If they want to let them and their own live in squalor, more and more it seems like I should leave them to their own devices.

It’s just frustrating as fuck to watch.

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feevers said:

Sometimes I think of money as food.

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Ulfrick said:

feevers said:

Sometimes I think of money as food.

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Yes, this, exactly... congratulations you have managed to grasp one of the fundamental concepts of our modern economic system.
Now I wonder why such basic concepts aren't commonly taught in public schools?

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Contemporary society, according to social and political scientists, is characterised by at least three fundamental directions:

1. increasing human interconnection through a network of relationships that is progressively covering the whole planet;
2. the pace and depth of the evolution of human ways of life determined by technological innovation represent an absolute novelty in human history;
3. the scale of anthropological and ecological transformation due to the interaction between evolutionary factors (social, cultural, economic, and technological) has no historical precedent.

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