Well, what can you do? Educate as many people about the nature of the
status quo and viable alternatives: cooperative monetary systems which
allow for a #basicincome for every person and thus the transcendence of
systemic poverty, fear, materialism, our ego-centric culture, the
work-for-income paradigm, etc., etc. ... Tell people that not having a
job is still more productive and way less harmful for our society and
biosphere than 95% of all existing jobs which only serve the purpose of
prolonging the status quo. Or if you are very lucky and privileged
create your own post-scarcity/post-materialism community if you can?
I have tried to do that for 15+ years and had little success. The rate
of radicalization is way greater than the rate at which you can
"generate" people who really understand what's going on. Just look at
the demonstrations all around the world. They all still completely miss
the point. How can you overcome a system which nobody understands and
which has been literally killing billions of people over the course of
thousands of years? I have no idea and that's why AGI might be our only
hope ...
On 03/03/2019 20:45, Steve Richfield wrote:
Justcamel,
So, what do you suggest doing about it? It seems necessary to believe
there is an advantage to working to bother doing anything. Doing
anything involved borrowing against the future, even if only eating
wampum you have gathered and stored to feed you for the day.
What are the alternatives?
Steve
On Sun, Mar 3, 2019, 11:27 justcamel <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
All that matters is that compound interest creates artificial
scarcity
by _ALWAYS_ demanding more money back than ever was created. This
process is destroying us, our minds and sanity, our society,
culture and
biosphere ... regardless of what you think it was designed for.
And by the way ... if you read the internal papers of the central
bankers who implemented the current monetary system (and it really
doesn't matter ... any monetary system based on positive interest is
just as criminal and destructive and it's been that way for 5000+
years
... just read "Debt - the first 5000 years." by David Graeber) you
will
see quite clearly that they were fully aware of most of the
implications
the system would have on society. They probably didn't understand the
whole #bullshitjobs, anti-economy and climate change implications
back
then ... but their incentive was highly and purely criminal.
It was designed to extract all wealth from the vast majority of the
population ... either directly via debt, via debt slavery, via
dispossession of individuals (foreclosures, etc.) or even entire
countries ... like it's happening all around the world ...
It was designed to systematically destroy the vast majority of
people in
a slow and steady fashion that would not spark widespread resistance.
You only want to destroy the most "unfortunate" lowest 1-2% at any
given
time ... while keeping the rest of the population under control via
systemic fear. There are even papers of central bankers which
elaborate
how a "healthy" population of homeless people serves the key
purpose of
instilling enough systemic fear to keep the rest paralysed ...
"The few who could understand the system will either be so
interested in
its profits, or so dependent on its favours, that there will be no
opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great
body of
the people mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous
advantage
that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without
complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is
inimical to their interests." -- John Sherman, Rothschild ... and
that
quote is the most harmless of them all.
That's what our monetary system was designed for ...
On 03/03/2019 19:50, Costi Dumitrescu wrote:
> The money system is designed so
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