Discussion on Money

Let's argue the ideas friends, not insult the person. Every person has the same value, the same awareness looking out their eyes, even if their egos have all kinds of silliness. Don't alienate the person as you argue the ideas.

Mostly, those who argue for the existing system value people according to their worth in money, seeing that as a measure of their investment in production and 'superiority' to other people. The idea that someone who invests money to make money are taking more of a risk than the worker who actually produces the product is obviously silly. If the person who invests the money loses it, they simply become the worker, while if the worker loses their ability to produce, they and their family face homelessness enforced by police. That shows the foolishness of that evaluation of people.

The economic system came from the old idea that there are superior and inferior people, that the superior 'deserve' what they get, and the inferior 'deserve' what they get... that somehow it's built into Universe that there be superior and inferior and the inferior deserve only what the superior allow them to have. The paradigm is the old 'royalty' versus the 'commoner' idea, and the goal of all 'commoners', it is believed by the royalty, are to become the 'royalty', although being inferior, they cannot. It was inherent in the Constitution of the US, which is why so many 'founding fathers' didn't sign the Constitution. It's always been based upon the ancient 'right of conquest' where the person with the greatest talent and skill in fighting deserved the best, and everyone else deserved what the 'winners' allowed them to have. In money terms, it's that the superior person gets the most money, which they inherently 'deserve' while the inferior person gets the table scraps of the superior, and somehow this silliness is inherent in our nature and in Nature itself. How that happens, regardless of the morality or anything else, is not relevant to the 'superior' person, since only the result counts.

And it's basically stupid. It loses in the system the valuable talents and skills of the so called 'inferior', who the 'superior' disregards as only worth their table scraps. The only opinion that counts, in that system, is the opinions of the 'superior'. Basically, everyone but the 'superior' are just domesticated animals in the eyes of the 'superior', the 'winner'. It's called, in modern times, Social Darwinism.

Now that it's shown that the methods, attitudes, and opinions of the 'superiors' produce cruelty, deadly systems, and destruction of the environment, and kills off the poor although modern science has shown that as many geniuses come from the 'inferiors' as the 'superiors', and thus we lose the benefit of their brilliance, the 'superior' are still hellbent on keeping their ancient privileges and power, and have taught most people to accept their lower status by holding the 'superior' social status out as a carrot in the same way that the police and laws are the stick to motivate the 'inferior' to work harder for the crumbs from the superior's table. THAT is what the money system is, nothing more or less. The 'benefits' which the 'superiors' hold out to the 'inferiors', like TVs, Cars, and suchlike, even in the wealthy countries, are not produced by the superiors but by the use of technology, and it's technology that can make true wealth available to everyone and stop the destruction of the environment. The argument that the money system is necessary and good is only an argument that the superiors are using to keep their 'special' social status and perks.

The fact is, there are no superiors or inferiors. The whole paradigm is essentially suicidal, especially on the global scale considering it's destruction of the environment. If we don't realize that all people are truly equal on this planet, that all people have the same needs, that the old social systems and paradigms are too inherently limited in their scope to actually create a world worth living in for most people, then Humanity will die out from our own stupidity, and take most of the ecology with us.