“People have go back to work.”
“Oh. Why is that?”
“Else they’ll starve.”
“Oh. Then give them food.”
“We can’t.”
“Because we have no food?”
“Because they won’t be able to pay.”
“Oh. Just give them money”
“Not if they didn’t WORK for it!”
“But—“
“THE SHUTDOWN WOULD BE DEADLY OK?”
“Oh. Why is that?”
“Else they’ll starve.”
“Oh. Then give them food.”
“We can’t.”
“Because we have no food?”
“Because they won’t be able to pay.”
“Oh. Just give them money”
“Not if they didn’t WORK for it!”
“But—“
“THE SHUTDOWN WOULD BE DEADLY OK?”
Oh. Then pay the farmer.
We can honestly do this all day.
We can honestly do this all day.
Money is a very useful imaginary concept we invented. It’s a tool. It exists to help us. We don’t exist to help it.
Once you fix this truth in your mind a lot of modern arguments reveal themselves as the nonsense they are.
Yes. Using our very useful and flexible tool, money, to paper over the bad effects of our dumb trade war.
We are currently burying food in mass quantities during a time of severe food insecurity and it’s not because of socialism.
Correct, other than the words “can’t” and “must.”
The problem is that we’ve privatized all effective means of distribution (though the USPO puts the lie to the necessity of this) and now the government refuses to subsidize businesses to operate as is obviously needed.
Exactly right. What makes money a useful tool is that it’s very flexible.
What’s happened is it’s been made unnaturally inflexible in order to always prioritize profit over lives—a perversion of the tool.
What’s happened is it’s been made unnaturally inflexible in order to always prioritize profit over lives—a perversion of the tool.
Money is a very useful imaginary concept we invented. It’s a tool. It exists to help us. We don’t exist to help it.
Repeat:
Money is a very useful imaginary concept we invented. It’s a tool. It exists to help us. We don’t exist to help it.
Repeat:
Money is a very useful imaginary concept we invented. It’s a tool. It exists to help us. We don’t exist to help it.
Yes. Almost as if one is contemplating the root of all evil.
