12-27-2019, 02:23 AM
(12-26-2019, 10:53 PM)Amaterasu Solar Wrote: Money - in ANY form - including trade, barter, and work exchange along with what You have listed - creates poverty and privilege, promotes psychopaths to power, allows oppression, causes wage/debt slavery, and makes profiteering a "thing." It goes way beyond just being there to obtain "fleeting things."
No, money is just another thing, an inert, inanimate object. The LOVE of money - greed - is what causes all of those things. In order to change it, you'll have to change human nature and remove the greed motivation from everyone on Earth - including the "poor". Otherwise, those poor will be the next "psychopaths in charge".
Another powerful motivator, in addition to Greed, is Fear. Most powerful folks are powerful to begin with out of fear - fear that they will lose control of their own lives without the power to control other folks. Controlling husbands, controlling wives, and controlling people in general cling to that control out of fear for what their lives will be without absolute control over everyone else, just another face of insecurity. That's the same fear that motivates Socialists and manipulates them into needing control over everyone else.
May as well excise those emotions too while you're excising emotions from humanity... but will it still be humanity when you've accomplished that? Speaking as someone who intentionally suppresses emotion in himself, I'd have to think not.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’