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Because historically slavery has always been looked down on. Today itās just a different form of slavery. Debt slavery. Get a massive student loan then work your ass off to pay it off for most of your life. Still better quality of life and everyday freedom than lots of places in the world.
Better than which places, exactly? Better than the places where student and medical debt aren't things? Better than places where mortality rate isn't increasing? Or places where old folks can retire? Places where families can afford a home? The American dream is available to fewer and fewer people every year, despite the vast amount of resources that we take from other countries at criminally low rates.
And can you name other countries where slavery was as codified, widespread, generational, and still has the scars on the country as the US?
Lookup countries using the CFA monetary system. The French never stopped colonizing and enslaving Africans. Itās just under a different system.
USG does the same shit via the IMF and USTs. But thatās a byproduct of governments, not people. Reference previous notes for my feelings about government.
Your grief is not with me. Not with other people that love America and being American. Itās with the corrupt governments of the world that make the laws and regulations keeping archaic systems in place to squeeze wealth from the āhave notsā and trickle it back to the āhavesā.
Got any actionable steps?
Btw, youāre free to leave if there are better places. No one keeps you in America. Lots of happy ex-pats elsewhere.
Lol. And leave the most powerful country to the right wing that already almost has complete control? A lot of poor people count on communists like me to represent them in housing court and shit. I can't just bail on them. This is my fucking country too.
There is no right and left. There is the bankers and their politician puppets. And then there are the rest of us.
Left and right can get fucked. I want Liberty. Not oligarchy.
Who do you need liberty from? How do you make sure that everyone has it?
Anyone trying to stop you from peaceful voluntarily interacting with other people.
Everyone wonāt have Liberty. Life isnāt fair and no amount of force can change that. But making a difference for large swaths of people starts with changing our money. By making sure control of the money isnāt gate-kept by the few. Make money understandable and open to anyone instead of opaque and restricted. Most importantly, make sure money canāt be debased so hard working people can save the value they create for others without it being inflated away.
Why is housing so unaffordable? I think a lot of it has to do with the rent seekers at the top using lies and deception to manipulate money so basic needs become evermore unattainable by your average person.
Why do we see such wealth disparity? The ever widening gap of rich and poor is due to financial games where only the privileged and connected get access to dollars when wanting to buy hard goods. Those goods accrue to the top, forcing everyone else to pay rent if they want access to things. Who controls most real estate? Most medicine? Itās not the people, itās the bankers and their politicians that bloviate about āmaking changeā when the only change is the amount of value they leech from the rest of the world.
This is why I'm a communist now. Merely changing money isn't enough. Besides fiat currency is fine, as long as it's used properly.l, for the People.
Merely changing the base layer of society isnāt enough?
Sure.
Keep helping people how you see fit. Human action is how economies work.
Money isn't the base layer of society. Labor is, as you point out. Money is made up so we know where to allocate labor, but monopolies and wealth disparities in that market cause the labor allocation to be skewed in favor of whatever the rich want, perpetuating an anti-democratic downward spiral into what Russia has today and where we're headed.
Whatās the common unit of measurement for labor? How do I translate an hour of my labor into and hour of your labor? Labor is indeed at the core of society but we donāt trade labor for labor. We trade labor for money. I canāt witness your labor easily to understand itās value. Money is how society scales up.
Socialists and Commies get annoyed at this because they always overestimate the value of their own labour.
Afterall, they have PhDās in gender studies, they should be making the same as a PhD in Neuroscience or Aeronautical Engineering!
They completely ignore the market for their worthless skillsets and simultaneously devalue the market for the others.
The same logic is why they misunderstand how destructive minimum wage laws are. The market decides value - Iām not hiring someone at minimum wage for basic work that needs to be done, Iāll just bundle it in to my regulated min wage employees jobs instead of hiring someone who could do it cheaper and gain skills in the process.
1 unit of labour =/= 1 unit of someone elseās labour. This should be fucking obvious to anyone with a brain.
Yes. And money that isn't related to labor is nonsense.
If there is labor that needs to be done and money is being held hostage by the wealthy, something needs to change. Changing money doesn't change the capitalistic impulse for accumulation. BTC mining is controlled by less than ten people. At least be an ETH enthusiast, dude.
We know what needs to happen to save the world and improve the life of everyone in society, but rich folks won't let it happen. Crypto isn't the answer
It's been ruined by libertarians, just like America.