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What is the economy anyway ??
starry-eyed pirate:
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The economy is my enemy. It enables a few to control the many. It allows the wealthy few to usurp the natural rights of the many to the land.
If we learned anything from cybernetics didn't we learn that we're all in group and the best thing that anybody can do is to cop out ?!?!
What is the economy anyway ??? It's a form of slavery. The people should cry for their land rights not their jobs.
And I aint thankin any vets for my brainwash-freedom neither.
Peace.
starry-eyed pirate:
Once the people stop working the land for subsistence they become dependent on the group. Oil and energy companies own almost everyone. Cop out.
Trouble is, s'already too late. There's too many people to go back to the land now, even though sometime or another it seems to me that'll have to be the way.
The industrial revolution wasn't nothin good for us. People settled for the 40 hour week when they should have completely demolished the beast. Each family should be runnin they're own homestead, not demanding jobs and education.
How can we now redistribute the land ?? So that each adult has an acre of arable land to farm/work ?? That kind of connection to the Earth is essential in balancing the population. When people grow their own food and hunt or raise their own meat a sustainable balance is reached.
Copping out of the economy is hard to do, but the less one participates, thinks I, the better.
Better for the Earth, better for the environment, better for everyone...
Of course we'd still need doctors and scientists and such, so ... it aint easy... :roflmao:
But 2 of my friends were talking the other mornin, about this very subject, when one says to the other, "yeah, but I had a heart attack and wouldn't be alive if everybody were just homesteaders and there weren't any doctors."
Came the response, "you wouldn't ever have had the heart attack because you wouldn't be living this unhealthy lifestyle, where you sit at a computer most of the day and eat crappy frozen food from someplace your not sure of for dinner in front of the television which is constantly indoctrinating you into the money cult to keep you in servitude. You wouldn't have had it if you'd a been workin the land every day and living a good wholesome life, eating good healthy food that you grew yourself."
To which the other friend agreed. Cause he lives alone and eats too much fast food and smokes commercial cigarettes and stuff, or he did anyway, before the heart attack.
So of course, this doesn't eliminate the need for doctors and scientists. But it does begin to create a healthier idea of how to live well on the Earth. The more homesteading the better, says I. Let the economy crumble, it's a slave system anyway and if you were in one of the brainwash programs you should know that by your own experience.
O0 :soapbox:
Namaste
none-ya:
Ask all the 60 somethings that were teenagers during the summer of love ('67) That tried sharing,communal living,going back to the land and all. It's a utopian pipe dream. People are just naturally greedy. That's why the cult of money and sucess is such a natural draw.Even for the "do-gooders",the more you,have the more you can give away.But sometimes you just have to throw up the white flag during the "monopoly" game and redistribute the property and money or the game's
over.Think about what that would lead to in real life.........
or maybe not
Ursus:
--- Quote from: "none-ya" ---Ask all the 60 somethings that were teenagers during the summer of love ('67) That tried sharing,communal living,going back to the land and all. It's a utopian pipe dream. People are just naturally greedy. That's why the cult of money and sucess is such a natural draw.Even for the "do-gooders",the more you,have the more you can give away.But sometimes you just have to throw up the white flag during the "monopoly" game and redistribute the property and money or the game's
over.Think about what that would lead to in real life.........
or maybe not
--- End quote ---
And what a Monopoly game it is!
This excerpt is from ~4-5 years ago, but probably pretty much still holds:
The World Distribution of Household Wealth:
Pioneering Study Shows Richest Two Percent Own Half World Wealth
Press Release
World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University
5 dec 2006
The richest 2% of adults in the world own more than half of global household wealth according to a path-breaking study released today by the Helsinki-based World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER).
The most comprehensive study of personal wealth ever undertaken also reports that the richest 1% of adults alone owned 40% of global assets in the year 2000, and that the richest 10% of adults accounted for 85% of the world total. In contrast, the bottom half of the world adult population owned barely 1% of global wealth...[/list]
Full paper as PDF (1,167kb)
none-ya:
Us bottom halfers better not land on boardwalk. I wouldn't be surprised to see a return of debters prisons. What better way to make more slaves?
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