• Tattorack@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Or more to the point; money is the problem. Currencies are useful tokens that make trade more convenient. But systems have been built around the simple concept of a trade token that a person can have power over others by just having a bigger number.

    But it’s just a number. Most of the time a number that doesn’t even represent anything real or physical. Just a number of a hypothetical thing(s) that has a certain hypothetical value because someone said so.

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      6 hours ago

      Money is not the problem. Money is being used to translate the value of the real resources that the Uber rich hold.

      They don’t hoard money. They hoard companies, houses, stocks, bonds, debt.

      When you work to create a surplus? It goes to them. When you pay your landlord? It goes to them. When you pay taxes? Believe it or not, it also goes to them through the form of interest debt.

      You gotta weed that shit out at the root. Tax wealth not work.