partofthevoice

I hope an economist can come in here and correct me if I got anything wrong. This is my personal take.

I sort of understand money as a manner of storage. It a battery for potential influence of other humans. Like a note with I.O.U depicting that someone’s future behavior is to provide some good or service to you, that note is a battery for influencing someone’s behavior (the behavior of providing a good or service). Money is just slightly more abstract than an I.O.U because money isn’t tethered to a specific provider, recipient, good or service. Yet, the logic remains. This really stands out when you consider people work for money, and negative money (debt) incentives us to perform legal means of reducing that debt.

We’ve as a society all but accepted this use of money, being a battery to influence us, by manner of participating in the game it invokes for us. We work to earn money, and we use that money to buy that which we need or want, to pay debt, to invest (depending on how much you you can spare)... Goods and services are provided by others in aim of receiving the money we worked for. On the macro scale, we refer to these exchanges as the economy. Both: goods and services readying themselves for the potential to receive money, as well as the exchange itself when transactions are made. Each are conduits for money to flow, and this tool (the battery) benefits us humans in many ways.

But the manner in which we’ve structured and regulated this process has yielded a system which is vulnerable. Our manner has created a class divide where the successful may use their success to hoard and prevent others from obtaining the same success. We’ve fallen into yet another type of society where hierarchy exists, alike slave-master. Now, less obviously, we are in a society where the rich control the poor. The rich influence legislation to control the incentives of the poor, by legal coercion (e.g., non-competes, hiding free tax filing options, zoning laws inflating housing costs, …), all the while influencing legislation to provide corporate loopholes and tax cuts. Meanwhile there is social coercion, by means of controlling mass media, social media, market media, and entertainment media — giving the minority of the rich a megaphone with few alternative voices to compete at such scale.

This cycle is one which can become self-perpetuating. As the rich become richer, they have more power to make themselves yet richer. The class divide widens. The poorer are stripped evermore of their voice in the matter. Yet, let’s remember where this economy thing began — it was a tool for our exchange. Our tool, now exploited for their gain.

So when you say they stole $125 from everyone, I agree with you. We are on the exact same page there. The working class is practically voiceless, powerless, and in many cases coerced to fight against their best interests — and this is why they are scared of democratic socialism. They don’t want the working class to control the means of production, because that stands to balance the scales here. Balanced scales, by virtue of where we are now, means a deep contest of control which the rich are so privileged to have freely now.

This one? https://youtu.be/mkXIWPmdfdo

Edit: no wait, this one? https://youtu.be/6MTTug24lpE

Edit2: Ohhh, no, it’s gotta be this one right? https://x.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/727604522156228608

Accidents can happen even before you eat. Preparing the chicken might mean contaminating your hands, a knife, a cutting board, and your countertop if there’s even a small amount of water flowing out the meat. You put all that in the sink, wash your hands, but… by washing your hands, were you careful enough not to contaminate the water valve on your kitchen sink? How about the soap dispenser? Did you make certain nobody touched the countertop before you sanitized it? There’s a lot of ways something can go wrong when working with dangerous substances.

Funny enough, I do not fear communism out of spite for the Republicans. It’s a system of government, and they’re who demonized it. I’m willing to try and remove that bias.

I think there’s evidence that they were business partners in the trafficking operation. Trump owned children beauty pageants, he had girl servants at one of his resorts, reports of some of those girls winding up with Epstein… I bet there are financial transactions proving it.

I would like to look into this. Do you have a name?

I really don’t want to peddle conspiracy, but if we’re talking speculation… I’ve heard speculation that human clones could be used for organ harvesting to extend the life of someone. Specifically, this theory was floating around when someone overheard Putin and Xi talking about living to 150 years old (or something to that effect).

Edit: here’s an article about the 150yo comment: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr70rvrd41ko

I don’t know. I’m autistic, and my most recent therapist mentioned to me that I am probably the best person at hiding it he’s ever seen. I’ve had sales jobs, jobs that required I be a good persuader with stakeholders, and I’ve had a deep longing to make authentic relationships with people.

But, yeah I’m still autistic. After a long conversation, I need a nap.

Thanks for this added perspective. I’m not surprised, but I did not know nor did it even occur to me that some of them may be paid shills.