lemme tell you something, not everyone likes everything, ok but I'm a person, like all people who have interests that aren't necessarily all aligned.

I don't know how that means if we were all free to pick our careers and do somethings to contribute to our community that no one would do the boring jobs or the jobs that they don't respect.

yk what I would do? I would learn excel. you don't like spreadsheets and don't wanna do them? great! I do! don't want to spend eight hours meticulously sweeping a street? I would find it tiring but very satisfying!

yk what else? some people who just really want to talk and tell people about things they want and like? guess what? I want to hear about it. I am dying to hear about it. I want to sit and put your words directly in my ear holes so they touch my brain.

and another thing. if you're someone who did something without doing the research, for example, adopt a pet, buy a house, donate an organ, whatever, and you want someone to figure out what you should do? tell me. I wanna do that. it sounds tedious and like I'll have to do a lot of thinking and sitting still and that sounds really nice.

like I don't know why there's this idea that without some monetary reward people wouldn't do anything. yes they would. you just don't know different enough people and I feel like a lot of niche 'jobs' would come up in the forms of the ties we make within communities.

Humanity's Way Forward? Can humanity step into a new system?

Moneyed Society: The Current Grand Global Affliction

“For the love of money is the root of all evils, and some in their desire for it have strayed from the faith and have pierced themselves with many pains.” - 1 Timothy 6:10

War. Theft. Inflation. Bankruptcy. Unemployment. Poverty. Unjustified punishment. Corruption. Fraud. Shortage. Famine. Taxes. Death. Extinction. You are likely concerned about some, if not all, of these problems. They have continued for years – decades – centuries – millennia. The world has about ½ a billion underweight people despite having enough food to feed 11 billion people. Even the United States of America, one of the richest countries in the world per person, has over ½ a million homeless people despite having over 11 million vacant homes. People are not the only organisms suffering; over 1 million species are going extinct: doomed to be gone from our world at this rate. Something has gone horribly wrong. 

Indeed, it is only ONE thing: exchange, the establishment of debt through trade as measured by money. 

You see, when you need something in modern society, you usually must trade for it. If you cannot give that compensation in money, a desired object, or a promise thereof, you do not receive no matter how much you might need what you seek. In many cases, such as housing, health care, and highest education, prices tend to overwhelm consumers. Oddly enough, the need for money itself is a redundant feedback loop: you need money because your suppliers need money because THEIR suppliers need money and so on. There must be a reason for this insane flow.

When money or a promise to pay back is given to a modern business, that business has profits – also known as surplus value or proceeds – between the money/debt of what it got (or will get) from the consumer and what it gave (or will give) to its suppliers in order to provide/operate. Those proceeds are sometimes spent on building/investing in the physical assets (e.g. land, buildings, and machines) to produce more, but they can also be returned to the people who bought/financed the business. This is the core of capitalism, listed in the order of a Statement of Cash Flows. These financiers – also known as bourgeoisie or shareholders – buy businesses to create a mandate that the business must keep making proceeds to eventually give back to financiers as profit greater than what they put in. This means that every capitalist business tries to make as much profit as possible for the foreseeable future, getting the highest number of revenues from consumers minus expenses to suppliers possible. This habit makes businesses, consumers, and their suppliers disagree and create all kinds of conflict.

Think of a starving person. Unable or not allowed to reach a farm, they went to a marketplace and could not get food. Maybe natural events have caused a famine. Maybe the government has blocked that person’s racial or religious group from reaching food. Or maybe the very suppliers of food decided that the best way to maximize proceeds is to leave them out. Their prices have inflated so much that although people like the one in question are unable to afford the new prices, the consumers who do pay so much more that sales numbers remain much higher than the costs of production. Sad and desperate, the starving people seek any way to fix this problem. They might harass, steal, or even kill to stay alive and well. Because they feel insecure, they listen to any loud speaker who strongly casts blame: “That leader is at fault!” “That cultural group is at fault!” “That nation is at fault!” Hatred booms, and desperate people fight other people who might also suffer from all this.

When businesses operate for as much profit as possible, they could not care less about the resulting wreckage. We are threatened by the war industry that gets payments from hatred-fueled governments over and over again. The largest of these nations not only blow-up other countries, leaving doomed wastelands, but also stockpile nuclear weapons can do vastly more damage if unleashed. Oil, coal, and natural gas corporations also demolish the earth by yanking out valuable fossil fuels. Then, ecosystems full of animals and plants in those extraction sites collapse, consumers keep using old modes of commuting and warmth instead of better, healthier alternatives, and worst of all: the burned fuels make sun rays keep heating our planet in the chaotic, climate-changing greenhouse effect. Pollution in general is more lucrative from continued sales than recycling and resource conservation, so it continues. 2 industries of greedy businesses alone crumble our world and endanger us so much that we might all die off in a century if some miracle of biology happens.

Of course, smaller problems come from our capitalist economy based on increasing revenues and/or reducing expenses. Wages and salaries lack raises because they are not the ruling investors’ bottom line. People avoid low-paying jobs because inflated costs of housing and health care leave them bankrupt otherwise. Commuting distances stretch so much, cars fill entire streets because their sales make more money than bus tickets, train fares, and government spending. Work and driving take entire days because companies avoid paying additional full salaries. And politicians worsen or barely reduce these problems because the rich people behind all this fund their election campaigns. There is only one way to end this global cancer, and that is by everyone stopping proceeds, relieving debt, and going moneyless for good.

Contributors of the Moneyless Society (MoSo) advocacy charity have written other essays decrying the different kinds of pain debt dumps on us. MoSo Founder Matthew Holten has also written a book explaining the systems theory behind the failures of the monetary system and structures that can replace it after it is repealed by a critical mass of people. Dedicated members Amanda Smith and Zachary Marlow engage brilliant people in MoSo podcast episodes and a documentary in progress as of Winter 2023. I recommend you learn from as many of these as you wish.

I think about this quote often

Found on Facebook (Moneyless Society)

Love a time travel episode but I wish they were slightly more fumble-y with the money. Like really act like you’ve never seen this shit before. Hold it up to the light, drop some and go running after it. It’s Canadian money too so it’s extra slippery.

i just need authoritarians to stop thinking they understand hobie

The Best Organizations Protect The New World Order

Copiosis turns agencies in our justice system into the best versions of themselves, which keeps despots from overthrowing it. Here's how.

Photo by Fred Moon on Unsplash Law enforcement agencies worldwide are pretty good at crime fighting. They’re especially good at foiling plots involving treason. Or those involving mass violence. Especially after 9/11. We’re near the end of our series showing why taking over Copiosis is extremely difficult. In this installment, we’re looking at “super-organizations” – hyped up versions of today’s…

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Separate the state and money

Tankies once again attempt to seem like they have good ideas

I have never in all my life had so many emotions about a tumblr poll but oh my GOD I'm so happy Garak won, lmao. That was so tense.

Can't stop thinking about @onsomekindofstartrek's "From the Earth to the Enterprise" AU. "We will go to Vulcan in this decade (at warp 5) and give them the finger. Not because it is easy, but because they're easy."

They've convinced the majority of people that money is "real" and the most important aspect of existence