It’s not about money.

[Twentyfirst]

3 hours ago, Apparition of Jack said:

Do you really complain about every time you drive on a highway that isn’t full of holes (or worse, armed bandits)? Do you really complain every time your house catches on fire and the firefighters show up within minutes, saving all your possessions, completely free of charge?

It’s like Benjamin Franklin said, the only inevitability in life is death and taxes. Taxes aren’t the problem, it’s how they’re distributed. And in this case, they’re funded to give corporations even more and more power over our lives, while the things they’re supposed to do (you know, actually provide for us) goes completely ignored.

For what it’s worth, I’m not saying our tax system is perfect. Believe it or not, I actually generally support cutting income taxes for low and middle-income workers, precisely because they’re the ones who need more of their own money to pay for necessities. My goal however is to completely upend the current financial system dominated by labyrinthian, unelected private entities whose interests aren’t aligned with humanity as a whole’s. The money exists, it’s just most people never see it.

Nobody is stopping you from giving money to the government

Start writing checks bud

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

@Ishanga I can agree with the lack of consciousness part, and that people should be better. Noone wants suffering and noone wants people starving. I am definitely proponent of making capitalism better by making people's characters better. However, you are never getting rid of capitalism and inequality. People with talent and no talent, people with ambition and no ambition. Lucky and unlucky. However, you can make billionaires and millionaires more charitable (some of them are), make them less power hungry. Donating to charity is fine, volunteering is great. 3d world countries focusing on improving their own countries would be a long term solution to a lot of their problems, of course easier said than done. Everything is easier said than done

Edited 14 hours ago by NewKidOnTheBlock

[Ishanga]

2 hours ago, NewKidOnTheBlock said:

@Ishanga I can agree with the lack of consciousness part, and that people should be better. Noone wants suffering and noone wants people starving. I am definitely proponent of making capitalism better by making people's characters better. However, you are never getting rid of capitalism and inequality. People with talent and no talent, people with ambition and no ambition. Lucky and unlucky. However, you can make billionaires and millionaires more charitable (some of them are), make them less power hungry. Donating to charity is fine, volunteering is great. 3d world countries focusing on improving their own countries would be a long term solution to a lot of their problems, of course easier said than done. Everything is easier said than done

The Idea of Rich ppl donating to charity, they do this today, but guess what it makes them richer, so they are not it doing out of "Wanting to share my great wealth for those in need", its how to get richer and more powerful, at least from what I understand that is how the majority do it, for sure there are a rare few that are genuine and give just to give...

3rd world countries are this way, because 1st world countries exploit them and use them any and every way, they don't have the resources nor ability to really lift themselves out of it without selling their souls and country resources to get access to help.. But we could go in there and do it for free if we wanted too! Jamaica just had a disaster hurricane rip thru it, nothing really survived, at least for those that don't have because their houses are huts, and their infrastructure sucks, this is due to no help and no one cares, so its not profitable to help them, this is the basic problem.. Profit comes from Capitalism and competition mindsets, more is better, I am #1, taking rather than giving, its not all from Capitalism but this is how the culture is, and like I said raising of Human Consciousness is the only solution imo!

Yes agreed, it is easier said than done, but saying today is mostly all the power we have to make societal change..

[Ishanga]

This came up on my Utube feed, its about the Debt all the countries owe, and how it keeps things going, that the debts will never be paid off because if they were then everything else would fall since the economy is based on this debt apparently!

As I watched it, what came to my mind was that this is all made up stuff! When the Solipsist says that I am the only one in existence, everything else is a figment of my imagination, it reminded me of that, but only the money/economy/debt stuff is made up, all of us are real people, real and alive and functioning, but this money made debt system and everything else attached to it (speculation, stock market rises and falls) is made up stuff.. If there a was no money to pay ppl, to buy and trade, we could still be alive and functioning as we are still here, the resources still here, and ppl need basics to survive!

https://youtu.be/Q3UI39q-M0Q?si=FKpOgc3YVGkUX6pN

[Apparition of Jack]

4 hours ago, Twentyfirst said:

Nobody is stopping you from giving money to the government

Start writing checks bud

I already do. So do you. It’s fantastic