We are of the opinion that the mere presence of money makes people want to hoard it. Money corrupts reality because it induces exaggerate materialism, people never seem to have enough of it because fearing for their safety 24/7. It is embedded in our culture but addressing that would make money useless because everybody would see and understand the subterfuges.
So why do you accept money for your posts? You could easily disable them. Its almost like you don't believe a word you are saying, and you are simply trying to create controversy so you can make a few more pennies of that evil soul killing money.
Don't despair, I will continue to down vote you to limit the amount of capitalist coupons that you receive. No thanks is necessary! I will relieve you of as much of that soul crushing devil currency as I can. :-)
It's funny isn't it?
I tried to point that out to a 'collectivist' - who see's capital as 'evil' - but keeps accepting those rewards....
when money is no longer into the picture there is NO capitalism and NO collectivism ... BUT voluntaryism
Like I said, i enjoy my coffee at Starbucks
I don't support corporatism myself, but everyone is free to do so - it's a personal choice of resource allocation...
Capitalism does not need to involve money - capitalism is about acquiring resources.
Acquiring resources is a natural dynamic consistent throughout the natural world, across a multitude of species.
...and if you do not understand that, you need to keep thinking.
if you do not understand that profit-seeking is coercive and can only be made possible by getting more out than what one puts in (breaking the laws of balance), and the consequence of coercion, then to each his town, I am afraid.
A no money world is the merging of materialism and metaphysics.
I'm more in agreement with you than you realize.
But fundamental premises you have are not based in logic.
And nature is logic.
Your conflation (bordering on religious-esque cultism, from what I see) with money and everything else is so far away from the reality of things.
Before we get metaphyical lets sort out the physical basics. lol.
Nature, as our sense perceives it - runs of the physical plane.
Do you not see profit seeking is the most common thread that runs throughout the animal kingdoms!
IT is not bad (or good), it just is.
Conflating (and demonizing) money to all the ills of the world, puts you waaaaay of base, and totally out of alignment with the earths natural process.
(basic physical ones, not metaphysical).
Conflating human cognizance (which I see as what you do) as the reason for profit taking, is absurd.
Honey bees do exactly the same thing. Lions do the same thing, and every other living organism.
Monetarism goes along with a very specific premise and this is the premise I am exposing. Money is the tool, so yes, I am not keen on money.
Animals profit-seeking??? People comparing themselves to animals is a BIG part of the problem. NO animal can think years ahead, not even apes... so your argument is already falling apart. Meaning that your metaphysics is completely outdated
In my metaphysics, humans have to collaborate with the least coercion and have their basic needs met (roof/food/clothing/high education). And competition is extremely coercive. Money was never invented to protect freedom but hierarchy.
Darwin is currently being seriously challenged big time by top philosophers and scientists -- it only is a beginning...
Darwinism/competition and hierarchy, the patriarchal structure is merely killing the planet, they are the tenets of atheism that claims that humans are above nature. Competition will forever mean RAT RACE! The carrot and the stick dumbs down society.
Even Nagel, here below, acknowledges how wrong the system is. If science is false, so is monetarism, just everything.
Many scientists and philosophers are getting it, our problems come from our own arrogance to think that Nature can be bent to our will.
A system that has trafficked and exploited humans throughout history is anti-life and needs to go. Monetarism cannot exist without a monopoly on value, collusion, cheating the output and input, and competition/exploitation, which is why our education system is a complete fallacy and poverty rampant. Addressing all that would render money meaningless
Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False By Thomas Nagel
Nagel is one of the world's leading philosophers of mind. Although he is an atheist, he argues that the materialist approach to life and mind has failed to explain consciousness, intentionality, meaning and value. This failure threatens to unravel the entire naturalistic worldview in biology, evolutionary theory and cosmology. We need a new kind of science.
https://www.opensciences.org/books/philosophy-and-theory
My last reply to you... but thanks for your inspiration, I will be soon drafting a blog about it and clarify all this once and for all
give me a break, predators such as a lion only succeed 40% of the time to catch a prey... Nature will never allow obesity ...
Honey bees just do that to spend the winter... in the spring they are back to square 1... no animal can plan more than 1 season ahead
Even insects such as ants, the colony grows in size because they have more larvae to feed accordingly
Nature is a zero sum game, and for ever will. But we humans manage to think we can do otherwise... go figure
give me a break, predators such as a lion only succeed 40% of the time to catch a prey
Not an argument.
If they DIDN'T profit (calories), they would starve. basic math.
Try eating 1000 calories and expending 1500.
Basic math.
Zero sum is irrelevant, it's about transfer of energy - and profit - because of the action.
Honey bees just do that to spend the winter... in the spring they are back to square 1... no animal can plan more than 1 season ahead
Changing your own goal posts, to argue for the validity of the concept of animals not understanding time is not an argument.
The basis of your point was that animals have no concept of time.
Switching it to ' one season' is disingenuous.
I am getting pennies here, this article will get me $2 at the most, just enough to get my monthly coffees at Starbucks which I enjoy, so what???
what is most evil... working for a coffee and a great cause (the end of human exploitation and the pillage of nature) ... or aggressively stalking to prevent somebody from earning a coffee for a 90min job?
well for this job, I earned 2 coffees :)
Anybody promoting an ideology different than capitalism is FORCED to deal with the system until the system CHANGES...
So what? lol You are acting in complete opposite of what you claim. You say life is better without money, as you try to collect as much money as you can. Why would anyone believe anything you have to say?
FALSE. You can simply tick a checkbox to not receive any money for your post before you publish it. It would take no effort on your part. You are voluntarily deciding to receive money when you don't have to. And it being such a small amount makes it even worse for you. You are perfectly willing to disregard your supposedly strongly held beliefs for two dollars? It certainly doesn't take much to buy you.
Such a weak person! If you try standing up for what you say you believe, people might take you more seriously.
I also have a job because if I refuse to compete I just can be a homeless. so what... I just enjoy my Starbucks coffees :)
but the real reason is that you cannot stand seeing all the scams generated by the system.... wake up and smell the coffee
You are fine with sweatshops and natural resources' exploitation to death and now payback time is here... sorry
A Job??? A job that pays....MONEY????