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Society's Stinky Parts's avatar

Not only are they not real threats, they are mythical bogeymen.

There is no real money. It's childish and autistic to want to be ruled by shiny metal and scarcity. Either one is a mystification of command. The real problem is the wage system that allows people with money to give commands and have them respected.

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Merfy Mac's avatar

If we're distilling the "problem" down to fundamentals, I think it's the unholy trinity of alienation, avarice and apathy that's keeping people in peonage.

ALIENATION: mistrust, cynicism, nihilism, anxiety, fear, subservience, insouciance, self-pity, absence of empathy.

AVARICE: selfishness, greed, envy, narcissism, dishonesty, grasping, self-indulgence, demanding, cowardly.

APATHY: laziness, antisocial, disinterested, addiction, impatience, superficial, unreliable, evasive, uncurious, disrespectful, rude, procrastinating, subservient.

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Society's Stinky Parts's avatar

Don't clap back at me, shitlib. Your emotional needs for others to believe in bullshit to make them easier to manipulate are all on you.

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Mary Wildfire's avatar

Why the hostile response? This looks entirely uncalled for.

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