Message #13532

[uselesslegs]

It's willful ignorance and being pridefully stubborn.  Even the guy who goes up and down the highway and scours dumpsters for aluminum cans didn't find them as a result of nature naturally producing them...and even in bizarro world if they were naturally occurring, SOMEONE has to exchange them for money.

This doesn't diminish the hard work, long hours and effort or innovation that people exert every day to make a buck.  But through a new rhetoric filled filter being used now...that hard work, long hours and effort or innovation carries with it an extreme type of pride (or greed) that disallows the acknowledgement of the symbiotic nature of capitalism required to make their bank account work.  And that symbiotic nature can't continually or mostly flow in one direction, or it's not symbiotic anymore.  Even Vampires realize that they can't completely drain their victims, if they wish to continue to have a symbiotic relationship that will sustain them.  If your extraction is infinitely larger and the amount returned doesn't offset what's required to maintain a safe stable economic environment in all it's various forms, then you're playing a very dangerous game that only has one eventual outcome.

If you wake up tomorrow and everyone's gone, you're not a billionaire anymore. You need other people and a system that acknowledges a certain type of value associated with your items, ideas, labor and a currency.  We need each other in this particular type of economic set up, whether it's acknowledged or not.  I'd really rather avoid implosion.