Post by JohnHall on Sept 18, 2014 14:00:21 GMT
To ensure that everyone understands what I am getting at, I'm going to explain the way the money system works. The dollar, which just so happens to be the world currency, has a NEGATIVE value in reality. In other words, I can sell a piece of land, I can sell food, I can even sell myself, but I cannot SELL a dollar. I can only trade it for something else or pay fees on it to the lender who gave it to me, which is the banking system. The reason why this happened is because they stopped backing the dollar with precious metals and started backing it with debt-heavy interest rates. So, the banks print the dollar and say it has a value of 1. Instead of giving it away, they say, you can "borrow" it, and after this amount of time you will owe x amount of interest on it. Thats the amount of money you "owe" the bank for "borrowing" the dollar. After a while the interest builds up past the point that you can keep up with it and the dollar you started off with is now owed money. This has been going on for a long time.
Let's talk about real backable wealth. These are things that will put forth a return to you, either through some service that the product/thing provides or some sort of inertial wealth (sellable items, etc). You can eat the food you own, you can live in the house you build, etc... As if the money situation weren't bad enough by itself, its debt has been tacked onto items through the credit system. Now, because of a contract signed, your credit buildup will legally bind your items to the bank. They "own" your stuff until you can pay them off. That's how they repossess cars and foreclose homes through the legal system. It goes without saying that all legally binding contracts will make you subject to this financial fucking, since the entire United States government IS a corporate entity and the purpose of all legally binding contracts is to make a person into a corporate entity so that they can be subject to the same rules. That includes your social security number and your birth certificate.
People used to live off of nature, which is the greatest source of wealth that we have. Look at the diversity and the amount of resources it offers. Money is only another means to sustain yourself and get things that you want... It has just become very broken over the years. To get an idea of truly wealthy societies, study places like the Egyptian empire, all of Europe during the Renaissance period, and shamanistic cultures like the Native North and Southern Americans.
Let's talk about real backable wealth. These are things that will put forth a return to you, either through some service that the product/thing provides or some sort of inertial wealth (sellable items, etc). You can eat the food you own, you can live in the house you build, etc... As if the money situation weren't bad enough by itself, its debt has been tacked onto items through the credit system. Now, because of a contract signed, your credit buildup will legally bind your items to the bank. They "own" your stuff until you can pay them off. That's how they repossess cars and foreclose homes through the legal system. It goes without saying that all legally binding contracts will make you subject to this financial fucking, since the entire United States government IS a corporate entity and the purpose of all legally binding contracts is to make a person into a corporate entity so that they can be subject to the same rules. That includes your social security number and your birth certificate.
People used to live off of nature, which is the greatest source of wealth that we have. Look at the diversity and the amount of resources it offers. Money is only another means to sustain yourself and get things that you want... It has just become very broken over the years. To get an idea of truly wealthy societies, study places like the Egyptian empire, all of Europe during the Renaissance period, and shamanistic cultures like the Native North and Southern Americans.