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Those billions in a cayman account are dead money. They are the marginal efficiency of labour crystallised, and then transformed into a immotile instrument whic
by madaxe_again 10y ago
Those billions in a cayman account are dead money. They are the marginal efficiency of labour crystallised, and then transformed into a immotile instrument which benefits nobody.
You say it does no harm, but why do you think we're still working 60 hour weeks when we've improved efficiency in all fields by orders of magnitude since industrialisation? All that efficiency gain's benefit was "realised" by the elites, but until that money is spent, loaned, invested, used - that value is destroyed.
Sure, sure, tell me it's a store of value, but you'd still think the squirrel that stored 1000 tonnes of acorns for winter and wouldn't share, causing furry famine, to only then after winter forget where he left them and demand more acorns from the working squirrels was pretty damn irrational.
- svantana 10y agoMoney in bank accounts is not like acorns, it's more like having other squirrels owe you acorns. I don't see why that is such a big deal. People working 60 hour weeks has less to do with the Cayman islands than with those people needing a place to stay, and the demand of land far outstripping the supply, making it a zero sum game. That's why a huge land tax is a no brainer, but of course it will never happen, because the land owners can always pull out the old "poor granny won't afford to stay in her own house" argument and get all the sympathies on their side.