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No. Newspaper clippings don't give you impossible, unaccountable power. Money IS a proxy for power in a way that old newspaper clippings (even of your own great

No. Newspaper clippings don't give you impossible, unaccountable power. Money IS a proxy for power in a way that old newspaper clippings (even of your own great deeds) can never be. If you hoard millions of dollars, it's not really the same: it's effectively saying 'I'm going to do whatever I gotta do, in order to seize unthinkable power over everybody I interact with, and rule them'. The money isn't useful in itself past a certain point, it's keeping score and it's a marker, showing what you can do if you want. It's a lot like if you are able to make nuclear weapons and you're hoarding uranium. It's not an inherent value in the uranium, it's what you're prepared to DO with it and how people must interact with you, knowing that.

jamesandthewolf 5y ago
That is something that we need to change, I have no issue with being wealthy I do have an issue when it is something that is misguiding, misleading and breaking the social structures of society just cause "old mate" has a behavioral complex and mental disorder due to potentially a lack of self confidence.
- Applejinx 5y ago
  Well, that's the key, isn't it? Societally we have a different approach to the basically natural (but not exclusive) human drive to just dominate and rule and conquer those around us. There's laws and rules based on the concept that some people WILL want to beat up those around them, and that this isn't helpful or good. Wealth legitimizes this, and that's the problem. But civilization is a long history of society taking on these problems and slowly, awkwardly solving them only after it became impossible to continue any longer as things stood.
  - jamesandthewolf 5y ago
    Yes some of us do have that mentality the keep your hands off my stack pal, but open source thinking kind of goes against that thinking, sharing and helping. While these elements don't have much gain to the individual to the collective they are the fundamentals. I get the whole money thing yeah it's awesome to be rich, it's awesome to be powerful ok shot bro, what next. I really do feel we should help, respect and build products that respect individuals but also helps the collective cause one day all of us here won't be here! So why not help those who follow us not make the same mistakes over and over again like a pack of (insert any word that is an insult here)

jamesandthewolf 5y ago

That is something that we need to change, I have no issue with being wealthy I do have an issue when it is something that is misguiding, misleading and breaking the social structures of society just cause "old mate" has a behavioral complex and mental disorder due to potentially a lack of self confidence.

Applejinx 5y ago
Well, that's the key, isn't it? Societally we have a different approach to the basically natural (but not exclusive) human drive to just dominate and rule and conquer those around us. There's laws and rules based on the concept that some people WILL want to beat up those around them, and that this isn't helpful or good. Wealth legitimizes this, and that's the problem. But civilization is a long history of society taking on these problems and slowly, awkwardly solving them only after it became impossible to continue any longer as things stood.
- jamesandthewolf 5y ago
  Yes some of us do have that mentality the keep your hands off my stack pal, but open source thinking kind of goes against that thinking, sharing and helping. While these elements don't have much gain to the individual to the collective they are the fundamentals. I get the whole money thing yeah it's awesome to be rich, it's awesome to be powerful ok shot bro, what next. I really do feel we should help, respect and build products that respect individuals but also helps the collective cause one day all of us here won't be here! So why not help those who follow us not make the same mistakes over and over again like a pack of (insert any word that is an insult here)