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> people saying it's too expensive Always found that argument very strange - if it's too expensive to be healthy and alive, what the fuck is the money for?
by ClumsyPilot 3y ago
> people saying it's too expensive
Always found that argument very strange - if it's too expensive to be healthy and alive, what the fuck is the money for?
- revscat 3y agoProfit for those who can afford to protect themselves at the expense of others. At that point money is largely used for political power.
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- redox99 3y agoThere's a finite amount of resources (including labor). Money is a proxy for that.
- ClumsyPilot 3y agoSuppose i believe that- what is the point of preserving resources, if you are not going to use them to keep yourself healthy and alive? What are you saving them for? But also, that's a very poor proxy - some intangible things like songs cost a lot of money but represent zero resources. Some resources, like a piece of land, quadruple in price, once a fictional planning permission for construction is attached to them, etc. And then you can run an economy like Britain does where you use all economic surplus to inflate value of already existing housing resources, therefore destroying any surplus you could have.
- sp332 3y agoTo paraphrase the author of Pictures for Sad Children, money is just a way for us to hurt each other.