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My old mate Søren Kierkegaard has the answer He is talking about Denmark's government debt but I think it applies to the entire world excerpt from Either/Or.
by reify 2y ago
My old mate Søren Kierkegaard has the answer
He is talking about Denmark's government debt but I think it applies to the entire world
excerpt from Either/Or.
From what I know of politics, it would be an easy matter for Denmark to take out a loan of fifteen millions.
Why does no one think of that? That some person is genius enough not to pay his debt, that at least is something one hears of now and then; why shouldn’t a state be able to do the same if only all are agreed? So we take out a loan of fifteen millions yet use it not to pay our debts but for public pleasure. Let us celebrate the thousand-year reign with joy and merriment.
Just as there are boxes everywhere to put money in, so there should be bowls of money everywhere. Everything would be free, people would go to the theatre free, have free access to the streetwalkers, take free drives to the park, be buried free of charge, have someone speak over their coffin free of charge; for when one always has money in hand everything is in a sense gratis. No one need own property.
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