I'm convinced most people still don't understand what "all cops are bastards" actually means.
"bUt My UnClE/dAd/BrOtHeR/fRiEnD iS a CoP" Yeah, now imagine how many situations where they had to bite their tongue and look away because interfering would lose their job.
Even the "good" cops aren't really good because even if they try to stop other cops from being bad they'll be punished. Being a cop is just being in a govt sanctioned gang.
Would be useless. Guillotine blades were thick, heavy, and had that ironic angled shape for the specific purpose of lobbing off heads efficiently. Razor blade would be terrible at that, no matter how big.
Consider that not everyone is at the same level of progress in their journey of being unplugged from the matrix. Everyone starts somewhere, and maybe this post gave someone their quote of the year. Encourage radical thinking or post better memes. Be the change, yadda yadda.
You can disagree with giraffes too, to the same effect.
You're going to hate something because of the way governments distribute the thing it represents? How is that not like hating all water because you had a flood? Hating air because it's too windy?
That's a function of power, not money. Even if you magically made the concept of money disappear, there will still be people who find a way to gather power over other people.
Right but what point is it trying to make by pointing it out?
Yes, money is a social construct, but it's a construct that represents something real, i.e. trade. Without money we'd replace it with something else, but it ultimately comes down to the same thing.
Like, I can understand the perfect world without landlords or billionaires and so on, but what's this perfect world look like that has no currency?
Yes. We have all agreed to exchange tokens (which have little to no inherent value) for goods and services, in lieu of trading other goods and services directly.
All other mechanics surrounding money are up for debate, but for any society more advanced than the hunter-gatherer stage, some form of "money" is required to facilitate trade.
Problem is the majority of money is tied up overseas and in shit like the stock exchange, the insurance market, crazy real estate speculation and various other investments. If any decent portion of that gets leveraged back into material goods everyone trying to simply live is suddenly poor as fuck and starving to death. The value of money is based on so many assumptions it's unsound.
Not that you're wrong in practice, but there's nothing at guaranteeing that practice is stable and people's lives depend on that very stability.
Careful with that thinking there, mister. Soon enough you'll be rederiving civilisation and suggesting things like power structures and statutory social order.
the origin of the idea is that since you can no longer simply go exchange your money for its equivalence in actually valuable metals, you can't expect prices to be based on the value of their material components and labour any more. Money is no longer a promisory note for gold. Admittedly, that logic is a little iffy, and yet the threat has come true:
the more updated version of that is to simply go to any big store and look at the prices - say, $65 for a DVI to HDMI signal converter - and see that price has been divorced from the real value of products in favor of capitalist bullshit like artificial scarcity and the total enshittification of society, which i daresay has already been achieved.
If I had any talent at all I would 100% make a fabulous looking embroidery of this to hang in my house..
E: also I love how this has gotten so many people to openly declare both their ignorance and determination to maintain it, in their refusal to look up a topic that has been written about extensively for centuries and actually educate themselves, instead of confidently and incorrectly declaring something they know nothing about wrong or impossible or whatever capitalism has indoctrinated them to believe about its alternatives..
Give it some time. He's helping people at the moment with his current business model. But his model really seems like he's just moving to corner the market. Once he has cornered enough of that market, his true colors will show.
You don't amass that kind of wealth by being altruistic.
I've watched so many police bodycam videos by now to say that anyone who gets caught red-handed for their criminal bullshit, are the ones who'd be screaming about how all cops are bastards.
I'll trade all cops are bastards for religion is a business.
The guy that got his wealth by exploiting thousands of workers? The guy that wants to get countries in the global south to overexert their healthcare resources eradicating a disease with no major outbreaks when they have real disease outbreaks to handle, all to fuel his ego as "the guy that eradicated malaria"? The guy that lorded millions of dollars over Oxford when the university wanted to open source their covid vaccine?