Very perceptive. Now try applying that more broadly to society. There is a perception among some that people would rather collect welfare than work. I don't believe that's particularly true, at least not for 80%. Most people want to work, they take pride in accomplishing something valuable to society. I don't care if you work at Taco Bell or CEO at GE, you contribute a needed function in society and that you can take some pride in. There were many mornings when the crew at McDonalds fed the President.
So why is it that people don't want those jobs? Because they don't pay enough. Here's the question, "why isn't it enough?" What is missing from life? If one is missing the fundamentals, shelter or food, on a full time wage, there is a true shortfall. So, you have a person, has shelter and food, but that is not enough, they want more. Now we have to question, "Why do they want more?" Where did they get the impression they should have more? Well, the people on the TV and Radio are telling them they should. And maybe they should. Most people are quite happy with a job, a modest but comfortable home, preferably nearby work, an ample supply of food and water for them and their nuclear or even extended family. Toss in the ability to take a few weeks vacation a year and you have someone who's pleased with life. Then you have the people who want more things to use, toys; planes, yachts, fun stuff. The make a lot of money so they can buy this stuff to use three times a year, and pay a lot of money to keep it taken care of. This is burden of individual ownership.
But it really doesn't have to be that way, it's only because of money that it's that way. Plenty of cultures prospered for millennia with no concept of ownership and no money. Things were public shared. Think about what money is, money is no more than a promise. It's a promise that you can trade what you have for what you need, so long as someone else needs what you have. It's also a display of lack of faith that you will get what you need regardless. Once you lose faith, you breed mistrust; you lose a peaceful, prosperous society to the costs and ravages of war.
The funny thing is, everything that exists today could exist without money, and we would be much further advanced as a society and species. Once you have money, now an industry grows around it, and the burden of it is great both from a capital and moralistic perspective. They take a piece of every motion of money as well as the creation, but that is just the capital cost. The moralistic cost is that the money industry, and therefore all industry, works for the preservation and maximization of capital itself as if it was a sacred resource like fresh water. There is no concern or consideration given to the societal benefit or cost of any project, just, "Will it make a profit?"
The founders did not want to have a central bank as we have. They disallowed Fiat currency, which is all we have now, and wanted Treasury to serve as a central bank so it could serve the people without draining the economy. It was the British Central Bank that they revolted over.
Think if we ran a banking system on the Credit Union model? Everybody puts in what they have left over at the end of the month, everybody, corporations and individual, and the National H2 Utility. Lets say you want to build a yacht. Credit union looks at the project, 30+ people employed at a good wage for 3 years, enduring employment, good recreational resource. Yacht gets built and the credit union's interest in it is that it's a shared use asset for credit union members, everyone. When Taco Bell worker living in modest housing living a modest life gets their vacation, they can book one of these public assets for a week or a weekend. How much better do you think the Taco Bell worker would be if they got the same perks as everyone else?
It's really the toys and luxury items that cause the big rifts between have and have not. The Taco Bell worker does not envy the CEO's power nor his responsibility, what he envies is the luxuries, especially when it's the CEO of Taco Bell's luxuries. Thing about luxuries, even CEOs rarely get to enjoy them. I get far more use out a yacht than any owner lol. Any given luxury yacht could serve between 200 and 500 people a year on week long vacations and they get a yacht, not a cruise ship.
Think how many people a 182 can serve. We have lost that trade is about resources and have made it about money.
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Guess it's time to ignore this thread. I'll keep henning around, he sometimes has good things to say. Just not today, it seems.
