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[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Economics is the control mechanism which filled the void vacated by religion after the Enlightenment. A bunch of arbitrary rules, conjured out of thin air by the ruling class, protected from scrutiny, and imposed upon the masses.

  • Churches and cathedrals became banks and financial institutions.
  • Priests and clergy retrained into economists and finance officers.
  • Mythology was mixed with cherry picked elements of mathematics to become finance.
  • God evolved into GDP.

Within this framing, money is an imaginary construct that only functions because of a shared societal psychosis. Its value and utility can only exist as long as everyone involved in its use continues their belief in it.

This is not to claim religion and economics shouldn’t play a part in society, they can help with social cohesion, and unify groups for a common goal. My argument is that they should be subservient to the will and needs of the society they exist within, not positioned as their current dictatorial role of casting the societal mould.