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You know it's bad when the ostentatious accumulation of wealth is too much even by catholic church standards. Anybody who has walked through the Vatican museum can confirm.
That was my first thought. Organized kiddie fuckers are like “woah, dude… chill”
So one outcome is that in the end, one person on the planet has all the money and in that instance, all money becomes useless.
That's not how money/power works.
One person could have all the money & just lend it to it's subjects, have total power over them.
That is, however, if the system isn't toppled.
We can at any moment decide all the money is useless. Money is just an arbitrary agreement between humans.
We can at any moment decide money of billionaires isn't theirs.
then how will we pay for pitchforks and guillotines?!
We’ll thrift them from whatever’s left of society!
I propose communal projects, local arts & crafts.
I'm gonna bedazzle the fuck out of my pitchfork!
I always thought giant googly eyes on a guillotine are a great addition, it gives it a fun personality.
Hand made guillotine in the arts and crafts style using locally produced materials. It's a community project for sure. Plus local painters can get their Carravagio on painting the beheadings.
That is in fact the Great Capitalist Attractor, one of the stable solutions of Capitalism, the Mathematical Simulation. One person owns everything, everybody else relies on the One Person for economic output.
We are already dangerously close to this. The economy of the USA is dominated by spending by the wealthy. The under-wealthy have so little, their economic activity is becoming irrelevant; also, their spending is for life sustenance, so they can't spend less than they do.
It seems to be the reason why stocks have been decoupled from basic economic activity for a while now. Stocks rely on spending by the wealthy, since only the wealthy can afford stocks, and the wealthy love stocks as more sophisticated tulips. Did you notice that TSLA, a company with catastrophic losses in sales, is still going up in price?
Corporations are legal persons that can rule and dispatch humans to do its bidding even genocide.
This is what will control the last shreds of our currencies, and it will not stop its program for profit and systematic weeding of dissenters within its board or faculty until the last spine of life support for our planet snaps and has been tagged as deprecated by one of the last children of terra in exchange for a promotion package that may include nurturing his family the next season if the lootboxes god wiwilling lands one of the last rated non-digital goods in the dwindling pool of copyrighted nutrients and comfort prizes available to the megacorp to act as the dried out carrot at the tip of a biblically sized pyramid of fierce and unrelenting sticks.
I know that is a mouthful of a sentence but it can no better be described what is much more likely at the precipe of the point when all money becomes useless.
The Pope isn't a good role model if you want to reduce the "continuously wider gap between the income levels of the working class and the money that the wealthiest receive". I'm not saying he shouldn't live in splendor - I think that the Catholics get to run their organization however they want. But so do Tesla investors...
pope says 'money is bad and having too much is even worse' from his golden thrown
american schism coming
again
Hopefully