Author: Wayne DePrince Jr. Date: To: veleiro CC: System undo crew Subject: Re: [unSYSTEM] Happy (Bank) Holidays - Varoufakian Economics and UBI
Il giorno Thu, 16 Jul 2015 01:19:10 +0000
veleiro <veleiro@???> ha scritto:
>
> I may be skinned alive here for this one.
>
> "The power of money is that it forms connections between those who have
> no connections, connects strangers as strangers and thus, by making all
> things equivalent through it, gets everything into circulation. But the
> price of money’s capacity to tie everything together is the
> superficiality of those ties, where lies are the rule. Distrust is the
> foundation of the credit relationship. Because of this the reign of
> money must always be the reign of control. The practical abolition of
> money will only be accomplished by the expansion of the communes. Each
> commune in its expansion, however, must take care not grow beyond a
> certain size, after which it would lose contact with itself and almost
> unavoidably give rise to a dominant class within it. And the communes
> will prefer to split up, to spread themselves better that way, and
> simultaneously to prevent such an unfortunate problem." - The Coming
> Insurrection
>
> I mean to point out that Bitcoin isnt the end-game for freedom for
> everything.
>
thanks for sharing this probably unpopular but challenging/thought-provoking point of view.