So, you want to destroy capitalism?
You want to change the world?
It’s time for a revolution, you say?
Ask for gold. No, demand gold.
Then ask for food. No, demand food.
When people realize that paper representing a value greater than the paper itself is ridiculous we are on our way to changing things… When we realize that gold is worth something only because of perception, we can start to change a part of our nature. How can a metal bar be worth more than a whole year’s worth of food?
Good one thirst. It drives me crazy to listen to the doom and gloom crowd spouting off about making sure they have some gold, or maybe investment quality diamonds just in case the world decides to collapse. The dummies! I don’t want gold, I want a damn rototiller and a pile of garden seed. You can’t eat gold - even with salt and pepper.
thirst4pragmatism placing the value of sustenance above gold?
(checking pulse … yup, I’m still amoung the living, and could even be awake and alert … hmmmm)
It would appear that brother tentative, “I-da-ho for concealing secret knowledge” friend from the Northwest has the proper perspective … a yoked oxen and seed for planting … that would be my most valued possessions, for when it all, obviously, utterly, completely, inexorably, collapses.
Of course, I’ll leave judgements aside regarding the “gloom and doom” crowd, being a card carrying member and all.
Even with the “gold standard”, were it to be reinstated, wherein lies the value?
The answer lies within the contracts of human beings, actual or perceived, that eschew reality, and create a belief attached to an object defined by others, as representing value. No different than the institutions that were created to further ensure the belief would be maintained.
Then again, one could also argue against any value, of any defined object, including the human being itself.
