I was thinking today about why markets are so inherently unstable and I’ve come to the conclusion that money as it exists today is not a neutral store of value because how people no longer independently control their own PHYSICAL resources (food, energy, housing, land, etc) they live on little “plots” of land and are basically landless peasants paying rent to owners of property and thereby forced to work, and this is where wage slavery comes in. Individually, without food and energy control this means people don’t have control over their own time or lives really.
Money as we all know is really the only power besides force and violence that governs and controls peoples behaviours and actions, and determines the quality of their lives. In fact we might say that a lack of money (you’re not rich) means you are a perpetual slave to everyone in society and ultimately the state capitalists. The government is just there to step in and protect the rich from the hordes of poor and middle classes.
I came to the conclusion that individual economic power must me limited and that money itself must have some kind of laws regulating how it can be used and how much of it can be acquired (individually). as well as limiting ownership (individually). A person should get paid a fair amount but it must have some kind of ultimate limit, because it seems that the only way to stop corruption and out of this world political problems is to stop the amassment of capital and wealth into so few hands.
I don’t believe in old style UNLIMITED POWER FOR THE INDIVIDUAL kind of capitalism, I believe in an economic system that allows for sane competitiveness but which is undergirded ultimately based on co-operation and rule of law. Since ultimately we all consent to participate in the kind of socioeconomic system we live under whether we are aware of it or not.
It is really ridiculous how a small percentage of small families out of earths entire population can own over %50 of the worlds total wealth.
I figured out that the system itself is setup to steal from people indirectly by devaluing their time through inflationary pressures. Also by trategically gutting capital from certain countries and segments of the economy moving it to others in a merry-go-round, race-to-the-bottom kind of fashion when the time is ripe, forcing the economy to slowly tank and wages and expectations of workers to drop as they go back into survival mode.
Capitalism in the real world, is really a game for the rich. While we may temporarily enjoy “the fruits of capitalism” it is only because of the unions and the workers who busted their asses for our laws and rights.
If you look at employers and capitalists 100 years ago and the working conditions of workers, it was only slightly better then outright slavery. We know how all our cheap goods comes from by and large people being abused in other countries and forced to work insane hours.
I’ve also come to the conlusion that capitalism is a game of musical chairs, and certain wealthy classes of people can shield themselves from market forces once they acquire enough money and start to game the system via financial tools and monopolizing societies most profitable assets through OWNERSHP LOOPHOLES (the vampiric dollar collar wrapped around society) thereby offloading their risk onto other countries and their subject populations.
Lastly… Money itself is the problem, we need to invent a new KIND of medium of exchange that does not allow the bullshit our current medium does.