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I fucking knew this was coming. I knew that ‘safety regulations’ and ‘manufacturing standards’ were going to be the first weapons used by corporatocracy to suppress small manufacturers, individual producers, and self-sufficiency in this country. God dammit. I need to hurry up and write that book now.
The rider is guilty and yet the horse is shot.
Money is a commodity, invented to help people by facilitating transactions. It is not wealth in itself. Wealth is natural resources, water, food, land, education, skill, spirit, ingenuity, art. In those terms, the people of Greece are no poorer than they were two years ago. Neither are the people of Spain or Ireland or the UK. And yet, we are all being put through various levels of suffering, in order for numbers (representing money which never existed) to be transferred from one column of a spreadsheet to another.