Something is Not Quite Right (ProteanView)

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Our foods are poisonous & our economy is manipulated so we subconsciously disengage... When things no longer make sense.

We pay taxes for a social infrastructure & we get a bankruptcy fueled by overcharging & debt. We jog for health, but breathe smoggy air. We eat low fat foods that are packed w/ high fructose corn syrup or aspartame. The vegetables we eat for health are genetically engineered, pesticide clumps. Civilization & poisonous foods are confusing our brains.

The equation has changed. It's being manipulated and, instead of acknowledging it, we internalize, hide, divorce, medicate, hide in tv or snap. We're told to just be positive (or voluntarily ignorant). We push harder on the accelerator as we collectively steer our cars in the wrong direction. What we think comes naturally, doesn't. What's marketed as good for us, isn't.

You're not bipolar. Relationships *do* work. You're reacting to a 'civilization' which is causing the world to make far less sense and we're just supposed to act like all of this is normal. If no one breaks character, we're sure as hell not.

Whisper in my ear like Connie Chung. "Something isn't quite right, no?" ...Somebody better back me up!
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[icepickmeetstemple]

College has been pushed in this country as some kind of life cure-all. Hardly anyone seems to want to admit that they're just factories milling out graduates. Factories in which the standards have gone down and down to amp up production. I had a co-worker once with a journalism degree. I asked if she really thought she'd be able to work in that field when she chose it. She said it hadn't even occurred to her to wonder. And there she was at a crappy below minimum wage job with her degree.

[proteanview]

icepickmeetstemple

I couldn't agree w/ you more. There are people who'd rather garden, be a mechanic, work w/ their hands who are pushed into college. When everyone has a degree, it means very little. It's become just another way to get folks in debt. It's become one of the biggest, voluntary transfers of wealth. Either our parents foot the bill to the tune of well over 100,000 or we get in debt and, therefore, enslaved for the first 10-20 years of our adult life. It's a racket.

[proteanview]

icepickmeetstemple

I wish I would've saved my parents' money, started traveling sooner. Of course it's not as simple as that, but I feel you.

[carly35]

no. your gay, hes sexy.

[Kiddeth]

I can't really argue with you on this one.

[aenarion1984]

The problem is we want everything to be automatic, easy and simple whilst life and especially community life isn't easy or simple.

Lets hope some day every body uses his brain...

[FallenAquila]

*not to mention now, he's willing to give you more then what a straight trade of a 3000GT for a CVO would be, because the CVO is only worth to people 3/4ths the amount of gold as your 3000GT is worth to them. Now you go to the guy who has the CVO, and buy it from him, and can choose what to do with whats left over.

He on the other hand can now use that gold to buy his truck. Money is nothing more then a tool to measure the balance of supply and demand. Anything can be money. It's not bad

[FallenAquila]

@FallenAquila Now that society itself has recognized something that everyone is willing to hold on to, and use for trades, the only problem in the way is the measurement of worth. This is made by the additive judgment of people themselves over time. Lets say your 3000GT is worth more then that CVO. Well now one of these other people who had an item that you didn't want already has (we'll use gold for this example) gold, enough that you are willing to trade for, not to mention it.

[FallenAquila]

he wants. Now there may not be a person who wants to trade a CVO for a 3000GT nor the specific truck for one, while there may be other people who want a 3000GT, but have nothing that they are willing to trade that you want.

Here is where money comes in, lets say there is a base line item that everyone likes (in the past this was gold) Then everyone has an idea of how much of this item, they would trade lets say a 3000GT for, and how much of this item they would trade for a 3000GT.

[FallenAquila]

so lets say that something else is a motorcycle. So without using money, you want to buy a specific motorcycle a harley davison CVO. You find a guy who doesn't really want his anymore, and ask to trade with him, there is a problem he doesn't like your car (in this case a 3000GT) he likes trucks instead and won't trade for a 3000GT. This means that in order to get a CVO, you must either A. find someone else who wants a 3000GT with a CVO, or find someone who wants that 3000GT with the truck that

[FallenAquila]

Your car, a resource of transportation, it can also be a resource of raw materials, or of working items for something else. To you it has an intrinsic value, to someone else the value is different. You may not sell it off because you think the car is worth holding on to, whether for transportation needs, or emotional (aka such as you like it). But if you had two, would the need change? Maybe, maybe not.

You may then look at that car and think that the value of it is less then something else.

[FallenAquila]

If you want to understand economics, which is the study of how people take their wants and needs and which they choose to fulfill based on the situation they are in, then you need to understand that everything is a resource, every resource has a demand.

Your time, a resource you have a limited amount of time on this earth alive, and based on how you feel about that, you choose to use this resource accordingly. You may trade your time for work for something else, or use it for your own leisure

[FallenAquila]

@FallenAquila he could still steal it and would.

You are ignoring the basic laws of how things works, like I said the is a limited amount of resources and an unlimited amount of uses for them. Money is a easy to convert resource, that is all. To remove it would cause transfer issues. Money is not the problem, the way it has been treated and the acceptance of that treatment is.

[FallenAquila]

@SuperVanDamme I do agree on the lack of value problem, and the inflation is caused by loaning money that doesn't exist keep them from loaning money that doesn't exist, the problem goes away.

As far as the violence and "limits" it doesn't. Replace money with any resource and it stops. Medical research for a cure to X desease stops because they run out of igrediant A, or don't have the supplies for to run electricity etc. If a man wants something from someone that he can't get on his own