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I see no way around it and would not like your system as it would kill innovation. No one will strive unless a reward is part of the package.
Originally posted by randyvs
reply to post by Greatest I am
I see no way around it and would not like your system as it would kill innovation. No one will strive unless a reward is part of the package.
I'm not talking about communism. I'm talking about the end of all currency that really is just a marker for energy spent. Those that the system favors are merely amassing hordes of energy that others have spent to acquire the markers so they can survive week to week and live as slaves. I'm talking about true freedom, less stress, no wars, an end to most of the crime. Seeing the root of all evil, which is the love of money, plucked from the earth and withering in the sun.
I think you're completely wrong about innovation as well. Depends on the person just the same as it does now. Not everyone is even motivated by reward. I think there could possibly be even more innovation. People won't be murdered for designing a carburetor that gets 200 miles per gallon or an engine that runs off of water.
" For the love of money, is the root of all evil." Absolute truth.
Originally posted by STARTRUTH49
Im sure the illuminati will laugh if they see this post and what makes you think you have any kind of link to them ? If you did you wouldnt post what you have posted and that is ignorance. The illuminati are the exact opposite of whats going on in your brain, here is a suggestion for you rich brain....go and donate all your money and uplift a comunity...only then could you even be considered one of them and what is it you are actually trying to say, or is it just your own ego that needs some much needed attention.
Your Gurus Tip for the day.
Do some retail therapy and all this will be over
reply to post by tetra50
The world is appearing to be prospering with humans living longer and less poor than ever before.
And you think that those who pay and work for that good position despise life.
Rather a strange view. Care to explain it.
Would you rather we return to shorter and poorer lives?
Oh yes, and this. Laughable, really. No, it doesn't fall back into the general economy when they die....
You mentioned that the rich cannot take it with them and you are right. Now think demographically over time and you will see that the wealth at the top, that they cannot take with them, just falls back into the general economy when they die. Nothing is ever lost to a finite demographic common.
Originally posted by truthermantwo
One cannot have two masters. but reality was created with catch 22s. I am almost at a point where I can figure out how to solve our problems, but people won't listen properly because their minds are undisciplined.
Originally posted by Emeraldous
We have learned enough from your ilk, your contract is complete and it is time for you to go. Be like Helium and leave the atmosphere forever.edit on 7-3-2013 by Emeraldous because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by tetra50
reply to post by tetra50
The world is appearing to be prospering with humans living longer and less poor than ever before.
And you think that those who pay and work for that good position despise life.
Rather a strange view. Care to explain it.
Would you rather we return to shorter and poorer lives?
Your words, above.
Keeping it simple, as you requested, though I think every point I made was salient and it took every word to express it: the poor haven't the means to achieve the same position to pay and work for that "good position."
They are kept in that mein, by those who pay and work for that good position. For it takes the poor to make money off of for the other class to succeed. Ergo, keep them where they are, so that those who have can hold onto their position. And yes, in this way, they despise life, and it seems inherently obvious. In the end, the neither respect the poor, nor how they held their own position, and frequently become less and less appreciative of themselves and what they have. They placate their guilt over this by giving to charities, or making an appearance of caring for the "lesser" class that afford their abilities to succeed. One need only read celebrity news to see the self loathing and self destruction that illustrate this principle.
Despise life? You can see evidence in the wealthy all over the place of this. I don't think this a rather strange viewpoint at all, but rather obvious.
There: KIS enough for you?edit on 9-3-2013 by tetra50 because: (no reason given)
Oh yes, and this. Laughable, really. No, it doesn't fall back into the general economy when they die....
You mentioned that the rich cannot take it with them and you are right. Now think demographically over time and you will see that the wealth at the top, that they cannot take with them, just falls back into the general economy when they die. Nothing is ever lost to a finite demographic common.
REALLY? They pass it on in their estates to their relatives, keeping it right where it always was.....edit on 9-3-2013 by tetra50 because: (no reason given)