on money (in the abstract)

[alice wellintown]

This is not a war. It is human adaptation, co-evolution, if you
prefer,  or simply response to opportunities Those who can monopolize,
regardless of the waste they produce and how much damage they do, are
the fittest. But, with the revolution in communications technologies,
those who were exploited because they were unaware of how the fittest
came to monopolize, are now more aware. And, because they now sense
that they need to defend themselves, they are doing so. We adapt by
culture, by attitude, with technology. We copy certain patterns in
evolution and then speed them up. So we have rockets instead of
Plastic Man arms that can stretch across continents.

Money will survive. So will the banks, the investment houses, the
political systems. So will, in the short term, an impoverished world
for those who now call themselves the 99% or whatever percent, who
are, for the most part, folks who are better off than most and only
now realizing that this is not their birthright and that they need to
fight to keep this position in the world. This is war.

Can you live without it? Are you fit for that? I doubt it.