on money (in the abstract)

[alice wellintown]

Right. ...the first sentence is dotted to the post that I replied to.
In that post the author claimed that there is an ongoing war between
the rich and powerful and the poor and powerless. I said it is not
war, but human evolution sped up by technology.


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>> 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.