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Meet Your Gods
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exchemist
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Ah it's Mr Testosterone again, I see.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Even the highest most powerful God will meet its day of reckoning.
@spiritual5142 don't be so negative about money. Get rid of money, but you still have greed, still have control from the top down. Money makes us all much more able to do what we want. Its not what is causing all of this top down structure. Remember, too, that anyone can buy stock in corporations. They exist so that poor people can invest in business without having an entire business. There are countries where the poor are not permitted to do this, and those people are in a very difficult situation and have no way to save. The ability to buy stock in a corporation is very enabling. It is risky, but it is a freedom.
The main problem with corporations is that the shareholders don't want to hear bad news, and so they tend to turn their officials into criminal lackeys or if not them then the underlings. Nobody wants to be a bad news messenger. Corporations always have instruction manuals that nobody seems to follow, because the manuals don't seem to fit the necessities of the jobs. They're always trying to squeeze more work out of fewer people, and that's a problem. It is a problem, and I'm not denying that problem. The problem is that they favor treachery over better things like giving a damn about people, but the flip side is that anyone can buy stock. But still. Take away corporations and you still have to deal with treachery. Its not created by corporations.
The main problem with corporations is that the shareholders don't want to hear bad news, and so they tend to turn their officials into criminal lackeys or if not them then the underlings. Nobody wants to be a bad news messenger. Corporations always have instruction manuals that nobody seems to follow, because the manuals don't seem to fit the necessities of the jobs. They're always trying to squeeze more work out of fewer people, and that's a problem. It is a problem, and I'm not denying that problem. The problem is that they favor treachery over better things like giving a damn about people, but the flip side is that anyone can buy stock. But still. Take away corporations and you still have to deal with treachery. Its not created by corporations.
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spiritual5142
Member
Ah it's Mr Testosterone again, I see.
Lol yes I strike again.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
No gods I recognize.
spiritual5142
Member
I am not negative about money itself in contrast I worship money. What I don't like is that rich people have an unfair advantage. If you aren't born to a rich family you have to work very hard while they easily make the money and enjoy life.
Most people lose in the stock market, the insider traders make the money. The money is constantly getting transferred from the poor to the rich. With financial crises they transfer money to themselves. The system is rigged. The healthcare system , education system etc all are designed to control the masses. They want to control us more and make us poorer.
Also as it is shown in the above pyramid illustration domination/control gets stronger downwards and gets loose upwards. The truly rich is beyond law and morality. Laws and morality is for the poor.
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spiritual5142
Member
Well you may not realize but they are shaping our lives but they make sure that majority don't recognise them.
"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist”
spiritual5142
Member
I don't want to seem like I am antagonizing every reply but throughout the history rich people always enjoyed the pleasures of life while the poor always suffered. Also the rich always wanted to control the poor so that they don't rebel against them. Now their control and domination over the poor is stronger than ever.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
They aren't really shaping my life.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Yes but revenge is already served through the virtue of nature that will most definitely kill them as surely as it will kill us. Then all the roles change by that virtue. They always do.
One day your the cat, the next day your the mouse.
That's my personal take, so I don't worry about it so much as I did in the past, so I tend to care about my immediate matters and contributing what influences I do have to keep things above the waterline.
There is concentration of wealth. That is a problem in our time but not uniquely. That comes and goes with the mortality of the rich. They want to exert control beyond the grave, they try, try and try. As for the influence of wealth: we have all seen how charities can go crazy, sometimes. Look at Paul Newman's charity and how its donations are now contested. He's recently dead, and there are already problems. Nothing is going his way, and eventually his charity money may work against the very causes he wants championed. You just have no control of anything once you are dead, so the advantage of wealth is temporary. It can be curtailed by the government or pissed away by relatives. Paul Newman was a very well meaning actor who became wealthy through fame, and he established businesses to make money for his charities after his death. What will become of them? He's an example that shows wealthy people have no control of their money once they are dead.
By suggesting that the rich are gods you are suggesting that they dictate what is moral and how things work. I'd say not really, not in the long run and usually not in the short term. They can contest their cases in court a lot better and can bail themselves out of jail and try to bribe people or use their connections. We can, however, have them arrested if they break laws, can convict them of crimes. Its somewhat unfair but not endlessly unfair.
Do you remember the Wallstreet protests when protestors camped out on Wallstreet? Eventually the public got tired of it, so the police were allowed to remove them. Most people were probably thinking: "Yawn. They've been protesting for days. I'm getting tired of hearing about it on the news!" (more like chatter than news) There were protestors but also general inaction from the populace. That is how it has always been, too. Change comes from small groups. We gave the police permission to end that protest by generally not caring about it. And thus we are at the top of the pyramid in that sense. We do nothing, and that results in the way things are.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Reminds me Milton Friedman whining about the government telling people if they can be a doctor or not. Other than setting standards the state just hasn't been telling me either way. My teachers have had more power than the state in that regard.