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Article posted Oct 30 2009, 3:26 PM

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Source: Scroogle.org

A note of appreciation from the rich

Let's be honest: you'll never win the lottery.

On the other hand, the chances are pretty good that you'll slave away at some miserable job the rest of your life. That's because you were in all likelihood born into the wrong social class. Let's face it — you're a member of the working caste. Sorry!

As a result, you don't have the education, upbringing, connections, manners, appearance, and good taste to ever become one of us. In fact, you'd probably need a book the size of the yellow pages to list all the unfair advantages we have over you. That's why we're so relieved to know that you still continue to believe all those silly fairy tales about "justice" and "equal opportunity" in America.

Of course, in a hierarchical social system like ours, there's never been much room at the top to begin with. Besides, it's already occupied by us — and we like it up here so much that we intend to keep it that way. But at least there's usually someone lower in the social hierarchy you can feel superior to and kick in the teeth once in a while. Even a lowly dishwasher can easily find some poor slob further down in the pecking order to sneer and spit at. So be thankful for migrant workers, prostitutes, and homeless street people.

Always remember that if everyone like you were economically secure and socially privileged like us, there would be no one left to fill all those boring, dangerous, low-paid jobs in our economy. And no one to fight our wars for us, or blindly follow orders in our totalitarian corporate institutions. And certainly no one to meekly go to their grave without having lived a full and creative life. So please, keep up the good work!

You also probably don't have the same greedy, compulsive drive to possess wealth, power, and prestige that we have. And even though you may sincerely want to change the way you live, you're also afraid of the very change you desire, thus keeping you and others like you in a nervous state of limbo. So you go through life mechanically playing your assigned social role, terrified what others would think should you ever dare to "break out of the mold."

Naturally, we try to play you off against each other whenever it suits our purposes: high-waged workers against low-waged, unionized against non-unionized, Black against White, male against female, American workers against Japanese against Mexican against.... We continually push your wages down by invoking "foreign competition," "the law of supply and demand," "national security," or "the bloated federal deficit." We throw you on the unemployed scrap heap if you step out of line or jeopardize our profits. And to give you an occasional break from the monotony of our daily economic blackmail, we allow you to participate in our stage-managed electoral shell games, better known to you ordinary folks as "elections." Happily, you haven't a clue as to what's really happening — instead, you blame "Aliens," "Tree-hugging Environmentalists," "Niggers," "Jews," Welfare Queens," and countless others for your troubled situation.

We're also very pleased that many of you still embrace the "work ethic," even though most jobs in our economy degrade the environment, undermine your physical and emotional health, and basically suck your one and only life right out of you. We obviously don't know much about work, but we're sure glad you do!

Of course, life could be different. Society could be intelligently organized to meet the real needs of the general population. You and others like you could collectively fight to free yourselves from our domination. But you don't know that. In fact, you can't even imagine that another way of life is possible. And that's probably the greatest, most significant achievement of our system — robbing you of your imagination, your creativity, your ability to think and act for yourself.

So we'd truly like to thank you from the bottom of our heartless hearts. Your loyal sacrifice makes possible our corrupt luxury; your work makes our system work. Thanks so much for "knowing your place" — without even knowing it!

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Dave

Posted: Oct 31 2009, 8:12 AM

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what a distraction crisis is

People are being bombarded by difficulty after difficulty, distraction after distraction which distracts people from thinking and reasoning their way out of this if they even notice what the real problems are. I have been tracking convergance, the break point which is looming but what if there was a way out that was relatively painless?

When I research I often find what is publicly presented is harmful, that is normal, whatever official or officially contrived information is put out the political twists are present in some way. When I get to punch through all the layers and pull down all the nonsense, I often find a helpful truth sitting behind it. Our heads are threfore full of nonsense but the right answers are there too.

With international travel people are discovering there is one world we share and to have fought wars against people like ourselves because we were told to utterly absurd. Each and every road away from the nightmare is blocked, border controls and at the end of the road a global company along with all the power parifinalia that goes with it to keep the prison system running.

Dave

Posted: Oct 31 2009, 8:18 AM

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To start the ball rolling in terms of ideas, I throw up one for discussion or invigorate thought, not just to call a halt to the decline but a peaceful remedy, a peace that is true and for all except for those whom peace is an enemy. People controlling other people hasn't worked, law has protected that con no matter the extremity, organised religion has similarly killed peeople on mass, imprisoning all and imprisoning masses in sqaulor, splitting mankind into predators and prey.

A prototype survival system I put forward as food for thought is what would effect be a single unified salary system. When central banks have been the mechanism to enslave, murder and destroy people across the entire planet this may seem an odd suggestion but very often the cons sit right on top of something useful, this is done deliberately .

Dave

Posted: Oct 31 2009, 8:24 AM

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The dosh system

3 main cashless transaction types, salary out to the individual, return to the payment pool and journals.

1. [*1] everyone on earth over 8 years old receives 1000 units of salary per week.
2. every expenditure returns the money to the payment pool account
3. on death the outstanding balance returns to the payment pool
4. [*2] all balances and identities are open for anyone to see
5. transactions secure but humanity first

*1 over 8 or some grading system to ensure it is population neutral, ie people are neither rewarded or punished for having children.

*2 this is for safety, no one could have more money saved up than they had time on the system * salary less what they spent. Trust is not enough for such a system thus anyone can check.

TimAng

Posted: Oct 31 2009, 8:25 AM

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this is an awesome piece of writing

Dave

Posted: Oct 31 2009, 8:28 AM

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People in poverty are likely to welcome this reason suggests. What about the man with 100 million somethings in the bank? That money would become worthless but he won't have to worry about someone hungry breaking down his door. What about the politician? This is financial equity, no politics.

These thoughts come from a trip to the shops yesterday. I went to the counter and I said to the chap 'how are you'. He waid 'I would be fine if I wasn't at work'. I replied 'yes, that is b*ll*cks isn't it. I saw on tav that for every job there were 100 people applying for it, that is b*ll*cks too, that has to collapse. If we all got paid regardless, some of that 100 wouldn't be willing or able to work but enough of us would that you would have to work for an hour a week, I would do the same and no one ends up stressed out.'

Dave

Posted: Oct 31 2009, 8:34 AM

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I see many advantages to this equal pay unconditional salary system. If there was no money someone might turn up at the shops and want to take everything, a few destroy life for everyone. The system does ration by having a limitation on what people can get in one go. Such a sytem thus safe against some absurdities though there are all real limitations as there are only so many bananas in the world.

Why would a farmer supply food to shops for free? If he didn't there would be others who would and many more hungry people who would oust the farmer just to survive. Equally important this system frees up good will, life becomes voluntary and a call for volunteers is likely to be well subscribed, indeed it encourtages people to communicate with one another on the basis of helping each other.

I suggest our time is best spent not on the orchestrated distractions but looking for ways for mankind which do not end in catastrophe or involve making choices for other people. If not this, something else perhaps will be something that people would opt for but those for whom true peace is an enemy.

Dave

Posted: Oct 31 2009, 8:39 AM

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At the moment people are bribed or punished, there is an elevator up and an elevator down. Instead this system leaves free choices, no one can buy someone else with money, all transactions out never actually leave the bank and go straight back to the bank. People cannot therefore pay people to lie for them.

People rich or poor are imprisoned by money. Perhaps a system like this can set them free, free also from the fake divides for the system implicitly states all are equal, not in the context of a prison but in the context in which people make their own choices, can help or not and are not punished if they do nothing. I call that free choice, the opposite being what is now causing so much difficulty.

I am not saying this idea is right, it was just a moments thought on a trip to the shops. If there is an idea that is freely acceptable and workable across the planet and taken up by people, we will have a new world, a new world that need not be scarred by the continuation of the abuse we inherit.

Dave

Posted: Oct 31 2009, 8:55 AM

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With the banks simply technical guff that implements salary and return on payment, all internal transfers, work is voluntary so political divides state vs public, corporations vs consumers, chairman vs employee dissolve. This may not be an end to politics but it should be the beginning of that end.

Historically the world is imprisoned by controlling supplies, hence occupied trading points like isreal, london, basra, odessa etc. In this banking model all the oil in the world is worth precisely nothing and those that obstruct good will would be seen doing exactly that. I don't know of an army in the world that could stop an idea that people took hold of.

I remember posting recently on this site about the only viable economic system being one where people controlled the purse strings. In this system that is all there is, an end to the political economies the world over.

What if the only rules needed was how the banks worked and mankind was left alone to figure out the rest. What if behind all the murder and mayhem in the world over the centuries used to create central banks disguised the good they could do, the harm that could be avoided and for all people. Worth a thought?

I tried to avoid popularist comments, that to me feels like salesmanship, one promotes something by demoting something else. In this instance though taxes would be history. Currently people join the US marines and join the death squads having their minds busted from the off just because they need a salary. That would stop, they get salaried whatever they do.

The salary system a life line and rationing system. You cannot use it to do a crown job and try to buy up an army and buy up and conquer the world. Central banking has been used to ruin life across the entire planet, knowledge can be used to help or harm, the con often sits right on top of the truth and as tavistock says the truth should be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies. The salary system smashes the money prison which a russian leader said was 90% of the control.

Perhaps this idea, perhaps more ideas, perhaps others. Necessity is the mother of invention and I don't think that is likely to be necessary, I think amonst us we already have all the answers we need.

Isn't it time that 1984 was put in the history section of the library?

Anonymous

Posted: Oct 31 2009, 9:46 AM

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Whats worse than being a serf? Being an angry unemployed serf with money problems and lots of time to think. Just about everyone on my street is unemployed and would love to get a mind numbing, dangerous job.

Anonymous

Posted: Oct 31 2009, 10:20 AM

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That's how they keep us down. Starved into submission, just like the Indians, just like a circus animal. But how many on your street have demanded the return of a Constitutional credit system so that we can end
the cycle of debt-slavery for ourselves and our nation? How many have seen the true nature of our enslavement? Not many, I would wager.

Dave

Posted: Oct 31 2009, 11:26 AM

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<the cycle of debt-slavery for ourselves and our nation? How many have seen the true nature of our enslavement? Not many, I would wager. 71.237>

There is no debt or contract in the above, it doesn't pretend to be anything other than what it is, it isn't of itself political. As for seeing enslavement, I have lived some of the spectrum points that a life can live through. I was born with a silver spoon as in my family cared for me, fed me and would but for a scholarship have paid for a private education. After my laptop was stolen by the local police company here I didn't wish to allow for any opportunity for a claim I was hiding or such nonsense. I turned up at the state asking for help as in the circumstances I needed a home and money having neither. I was told I wasn't a priority, to come back the following week. This started on the 4th, now the 31st and they still haven't paid the first benefit installment, they just ask you to phone their query line from a call box and I tried and tried, all lines are busy then their computer system drops the line after telling you to call back later. If you call in at their bases they tell you you can't go in but to use the call box if you have a question. When I was telling people how they keep telling you different lies deliberately and keep sending you from meeting to meeting trying to confuse and destroy you, instead of suggesting I was exagerating or being a conspiracy theorist, many know the system inside out for all its orwell nonsense. Clearly though the above by logic flow indicates a wilful attempt by mrs windsor to commit murder, that is how I see it and from talking with people this was normal. I didn't just observe this but lived it for real, I had no money, no home and lived through all the nonsense that followed, with loads of people employed as liars and trouble makers attacking everyone that arrives for help. The above deals with those issues, paid anyway they are not imprisoned within a company to lie.

The 'g something' gang are sitting on something to deprive people of the benefit of it. Their use as a debt machine when it could be a closed loop salary system. The official media announced the british government's private uk financial holdings company which it had given public money to buy up stakes in banks under the advice of mr kingman, would now sell off the profitable parts of the banks and keep the rest. What a con, from credit crunch to new company with clean money and toxic debt for the people.

Anonymous

Posted: Oct 31 2009, 12:12 PM

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89211

It's a great piece of writing. But it's misleading because it imagines that someone is actually better off because of this rotten system.

The reality, in my suspicion, is worse. Even the ultra-rich suffer from the hyper-competitve, dog-eat-dog ethos they have cultivated and fed; they too lose from a system which puts profit first and makes money the ultimate aim of human existence. They are surrounded by lying and deceitful sycophants who pretend to love them, but actually love their bank balance - and deep inside the ultra-rich know it. Thus, their very existence is fake.

Add to that the fear of crime, the fear of falling into the social pit, as well as the need to keep appearances in such a fake society - and frankly speaking, it's seriously open to question whether being ultra-rich is much better than being ultra-poor.

But the real loss is the opportunity cost of the existing system. For example, if we didn't have poor people to do degrading jobs, we'd have them mechanized instead - to everyone's benefit, including the ultra-rich. Certainly, I for one am glad that instead of having to rely on a typesetter in a printing press, I can use a printer to print books at home.

Dave

Posted: Oct 31 2009, 7:30 PM

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Politics by nature expands, in the case of a political economy division expands with it to the point the top of the pyramid goes its own way when the rest of it can't stand up under its own weight.

<'The first man who, after fencing off a piece of land, took it upon himself to say "This belongs to me" and found people simple-minded enough to believe him, was the true found of civil society' - Thoreau>

<Add to that the fear of crime,...89.211*>
Those who have property seek protection of that property, which in practical reality means to some extent keeping the poor away when poor is how superwealth is created in a pyramid scheme and in effect a prison is built. People come up with conditioned responses to having protection and some of the benefits are real but with poltics (which expands by force exponentially as the more power it gains the more it uses it to increas power) it is the downside one must consider.

In suggesting a financial system based on equal pay I wasn't doing so as in attacking the winners but if you generate losers then it is a) unfair (the law claims to be otherwise but its purpose is to enforce social injustice) and b) that is war when if we were all wiser I suggest we would see that as stupid.

It is natural that we believe in what is around us as we adapt to it and take it for granted. That comes with quite some danger. Recently someone was talking to me and I said 'that is legal claptrap'. He said 'but you are on british soil'. I said 'the soil was here before britain was ...'

Dave

Posted: Oct 31 2009, 8:21 PM

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People have different skills and are recognised as such in a neighbourhood. That is natural and helpful. As soon as you formalise that to a rank the control game is in play, that is a freedom issue based on rules and rulers and human beings are erased.. Those that truly have standing wear their own shoes.

The control game uses division, in society it gets wizard of oz'd, only this person is allowed to do that. With religion they split the person, with society they divide it into organs so nothing can be whole inside or out and people live the movie they are in as their life is scripted rather than lived. I spoke to someone in a family involved in the wizard of oz film, if memory serves me right the lion was courage, just courage. England is often symbolised as three lions, it gets America to do much of its dirtywork, that isn't courage.

Although most people remark at some time on how stupid officialdom is in everything they do, what hasn't been so easily noticed is how orchestrated the ignorance is. The official media worked very hard the bbc especially on demonising the word 'conspiracy'. Norms and abnorms are used for control. People in society tend to believe in external opinions and views of themselves rather than figure out their own so you have large numbers of people laughing at reality without realising it is and living a fantasy not realising it is. Children tend to know the difference, tend to know who their friends and enemies are, adults are often programmed out of ability to learn.

Charles

Posted: Nov 02 2009, 10:06 PM

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If you want to know how people should live just look at primitive societies. Any anthropologist will tell you that as society becomes more developed, people generally have less leisure time, with the exception of a small ruling class. When people are domesticated, debased, and dependent they can be forced to work for the benefit of others. If you ask me, we are better off living in small independent groups, as opposed to a massive, homogeneous, artificially created freak shows that we call modern societies. And whoever said that "it is questionable whether the super poor are worse off than the super rich"--That is a JOKE!, Sure some rich people may create their own personal hells, but that is their own choice. That is not comparable to being hungry or watching your children go hungry...

THWAPPER

Posted: Nov 08 2009, 5:30 AM

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A couple of weeks ago, I came across a lady who had traveled to a foreign country that others would call not so sophisticated. Many people planted crops, shared what they had, and some worked for a small business. For those who worked, they only worked a couple hours a day. Most people did not have jobs but were quite healthy.

And then I thought to myself, wow, I should have much more than them. I work from 7:15 in the morning until around 5. I work 5 times as much as them. And since I am working in a country of abundance and prosperity, not a 3rd world country, I should be able to have much more assets than them.

Well the truth of the matter, I had to accumulate debt in order to go to school to receive a good paying job. I can not keep up with the interst payments of my student loans so I gave up paying them. My company told us that the profits are shrinking so there is probably going to be a pay decrease next year.

When I was working for the public school system, I noticed that the pay increases were always lower than the rate of inflation. I also heard stories of how our grandparents use to save more money, with the adjustment of inflation, than we can save with a two parent income. Most have to suppliment thier job with an extra job. Parents no longer have time to raise their own children. Children are having to do that themselves.

The money we do make, the government deflates by printing more money. And to be honest with you. I am about a month's pay away from being broke. Sell all of my assets, I could probably survive in a poor country for two months.

So, I have to admit, the people living in a 3rd world country have more security and assets. If the economy falls apart, they can eat their own food. They are not greedy and will support each other when they are in need. They live in a community not a society who believe in a zero sum game. They do not believe that in order for one to win, they have to screw the other.

There is no security in the present system. There is only failure. And I am tired of working long mind numbing hours for a system that rewards me with enough money to be barely over broke. Fuck that. Sign me up for 3rd world status.

THWAPPER

Posted: Nov 08 2009, 5:46 AM

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12496

Also, I have to admit that only people at the bottom, who are the low wage earners, are the only people who are productive. The present system causes too many people to do jobs that maintain and keep the system in place rather than producing a product or service that would be beneficial to society. How many people in high positions do nothing more than pass paper around? They print more paper, money, to pay for the paper they are passing around. Well, the paper money can buy more paper that is suppose to have value, such as stocks. However, that paper can be manipulated. Too many fake pieces of paper can be printed, money as well as stocks. But those pieces of paper can manipulate people to make more declarations, laws and new legislation, into a nice paper document. Paper to control others, making sure that they have enough paper to feel safe. Because everyone knows that those pieces of paper has value. People have faith in that paper. And if they didn't... People would be productive and free.

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