Poverty… Turning Problems Into Ideas
A Book in 30 Days — Day 10
Poverty is basically my life… but it's a funny thing.. I never had to live in the street.. yet I was still technically impoverished…
I call it virtual poverty.
Because it's only thanks to virtual/immaterial concepts that I was deemed 'below the poverty line.' Stuff like debt, income unadjusted for inflation, need-based food stamps, arbitrary gerrymandered school districts and red lining and hidden fees and all manner of mess.
Growing up like this really made me hate the system.. hate money in general.. perhaps that's not healthy or whatever.. but it has fed my visions of the future.
What if people never were limited in their livelihood with this centralized bukake mess of fiat currency we call cash or money?
What would a world without money look like?
I imagined it would be far better.. simpler, and yet more fulfilling.
Such a world would ideally be one where people don't have to stress that they won't have food or water or a damn place to live just because they find themselves in a situation without money… which can happen for a bad visit to the hospital, getting laid off due to company changes that have nothing to do with you; or not being able to find a job due to a lack of businesses in your area, and a (job) marketplace that changes faster than you can learn new skills...
Then I realized what currency even is... What it was originally meant to be…
It wasn't supposed to be a noose around the neck of poor folk... or a whip exclusive to rich folk who practically own the poor… or the means of manipulating politics to one's end at the expense of other's rights, freedoms, and lives.
It's not meant to be the despotic bull💩 that just ends up putting half the world in a state of poverty and the other half in a perpetual grind just to not be impoverished... with only a handful of people across the globe actually able to live in abundance... (excessively so…)
It's not meant to create classes of people for which others discriminate and abuse and regard as unwanted or lazy due to the very limits and barriers the socioeconomic institution systematically puts before them.
It's supposed to be a way to exchange goods and services. Simple as that.
Its supposed to be a way to agree on value. Fairly and freely.
But it has been corrupted by polarizing political/economic ideologies; by greed.
Capitalists think everything should be a product or service sold on the free market, where its impartiality determines or interprets supply and demand…
Communists think nothing should be a good or service with everything supplied and owned to/by every person equally…
Socialism seeks to supply certain goods or services to the people (usually free of cost), typically based on need…
Idk which is right or wrong… all I know is what hasn't worked… communism hasn't worked, albeit mostly due to totalitarianism. Socialism hasn't worked, albeit mostly due to myopia… capitalism, despite the rate of progress and propaganda-like news, isn't working, mostly due to lack of empathy and accountability…
I understand and respect how far capitalism has brought us, but the facts must be stated.
The so called free market has (arguably) led to an epic, global mess of pollution. The profit-first mentality has led to corporatism, a glut of consumerism culture, and anti-consumer practices feeding upon that culture… It has lead to the proliferation of sweatshops and economic downturns due to central banking and tampering and predatory practices. Capitalism needs to be revisited. Reevaluated.
That's why I don't care for any one of these systems… I care for what works.
So my system I want to do of course has as little to do with money as possible, at least when it comes to dictating people's livelihood.
I'm still working on it, it's something I plan on testing with my own businesses; but the core of it is essentially to facilitate free trade, empower individualism, and reevaluate itself. It would provide support, end poverty for real, and combat corruption.
Yes, the system would largely be automated… and here's how it would approach each of the major problems of today (housing, resources, infrastructure, education, administration).
....To be Continued…
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