money is not really the problem.

Money
and lots of it!

All
of
this

comes

from the sale of drugs in various locations and is just a drop in the bucket of goo known as the illicit 

DRUG TRADE.

It would truly stun you into a coma if you had all the illicit profits made in the world in one month from the sale of said illicit drugs in one place.

I'm thinking an arena


Or

Maybe

A big hole

Just think about the amount of diverted funds

 or resources that keeps

the under world alive.
It makes you wonder why the government does get in on it rather than fight it.

Money money money.

It truly is an illusion.

The act of gaining wealth by creating nothing is not very useful but it's a marvelous trick.

In fact I'll go out on a limb and say that it's counter productive for societies to be paying the warrior, the administrator, the clergy it's something for another commentary but through out the ages of settled civilization we have been paying out to people who are creating nothing of substance. We pay them primarily to keep others very much like themselves from taking what we have. 

It has only become worse as more of us create stuff without substance to pay someone who creates wealth out of nothing. 

But in regard to the 8-12 hours you've just spent with someone Else's purpose in mind! That was no illusion. You tore your ass away from the game console headed for some place that isn't yours and did some stuff.

Stuff you hopefully got paid for....

Why do we need to get paid?
Pretty simple right?

We need to live is the answer but we want and often get, substantially more than we need.

Question: If you had everything you have now all paid for would you need more?

Would you need cash?


MILF



Of course you would, at least in our consumer based environment you would, there is always something to "get", there is always something new and for some of us, there are our personal bad habits to support.

Yes we always want more and the system is built around consumption but not so much around invention.

Inventions simply cost too much in that they may or may not pay off.  No for the tech/entertainment (which I will probably call tektainment) industry it is about innovation and re packaging existing media devices for use by the slathering hoards all the while the issue of mining ore for use in screens and batteries that are in essence throw away items in North America is glossed over in the name of puter progress and soaring sales every time a new phone is unveiled.

Innovation like money is clever but gets to the point where it is valueless, innovation for innovations sake. 

 Tech isn't in it's self bad many many good things come from the silicon valley's around the world.

It is just that we put a lot of resources into products that are purely competitive and it is not a matter of having choice which is being serviced but rather the idea of saturation in the public eye to the point of selling more than the other guy.

Free market yes it is but is it a sane market?

The tech economy has to have innovation  not invention and a lot of innovation has created some machines and systems that are simply brilliant but year after year now rather than true inroads into the future I see more a rehash of the past with a spin off of billions of dollars.

  

Sometimes MONEY gets in the way of really good ideas.

It also can be justification for doing something half arsed or maintaining a stance that is just plain dumb.

But it is always with us, day in day out, we try to climb the money wall and get over the edge to the other side which is where you have savings!

This chart comes from the federal government.

Some people work hard and honestly while others like myself just haven't planned for anything and hope that somehow Old Age Pension will get us through.

Ok few of us are that dumb we know that it's impossible to live on pension unless your house is paid for or you live in a box..in an alley..behind the pizza place.

There is no morality in the make up of those who would like to control you, whether it be a street thug of some sort or a person of authority, generally these people are beyond remorse when it comes to getting what is in their best interest.

This in part has led to the dog eat dog, I'm fucking first, too bad about your luck vortex that our western society seems to be caught in. 

It is indeed the "Age of Entitlement" battling for top billing with the "Age of Enlightenment" in our supposed final decades.

As always when I am in Etown I walk from the greyhound depot to the Wee Book Inn and browse the ample and eclectic collection of used books. I came across (means I bought) a book by Andy Kessler "The End of Medicine".

In it he goes through a process of looking for cancer detection methods because of a genetic malfunction.
He finds some amazing technology out there in early detection and also finds that it's not being fully funded.

This is an example of the attitude toward money stemming a pool of resources that could end up eradicating many diseases.

In the end it is more the attitudes we espouse and the paradigms in which we live that shape the face of any society not the issue of whether money should be used or not. 

It's the idea of sharing wealth and public investment in the system of governance rather than the system used to keep track of commerce that should be heading the list of changes that we as people should demand.

Whether the demands are made to existing institutions or to new ones matters not as it is the call of active representation in governance. 

Making decisions as to what is commerce and what is fraudulent should be in the public domain.

Ergo the countries commerce is directed by the people of that region without the total adoption of a socialist ideology.
Dismantling the old boys school of government where money is the prime motivator rather than public interest is not particularly hard but finding something to dismantle it with maybe a bit harder.
So far the Occupy movement has come to us and it is in essence behind the idea of giving government back to the people and a return to the free enterprise system rather than the public funding corporate dinosaurs.

I have to find better ways to support it, how about you?