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Populist Reform of the Democratic Party

robertpaulsen

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1. "We are currency slaves" - you nailed it.

Reply to demwing (Original post)

Fri Aug 21, 2015, 08:32 PM

Aug 2015

Until you change the way money works, you change nothing.

The currency we're slaves to has no intrinsic value anyway. It's just debt. Debt from fiat, debt from fractional reserves and debt from usurous compound interest.

So why are we working ourselves to death?! For what?!

This commercial is a great parody of that Cadillac ad that asked why we're not more like Europe (5 weeks vacation per year) and came off sounding like go-go capitalist Reagan-era bullshit, even if it was for a plug-in.

Better to question why than be a mindless consumer.

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The Consumers and the Consumed [View all] demwing Aug 2015 OP

"We are currency slaves" - you nailed it. robertpaulsen Aug 2015 #1

Housing is a large percentage of our costs - bring that back inline and everything else Hestia Aug 2015 #2

Imagine what compromises we would settle for demwing Aug 2015 #3

Currency slaves--a personal epiphany merrily Aug 2015 #4