Shared this with my old landlord. Could mean war… but its worth a try to help us all understand how the power dynamic failed the relationship and led me and my partner homeless and relying on “anarchist mongrels” to save our ass without all the emotional manipulation.
How does one expect to stop asshole nations from their shit while remaining loyal to the notion that ‘the state creates the currency’?? Most all are going along with this.
In ancient times the temple priests told the peasantry who came to make their offerings to God that the offerings brought by the peasants were not acceptable to God. The priests told the people they needed to take the coins, that only the priests issued, and leave the Real Goods that the peasants had brought to the temple with the priests, go lay the coins on the altar because that was acceptable to God, and then go home.
The original claims of 'authority' about ‘money’ by the temple priests is where the eventual claim of authority about money by government originated.
Graeber and the history of coins and money and their connection to militarism.
Do you know how much of 'the economy' of the USA and other places is dedicated to war in this way?
But the claim of 'authority' is nonsense, and so is the system of money itself; since what is real is the wealth of a people, and money is made up nonsense that the people have been told is real (acceptable to god). It's a long history of lies and deception. It is like unto the miss use of genuine authority as egregious as telling kids lies!
We are not going to get out of this mess while using the very system instituted ages ago to enslave and deceive and steal.
Now every country is using this 'operating system' for control of the populace within its borders (as if that is not bad enough!) ...trouble is that the fighting between countries is so illiterate that countries are going to war over nonsense conceptual make believe!
We are killing each other over monetary illiteracy!
Some, well most, have not connected the dots from how we conceive and then structure money to how we destroy the environment, social capacity, and economic resilience. But when "monetization and commoditization" of economies are 'taught' in schools of economics most are not seeing the People and the naturale world as also being monetized and commoditized, so we fail to see how our concept of money is dragging us and the natural world into hell.
Here is one telling of the history of colonization
From the abstract:
“In the European colonies, land expropriation and forced labor were used, but another important means of forcing indigenous populations to work as wage-laborers or produce cash crops was taxation and the requirement that taxes be paid in colonial currency. This paper provides an overview of this method, and documents its historical importance, concentrating on Africa. Taxation also played an important role in the monetization and commoditization of African economies, and in the rise of a peripheral capitalism. As the paper demonstrates, Marx was not unaware of money taxes functioning in this manner, and the phenomenon was in no way limited to Africa.” - Matthew Forstater
From the above paper by Forstater: ".... The problem was that if the subsistence base was capable of supporting the population entirely, colonial subjects would not be compelled to offer their labor-power for sale. Colonial governments thus required alternative means for compelling the population to work for wages. The historical record is clear that one very important method for accomplishing this was to impose a tax and require that the tax obligation be settled in colonial currency.
This method had the benefit of not only forcing people to work for wages, but also of creating a value for the colonial currency and monetizing the colony. In addition, this method could be used to force the population to produce cash crops for sale. What the population had to do to obtain the currency was entirely at the discretion of the colonial government, since it was the sole source of the colonial currency. This method was widespread and important enough to be called “a secret of colonial capitalist primitive accumulation” (since it was not the only method, it must be called “a” secret). This practice is extremely well documented, yet it has hardly ever been mentioned as an important method of primitive accumulation."
"......Several points concerning the role of direct taxation in colonial capitalist primitive accumulation need to be made. First, direct taxation means that the tax cannot be, e.g. an income tax. An income tax cannot assure that a population that possesses the means of production to produce their own subsistence will enter wage labor or grow cash crops. If they simply continue to engage in subsistence production, they can avoid the cash economy and thus escape the income tax and any need for colonial currency. The tax must therefore be a direct tax, such as the poll tax, hut tax, head tax, wife tax, and land tax. Second, although taxation was often imposed in the name of securing revenue for the colonial coffers, and the tax was justified in the name of Africans bearing some of the financial burden of running the colonial state, in fact the colonial government did not need the colonial currency held by Africans."
"....The requirement that taxes be paid in colonial currency rather than in-kind was
essential to producing the desired outcome,...."
Since colonial times we have remained faithful servants to an illiterate and impossible system of imposed make believe.
It is the math of money (as presently conceived and structured) that should have told us that when everything is linked (monetized & commoditized) to this inherent instability then everything, including community capacity and coherence, future generations, the natural world, will get sacrificed in vain attempts to respond to the illiterate imperatives of money (NOT part of the natural world) that remain unquestioned at the conceptual level.
In addition to the above-mentioned illiterate and unnecessary sacrifices one must also include the nonsense of war and the attempts to control those natural resources and using the further imposition of the same illiteracy about currency from one nation over another! Talk about compound illiteracy! Now every country is using this 'operating system' for control of the populace within its borders (as if that is not bad enough!) ...trouble is that the fighting between countries is so illiterate that countries are going to war over nonsense conceptual make believe!
We are killing each other over monetary illiteracy!
Why are we paying credence to the utter madness you describe? Where is the kernel of that madness?
https://bibocurrency.com/images/Manifesto/Pitch/60-second-pitch.pdf
https://bibocurrency.com/images/Manifesto/manifesto.pdf
12,000 or so years of misogynistic extortion rackets in the shape of states and armies.
Shared this with my old landlord. Could mean war… but its worth a try to help us all understand how the power dynamic failed the relationship and led me and my partner homeless and relying on “anarchist mongrels” to save our ass without all the emotional manipulation.
How does one expect to stop asshole nations from their shit while remaining loyal to the notion that ‘the state creates the currency’?? Most all are going along with this.
In ancient times the temple priests told the peasantry who came to make their offerings to God that the offerings brought by the peasants were not acceptable to God. The priests told the people they needed to take the coins, that only the priests issued, and leave the Real Goods that the peasants had brought to the temple with the priests, go lay the coins on the altar because that was acceptable to God, and then go home.
The original claims of 'authority' about ‘money’ by the temple priests is where the eventual claim of authority about money by government originated.
Graeber and the history of coins and money and their connection to militarism.
Listen from 42:06 to 47:10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZIINXhGDcs&t=2534s
Do you know how much of 'the economy' of the USA and other places is dedicated to war in this way?
But the claim of 'authority' is nonsense, and so is the system of money itself; since what is real is the wealth of a people, and money is made up nonsense that the people have been told is real (acceptable to god). It's a long history of lies and deception. It is like unto the miss use of genuine authority as egregious as telling kids lies!
We are not going to get out of this mess while using the very system instituted ages ago to enslave and deceive and steal.
Now every country is using this 'operating system' for control of the populace within its borders (as if that is not bad enough!) ...trouble is that the fighting between countries is so illiterate that countries are going to war over nonsense conceptual make believe!
We are killing each other over monetary illiteracy!
Let's stop this!
https://bibocurrency.com/index.php/downloads-2/19-english-root/learn/299-stop-wwiii
Some, well most, have not connected the dots from how we conceive and then structure money to how we destroy the environment, social capacity, and economic resilience. But when "monetization and commoditization" of economies are 'taught' in schools of economics most are not seeing the People and the naturale world as also being monetized and commoditized, so we fail to see how our concept of money is dragging us and the natural world into hell.
Here is one telling of the history of colonization
From the abstract:
“In the European colonies, land expropriation and forced labor were used, but another important means of forcing indigenous populations to work as wage-laborers or produce cash crops was taxation and the requirement that taxes be paid in colonial currency. This paper provides an overview of this method, and documents its historical importance, concentrating on Africa. Taxation also played an important role in the monetization and commoditization of African economies, and in the rise of a peripheral capitalism. As the paper demonstrates, Marx was not unaware of money taxes functioning in this manner, and the phenomenon was in no way limited to Africa.” - Matthew Forstater
From the above paper by Forstater: ".... The problem was that if the subsistence base was capable of supporting the population entirely, colonial subjects would not be compelled to offer their labor-power for sale. Colonial governments thus required alternative means for compelling the population to work for wages. The historical record is clear that one very important method for accomplishing this was to impose a tax and require that the tax obligation be settled in colonial currency.
This method had the benefit of not only forcing people to work for wages, but also of creating a value for the colonial currency and monetizing the colony. In addition, this method could be used to force the population to produce cash crops for sale. What the population had to do to obtain the currency was entirely at the discretion of the colonial government, since it was the sole source of the colonial currency. This method was widespread and important enough to be called “a secret of colonial capitalist primitive accumulation” (since it was not the only method, it must be called “a” secret). This practice is extremely well documented, yet it has hardly ever been mentioned as an important method of primitive accumulation."
"......Several points concerning the role of direct taxation in colonial capitalist primitive accumulation need to be made. First, direct taxation means that the tax cannot be, e.g. an income tax. An income tax cannot assure that a population that possesses the means of production to produce their own subsistence will enter wage labor or grow cash crops. If they simply continue to engage in subsistence production, they can avoid the cash economy and thus escape the income tax and any need for colonial currency. The tax must therefore be a direct tax, such as the poll tax, hut tax, head tax, wife tax, and land tax. Second, although taxation was often imposed in the name of securing revenue for the colonial coffers, and the tax was justified in the name of Africans bearing some of the financial burden of running the colonial state, in fact the colonial government did not need the colonial currency held by Africans."
"....The requirement that taxes be paid in colonial currency rather than in-kind was
essential to producing the desired outcome,...."
Since colonial times we have remained faithful servants to an illiterate and impossible system of imposed make believe.
It is the math of money (as presently conceived and structured) that should have told us that when everything is linked (monetized & commoditized) to this inherent instability then everything, including community capacity and coherence, future generations, the natural world, will get sacrificed in vain attempts to respond to the illiterate imperatives of money (NOT part of the natural world) that remain unquestioned at the conceptual level.
In addition to the above-mentioned illiterate and unnecessary sacrifices one must also include the nonsense of war and the attempts to control those natural resources and using the further imposition of the same illiteracy about currency from one nation over another! Talk about compound illiteracy! Now every country is using this 'operating system' for control of the populace within its borders (as if that is not bad enough!) ...trouble is that the fighting between countries is so illiterate that countries are going to war over nonsense conceptual make believe!
We are killing each other over monetary illiteracy!
Let's stop this!
https://bibocurrency.com/index.php/downloads-2/19-english-root/learn/299-stop-wwiii