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Things come to be only when the people with MONEY demand them. If you have no money your demand doesn't exist. A society this unequal serves only the rich (whet
by jsrozner 2mo ago
Things come to be only when the people with MONEY demand them. If you have no money your demand doesn't exist. A society this unequal serves only the rich (whether that's people or companies).
- WarmWash 2mo agoThe 50-99% has twice the money of the 1%, and spends orders of magnitude more. If you want to know what is in demand, look at what nice neighborhood suburbanites are doing.
- danny_codes 2mo agoAre you including corporate spending and government spending, or just private spending? Because private spending for the 1% is largely irrelevant in this context.
- scotty79 2mo agoMoney is a mechanism for keeping tabs on how much the human civilization owes to any particular person or entity. It's imperfect, sure. But it's what we decided to go with. If you don't have money, society just decided (using its mechanisms) it pretty much owes you nothing. So your demands are disregarded.
- nathan_compton 2mo agoWho is the "we" who decided to go with it?
- scotty79 2mo agoSum of all homo sapiens.
- nathan_compton 2mo agoI can't remember taking a worldwide vote on the subject.
- scotty79 2mo agoThere's nothing innately democratic in our species. Democracy is just one of the mechanisms that we sometimes use to make some decisions. We use it way less than money mechanism as you probably noticed.