Your Love of Money is NOT EVIL!

Money is a ponzi scam.

Indeed.

Money is not a scam. Fiat currency is a scam.

By money I mean something that can not be diluted or conjured by the sociopaths in power. Something like gold and silver.

Politicians hate this because it greatly limits their powers. For them to spend true money, whether actual gold and silver, or currency backed by the same, it has to exist. And this prevents the wild deficit spending that enables the sociopaths to buy votes and buy influence.

True money keeps the system honest. To increase the money supply requires that gold and silver be mined, refined, smelted, coined, etc. This requires real labor & effort and machinery & investment all the way through this process and ensures there is actually value behind the money.

At the end of the day, money is a swap on ones's physical & intellectual labors. Nothing evil or wrong with that. Stealing money, whether at the end of a barrel or through inflation, is evil because it is someone's creative efforts that is being stolen.

Value is all about perception. It's never objective.

The fiat currencies stay afloat because of the collective perception of value. The same applies to gold.

Gold is worthless, for instance, if you don't have food and water - no matter how much effort went into its production.

Is the authentic signature of a pro footballer valuable? He (and many other people) have certainly put a lot of real effort, labor and investment into getting him to a position where his signature is worth something.

5000 years of history says you are mistaken

yep, i use to define money as socially accepted entitlements, which of course depend for their value on being socially recognized as such.
this applies to any conceivable form of money.
nevertheless a discussion about what kind of monetary institution is the most fair, efficient etc is relevant

I still don't love money.

Excellent Post OP.

What is money?

It is a way of materialising our belief systems, faith and life force.

The value of currency is obtained directly from your labour, your life force. Why do you allow yourself to be valued when you sign a contract for a new job?

Don't you realise that the only product any company has ever sold, is human creativity? Whatever your position is, you can be sure that your output/value has been weighed up by someone, who will then pay less than that amount for your services.

Due to this, you will never be paid your worth, even if it feels like you are! The company will still be making more off of you than you are earning.

When we invest in a company, we're putting our faith in that company - that is all.

Why do we use banks? We all know full well that it's only a matter of time before they decide it's now time for the house to win. Why let someone else look after your money, with a 100% probability that they will be making money off of it, more money than you will ever make from it in the bank.

Can they look after your cash better than you can? If there were spontaneous bank runs, not due to a crash, but due to the realisation that noone else should be benefiting from your own energy but who you show it to, who would lose out when the bail-ins ocurred? Would it be the 99% with their money in a shoebox, or would it be the 1%, with their fake "money" tied up in accounts.

There is truly no such thing as evil, just destruction + fear. And money is a very effective tool to foster both.

Noone in their right minds wants money. It only has value once it is traded. We want the things we trade it for - respect, recognition, comfort, even love sometimes! Would it not be more beneficial to work for these things without needing a middle man? What a crazy world we live in where people will fight over pieces of paper.

Thank you.

Let me point this out..... On one hand God commands that we give. Today aside from our time as a gift the only thing left to give is our money. We are also told to prepare (store as the ant does)..... This take money. But if one puts money before God then yes that is to love money more than God. Sin! And sin God hates. Use your heads people we cant live / give without money in this modern age.