Name: Anonymous 2010-05-08 6:40
looking at our current economic situation, you see everyone tossing about the term "debt," this ominous reference to a financial burden incurred over time.
isn't "debt" an abstraction?
is it not just this non-existent contract to which society -- going back centuries -- has bound its mobility?
why must humanity submit to this enslavement?
who says that "debt" is inevitable?
why can't we make a transition to a world where the incentive to work and produce is more humane in its offerings?
all around the globe, you see people suffering because there's "no money" to subsidize programs that would benefit them.
why must there be this obligation to pay one to aid another?
when did it become acceptable that a state can't properly serve its population because it has gone "bankrupt"?
doesn't anyone else recognize how insidiously absurd this all is?
i know such questions lead one to suspect i'm a communist.
i'm a humanist.
i believe that much of humanity cannot survive if we remain tied to an unsustainable system fashioned around this concept of "debt."
how can we wean ourselves off the notion that there must be a financial incentive to service the needs of man?
i don't believe it's human nature.
isn't "debt" an abstraction?
is it not just this non-existent contract to which society -- going back centuries -- has bound its mobility?
why must humanity submit to this enslavement?
who says that "debt" is inevitable?
why can't we make a transition to a world where the incentive to work and produce is more humane in its offerings?
all around the globe, you see people suffering because there's "no money" to subsidize programs that would benefit them.
why must there be this obligation to pay one to aid another?
when did it become acceptable that a state can't properly serve its population because it has gone "bankrupt"?
doesn't anyone else recognize how insidiously absurd this all is?
i know such questions lead one to suspect i'm a communist.
i'm a humanist.
i believe that much of humanity cannot survive if we remain tied to an unsustainable system fashioned around this concept of "debt."
how can we wean ourselves off the notion that there must be a financial incentive to service the needs of man?
i don't believe it's human nature.