Reply #25: I am just showing you reality [View All]

[Taverner]

I could live in a dream world where prosperity is marked by the number of smiles on your face, or the number of FrootLoops you collect on a chain - but that wouldn't be correct.

Society, our governments, our banks and our businesses define prosperity as growth. They also have made currency a dynamic representation of energy in exchangeable form. By basing it on the markets, they are opening themselves up to lots of problems down the line, and growth cannot sustain itself forever. This was Marx's big problem with capitalism.

However, short of a series of Marxist revolutions worldwide, all at once, this is the way things will be. You can elect those who try to make this system work for more people (Democrats) or you can elect people to hoard all the resources (GOP) but in the end, the system is the system, and as much as you don't like it, it is.