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This "wealth" is an illusion - conjured up by the ponzi-scheme of debt, coerced with state violence.

Are you for real or am I being trolled?

Are you against barter as well? That's all "wealth" in currency is. It's a means to barter without carrying around chickens, cows, etc or fixing a computer or digging a ditch on the spot in order to exchange it to someone else who spent their time/effort/skill to make/grow/create/build something that you need or want. Wealth itself is simply goods, services, or other valuable/useful things you have earned through labor, created, or can provide.

People won't work for nothing or just hand over something they worked and put materials into creating/building/growing. Oh, unless one goes back to that old standard solution that's eventually been employed every time such utopian ideas have been tried through history, and to which I referred to in one of my previous posts: At the point of a gun/sword.

Just like the Soviet farms. Production was extremely poor until the farmers were offered a way to benefit from what the farm produced.

Capitalism is terrible. However, it's STILL the best, most successful system that's ever been created in all of history by any reasonable standard.

>Capitalism is the only system ever created where wealth is a renewable resource for everyone and anyone willing to work and/or come up with an idea, skill, or invention that is useful or valuable to another person that you can then trade with for something you need or want.

>Capitalism has raised more people from poverty and dramatically raised the standard of living of more people than any other system ever created.

>Capitalism has allowed more people to live in more freedom than any other system ever invented.

>Capitalism has allowed the US to provide more humanitarian assistance to those in need around the world than any other system or country in history.

Now, the second part about government-run Ponzi schemes, crushing debt, and coercion by the state through the threat of violence I agree with to a great degree.

"I place economy among the first and most important of republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared." - Thomas Jefferson

"The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale." - Thomas Jefferson

"If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy." - Thomas Jefferson

The root of the government corruption and the power the big corporations and ultra-rich wield originates and is enforced by a too-large and powerful central government. Corporations and the rich don't have military or civilian police forces. They don't pass laws or regulations. It's the government that passes the corrupt laws and regulations and enforces them, sometimes quite selectively, to the benefit of those with power and influence. It's the government that will kick in your door, shoot your dog and terrorize and threaten you and your family at gunpoint.

Any power you give government, you give to those who have bought government influence. The only real protection is to keep government small and tightly restricted to only those few powers actually granted by a plain-language reading of the Constitution without "lawyering" the meaning of plain words to twist their meaning to suit a political agenda.

"How strangely will the Tools of the Tyrant pervert the Plain Meaning of Words." - Samuel Adams

"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first." - Thomas Jefferson

A large government makes hiding and/or obfuscating corruption and other improper behavior and guilt/blame easy.

If the government doesn't have the power to r

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