• oni ᓚᘏᗢ@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I’ve always seen the economy system as the biggest scam in humanity. Am I wrong by thinking like that?

    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      15 hours ago

      So, there are things called ‘economies’-what stuff gets made/done, who it goes to/is for, how it moves around.

      Money kind of exists to obfuscate this and alienate us from even the parts of it we physically touch.

      Then there’s ‘economics’, which is to economies as scientology is to science. Or maybe as the ‘patriot freedom privacy act’ is to freedom and privacy.

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      It started off as something legit, trading and bartering. The idea of money as a substitute for direct bartering made sense too, since dividing some things isn’t practical. As to where things went bad, I’m sure there’s tons of debate on that. And there’s always been scammers, like that guy Ea-nāṣir and his damn sub-standard crap he passed off as copper.

    • macniel@feddit.org
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      1 day ago

      which economy system? Because its just the title of an important section of a government.