It feels like every nation is economically/politically/socially jumping onto the world stage with nothing to offer. That's why it's all based on debt--oh crap, here I am, nothing to give, so I have to take something. A country that grows all its own foods, a country in which every community feeds itself, a country with a mass surplus of food, that country has something to offer on the world stage. It can enter the international arena and say: "hey, want some food?"
How do you get there? Fuck if I know. I figure if it happens, it just kind of happens.
In the meantime, we have this crazy monetary system. IT'S ALL BASED ON DEBT! Yeah, but that's how it's always been. Judgment is based in debt. You owe me something, that's why I can judge you. What do you owe me? I have no idea. I just know it's something. Something good. Not that bullshit. Something more like that. Yeah, that's good! Alright, thank you friend, here's a loan and a pat on the back.
Anyway, this conversation will probably be obsolete in a few years when we program reality to be perfect and just and pretty with nano-bots.
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