Tom Ellis
Jun 26, 2022

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I share your grief and pain about this monumental injustice. But remember: money itself is just arithmetic: an arbitrary, zero-sum transform of information about the marginal value of commodities that makes global trade possible. But it is still a shared illusion: you cannot eat or drink arithmetic. And when money loses its arbitrary value (as it must), the billionaires will suddenly discover that nobody wants to work for them any more because their salaries are worthless. Instead, their most trusted goons and servants will plot against them, killing them and stealing their stockpiled food… The law of Karma has no exceptions.

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Tom Ellis
Tom Ellis

Written by Tom Ellis

I am a retired English professor now living in Oregon, and a life-long environmental activist, Buddhist, and holistic philosopher.

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