money ain't but a thing 2 of 3

MONEY AIN’T BUT A THING 2

Acquiring money isn’t a very wise skill set to cultivate.  Sure, right now money is valuable in that you eat with it ( even if you are completely self-sufficient in food production, and yeh, good luck with that, the old trick of taxes paid in money rather than in-kind pulls your ass into the Beasts grasp.  The ancient Chinese first pulled this nonsense, forcing peasants into cash crop production rather than subsidence ones and this was little help when famine came along-it‘s hard to get many calories from silk or jute.  This complete disdain towards your subjects is emulated perfectly by our East Coast Blue Blood Yankee scumbag rulers ) but money itself isn’t able to function without trade.  Without trade on a wide scale basis, you don’t need money, but trade over long distances is impossible without it.  And what do you need for trade?  Anyone?  Bueller?  A monopoly on violence to police that trade.  Who does that?  Centralized government.  How can a government grow to reach that point?  Through a surplus of energy.  What is going to be scarce to non-existent in the near future?

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Surplus energy.  Come on, people, this isn’t all that hard.  If I can figure it out, it has to be elementary.  Why will surplus energy be scarce in the near future?  The money we use has lost its monopoly on trade as the energy surplus contracts.  The monopoly on violence can’t be re-won as its issuer is not only broke but impotent.  Our new inability to win wars in the energy production areas means, simply, we’ve lost the ability to police trade.  As food production input decline meets overpopulation, Gore Warming crop failures and energy decline, more areas become failed states ( like the once nation just south of us-profit from corn ethanol is more important than spending a bit of money investing in stability for our neighbor, and if that doesn’t tell you all you need to know about our own spiral towards being a failed state, I don’t know what will ) and more instability both increases our loss of control of violence to police trade, so any other contender imperial power will also have issues taking over that role.  So even with energy in the ground, expect less extraction due to out of control violence, failing economies and infrastructure damage from war.

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All this simply to point out, contraction and decentralization  is our future, which most likely sees a long dark age where money is barely used if at all.  If you spend most of your life only learning how to earn money, control money and utilize money, you are not very good in a situation without money.  If the future has no money, what good are you?  And that is the far future.  In the immediate future, what makes you believe your own government will even honor their own currency?  Really?  Because they have?  Ever hear of a thing called the Continental?  The colonies first currency during the fight for independence.  Completely and utterly worthless from hyperinflation by wars end.  How about FDR’s post-election gold confiscation which saw the immediate devaluation by 40% of the paper currency it was exchanged for.  You don’t remember the double digit inflation from the 1970’s?  How much of the middle class was thrown under the bus in 2008 to bail out the bankers?  How many countries have already had bail-ins?  You don’t think we are next?

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Money only has value while its issuer plays by the old rules.  But guess what-the issuer ain’t our FedGov, and they are bad enough as far as being parasitic divine rulers willing to kill you slowly or quickly to further their interests.  The Federal Reserve, that privately held central bank, has already changed the old rules.  You are holding zombie currency and don’t even want to acknowledge it.  Why would you want to hold even more?  Because it buys more pretty baubles you think will become a talisman to protect you?  You already show lack of judgment in worshiping and lusting after zombie currency, and you think you’ll make the right choices exchanging that extra money for survival gear?

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Right.  More next article.

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