See? It's not just me!

[holly_evolving]

More than one person has told me that I was wrong for being angry at being forced to live as a slave to in a constructed, false economy. Or crazy for thinking it's constructed. To all of them, and everyone else: READ THIS. CAREFULLY.

From the article:
"Everyone seems to want to know about the economy these days, so we may as well go there. It's as great an example as any of a program that not only got out of control, but became so prevalent - so accepted - that we came to take it for granted. We think of the economy and its rules as given circumstances, when they are actually constructions."

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/23/what-went-wrong.html

Comments

[holly-evolving.livejournal.com]

I will admit, I didn't lend much credence to the concept of currency loss that he put forward. An asset-based economy makes a lot more sense to me than a credit-based one, but that may just be because I don't trust people. And, you know, there was coin way before the Renaissance.

It was just the idea of the economy as a malleable construct that really mattered to me. It's very hard to choose not to participate in the current format, because you lose out on so many amenities that feel like necessities. I doubt that I could make that choice. But it's important to me that people realize there IS a choice. This whole concept of time, and money, and hurry, is a social construct. It has a hardwired basis in our instinct to support the genes that we're biologically programmed to want to pass on...that's all the amassing of wealth really comes down to. But if you can choose not to pass on your genes, then you can choose not to amass more than you need. You can leave the rat race to the rats.