A quotation from Ben Franklin

Wealth and Content are not always Bed-fellows.

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard Improved (1749 ed.)

More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/85…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklin #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichard #poorrichardsalmanac #contentment #happiness #money #riches #satisfaction #sufficiency #wealth

New post: Before I Add a New Thing

https://lanie.work/advocacy/before-i-add-a-new-thing/

#Disability #Money #Low-Income #Subscriptions #Budgeting #Accessibility #Advocacy

@argv_minus_one Tech has something to do with it all.
(How can you say it doesn't?)

#Cooperation or what the empire is wanting to do towards people is all part of communication tech etc.

Forever states are have been mostly against us using economical #war against us (and stealing #money we think is for a good cause / giving to the #poor).

#Tech, and all this waste of time / #war people are doing, is all part of it.

"Tech has nothing to do with it." is so far out like a clear brain disorder.

@argv_minus_one Finance connects the banks to people and extracts from them eventually

( seemingly giving at the beginning but taking more %'s and fees at the end which cheapens the money year on year on year, and why people and planet find it hard).

It's not as infinite as % interest & numbers added magically to loans)

YES people are alive today but UNDER another form of economic war oe #slavery (from Banks #lending and #diluting #money to #food in #supermarkets 'provided' but taking more).

"Lies" - #Batman #Film #2022 #Clip #Quote #Quotes

#Government #Money #Banks
= #Politics #USPol #UKPol
#Cheating #People #Swindle #Lies

A quotation from Propertius

Money — it’s love of money that is fatal;
   for money’s sake men die before their time;
money is cruel; it nourishes men’s vices;
   it is the source of woe, the seed of crime.
 
[Ergo sollicitae tu causa, pecunia, vitae!
   per te immaturum mortis adimus iter;
tu vitiis hominum crudelia pabula praebes;
   semina curarum de capite orta tuo.]

Propertius (50–16 BC) Roman elegiac poet [Sextus Propertius]
Elegies, Book 3, Elegy 7, l. 1ff (3.7.1–4) [tr. Carrier (1963)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/propertius/86168/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #propertius #avarice #crime #greed #money #sorrow #vice #weakness #wealth

No more Lies - #Batman #Film #2022 #Clip #Quote #Quotes

#Government #Money #Banks
= #Politics #USPol #UKPol
#Cheating #People #Swindle #Lies

A quotation from Orwell

The various codes which were presented to you at Crossgates — religious, moral, social, and intellectual — contradicted one another of you worked out their implications. The essential conflict was between the tradition of nineteenth-century asceticism and the actually existing luxury and snobbery of the pre-1914 age. On the one side were low-church Bible Christianity, sex puritanism, insistence on hard work, respect for academic distinction, disapproval of self-indulgence: on the other, contempt for “braininess” and worship of games, contempt for foreigners and the working class, an almost neurotic dread of poverty, and, above all, the assumption not only that money and privilege are the things that matter, but that it is better to inherit them than to have to work for them. Broadly, you were bidden to be at once a Christian and a social success, which is impossible.

George Orwell (1903–1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1948-06), “‘Such, Such Were the Joys …’,” sec. 5, Partisan Review (1952-09)

More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/86130/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #asceticism #Christianity #luxury #money #moralcode #privilege #school #snobbery #socialconventions #socialladder #society #success

@j_feral #FileCoin Implementation could be better.

But the whole #infrastructure and @system (people buying other companies) is a problem and what we need to expect (#rugpulls etc).

We should aim for nearly 100% friend-making with all those that can and measure ppl well. (clear enemies we skip)

- The pollution from #systems and people will always be a factor (the #bank #system #fiatmoney (#debt #lending #money) which I calculate as bad also in many more ways sometimes on people + #planet)

With recent discussion about museum donation boxes in an online forum I thought I'd post this.😆

In this factory in Pakistan they clean the money.
But not meaning of the term that we know in the West.
This is in the truest sense of the word!
#globalmuseum #money #Pakistan

A quotation from Horace

Fortune nor home not more the man can cheer,
Who lives a prey to covetise or fear,
Than may a picture’s richest hues delight
Eyes that with dropping rheum are thick of sight,
Or warm soft lotions soothe a gout-racked foot,
Or aching ears be charmed by twangling lute.
On minds unquiet joy has lost its power;
In a foul vessel everything turns sour.
 
[Qui cupit aut metuit, iuvat ilium sic domus et res,
Ut lippum pictae tabulae, fomenta podagrum,
Auriculas citbarae collecta sorde dolentes.
Sincerumst nisi vas, quodcumque infundis acescit.]

Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 51ff (1.2.51-54) (14 BC) [tr. Martin (1881)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/82248/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #avarice #dissatisfaction #dysphoria #enjoyment #fear #greed #joylessness #loss #money #perspective #pleasure #property #unease #unhappiness #wealth #worry #anxiety

New post: Twenty-Two Dollars

https://lanie.work/advocacy/twenty-two-dollars/

#Disability #Money #Fundraising #Accessibility #Ai #Advocacy

@j_feral #crypto vs. #fiat #money:

- nothing is 100% perfect (everything should have some allowance / reasoning)

- Any complicated #systems can be improved or solved but it's a gamble.

- IDEALLY we use less / nothing and just agree in our minds to let people live as much as possible. It's hard to #share and not fight with words / material #war.

- we have to consume #planet to live.

BUT MUST FIGHT #EVIL INVADING BADDIES / NEIGHBOURS...

+ MAKE #FRIENDS ENDLESSLY (?)
^--------- Very HARD...

A quotation from Horace

Let the man who has acquired Enough not ask for MORE.
A house and acreage, a pile of bronze and gold coins,
Have never been able to lower the sick man’s fever
Or drive out his worries. The proprietor must be well
If he plans to enjoy the good things he’s gathered together.
 
[Quod satis est cui contingit, nihil amplius optet.
Non domus et fundus, non aeris acervus et auri
Aegroto doniini deduxit corpore febres,
on animo curas; valeat possessor oportet,
Si conpertatis rebus bene cogitat uti.]

Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 46ff (1.2.46-50) (14 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/82038/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #avarice #cure #enough #greed #illness #mentalillness #money #more #property #riches #satisfaction #sufficiency #wealth

A quotation from Josh Billings

Honesty iz the rarerest welth enny one kan possess, and yet all the honesty in the world, aint lawful tender for a loaf ov bread.
 
[Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world, ain’t lawful tender for a loaf of bread.]

Josh Billings (1818–1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1878-04 “Imps” (1878 ed.)

More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/85866/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #honesty #money #practicality #virtue

A quotation from Alan Watts

When we finally got down to something, which the individual says he really wants to do, I will say to him, you do that and forget the money, because, if you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend your life completely wasting your time. You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing things you don’t like doing — which is stupid!

Alan Watts (1915–1973) Anglo-American philosopher, writer
Lecture (1969 ca.), “What If Money Was No Object?”

More about this quote: wist.info/watts-alan/85850/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #alanwatts #goals #living #makingaliving #misery #money #priority #ratrace #wealth

I don't believe in #money,

BUT because everyone else does....

I use it :(

#Banks #Power #Quote
#Quotes of #Change

(the banks abuse us / devalue the currency in the process of using it but loaning 'even more' money out than they actually have).

#TruckersForFreedom2022 #protest

Just to mention trucker protests (#Truckers hashtag in general) seemed very effective with #BitCoin.

Enough attention and problem to get the state & banks to try and shut people's #bank accounts down!

The #money of #movements they go after when they see it's working and try freeze #donations etc - Happens when you are effective in avoiding the #system !

#Banks also re-lend our money to bad people when we keep money there so it's a bad start using a Bank.

@thatdnaguy @argv_minus_one Tech people probably see / saw the cat and mouse game during all these years:

The same stakes but higher (#optin or #optout) means fueling the #cat (the #industry) is 100% futile...

#Devs use Tech for #money BUT that is also funding #banks and domino effects of funding bad #projects. also #war.

Developing people is the higher priority now more than tech & money.

Not developing machines.

#Dev #Social (a better #society of less-tech #people / friends - build mass.

@argv_minus_one @Li @miss_rodent

[$+%'s] = $

in this context #Negative #Maths means:

[people are paying for money] for loans [$].
(therefore cheapening the face value after paying for money/#loan #money!!)

Pay $5 to get $100 (loan) = $95 real value after

Make sense? #Banks cheapen their own money by #loaning / asking for #fees for money #transactions.

#FunnyMoney #Bailout #Bank #Loan

Video might help - #Invidious / no ads

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=7PXreFcLE7E

or https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=7PXreFcLE7E

@renardboy For example #Mastodon = 100% great #software

but

Bringing people more socially up themselves = near-0

Mastodon as ' a bit better crowd than twitter who moved from there') is limited.

It's about #Pioneering people / principles UP!

Even forums (#phpBB) or #ICQ #AIM ~20 years again did better if people were driving / motivating it.

Maybe #Tech and #Money (#banks) go together well so people settled for diving banks pockets and power deeper and deeper.

@renardboy Without #Devs ACTIVELY choosing people it's over.

Too late / people are too untrained to socialise - so to try #P2P with everyone during crisis is very limited esp. after the emergency is over.

Doesn't last long (we had 100 crisis per month already / money is the ongoing crisis too!).

Maybe #Tech and #Money (#banks / access to people) go together well.

A quotation from The Bible

The man who loves gold will not be reckoned virtuous,
   the man who chases after profit will be caught out by it.
Many have gone to their ruin for the sake of gold,
   though their destruction stared them in the face;
it is a snare for those who sacrifice to it,
   and every fool will be caught in it.
   
Ὁ ἀγαπῶν χρυσίον οὐ δικαιωθήσεται,
   καὶ ὁ διώκων διάφορα ἐν αὐτοῖς πλανηθήσεται.
πολλοὶ ἐδόθησαν εἰς πτῶμα χάριν χρυσίου,
   καὶ ἐγενήθη ἡ ἀπώλεια αὐτῶν κατὰ πρόσωπον αὐτῶν.
ξύλον προσκόμματός ἐστιν τοῖς ἐνθουσιάζουσιν αὐτῷ,
   καὶ πᾶς ἄφρων ἁλώσεται ἐν αὐτῷ.

The Bible (The Old Testament) (14th - 2nd C BC) Judeo-Christian sacred scripture [Tanakh, Hebrew Bible], incl. the Apocrypha (Deuterocanonicals)
Book 22b. Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 31: 5ff (Sir 31:5–7) [tr. JB (1966)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-ot/85631/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #sirach #ecclesiasticus #oldtestament #apocrypha #septuagint #avarice #corruption #gold #greed #money #profit #riches #wealth

A quotation from Josh Billings

I never knu a man to brag ov hiz munny, or hiz pedigree, who had enny thing else worth bragging about.
 
[I never knew a man to brag of his money, or his pedigree, who had anything else worth bragging about.]

Josh Billings (1818–1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1877-10 (1877 ed.)

More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/85536/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #ancestry #braggart #bragging #ego #lineage #money #pedigree #praiseworthiness #pride #value #wealth #worth #worthiness

Choose the easiest way all the time!
Choose the easiest way all the time!
Choose the easiest way all the time!

[Does my "#reverse #psychology" work?]

#Screenshot #Picture from a great film called:

Shillings from Heaven - Wörgl's Miracle

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=6Uz4PRWr3ns

#ShillingsFromHeaven #WorglsMiracle
Re-#constructing #Communities like #Worgl #Austria

= #ReThinking #Money #Banks #Community #Value

Alt...

Screenshot Picture from a great film called: Shillings from Heaven - Wörgl's Miracle About choosing the hard way.

@DjityDjity "Stop paying tax" has to be the answer in our history at some point

Here and fucking now ...

Stop paying the #bastards and# robbers robbing others,

Can't give them #money and #expect #State and #Banks to do different.

No way around it, don't fund it / fund it le$$.

#Tax #Solution #Answers
#Revolt #Boycott #Revolution

Original Tax Pic = #RichardMurphy

@aral Banks are the root of funding all #evil... ?

Can we talk about #Banks more directly if you we see this picture?

I think you personally and families haven't explored #Banks as much as they could (or let me know if you have)

Banks and #money are the CORE root of growing & funding EVERY #WAR... right?

#Banks Support Wars
#Wars Support Banks
Banks are the #War on #Humanity

Alt...

Banks Support War (arrows pointing to War) War Support Banks (arrows pointing to Banks again) The Banks are the War on Humanity

@mina @fabio @aral @Pyrogenesis I had what seemed an unbeatable feeling of "It could be both a #good thing and a #scam at the same time" but

1/ Mina with Fabio's help made it much more obvious that Fabio's working position saying his working experience is far better than guessing!

AND also

2/ yes money makes everyone tend to go for more rather than less (#deliberate #design for profit which makes things uneven all the time) since stability of #money / #banks / #donations is not a guarantee.

#Money & #Banks #Song #Lyrics / #Quote:

"The biggest bank robber
Are the banks and the politicians
but judiciary are whores what a shocker
....
If you’re living just to make a living thats all there is
And when your lying - slowly dying..."

#Ren - Money Ties (has intro about greed)

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=Uq3Z6D74dSA

or same
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=Uq3Z6D74dSA

#Song about #Money & #Banks

#Lyrics below / #Quote:

"But when the money ain't the means
but the means is the money,

you start to compromise ideals for
dollars, morals get bloody..."

#Ren - Money Ties (has intro about greed)

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=Uq3Z6D74dSA

or same
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=Uq3Z6D74dSA

@bagder Ok this is the interesting #nuance or #meaning I was trying to find:

So without pressure / in theory:

- Can you see that using #Money and #Banks themselves are the #bad #managers in life & they devalue all money by re-re-#lending it out ?

(+ MANY bad things as *the* #1 root of all problems / fund wars as their main #business etc.)

So while I accept #Banks seem to grow things infinitely, #Banks provides a false method expecting infinite growth (% debt) as the bad foundation of life?

@pft For individuals maybe it's ok to do things for free? (if you could see the individual was a goody)

So even doctors (seen in your pic) should / could do things for free* / not put need money* and that could be the nature of all work?

*= if you can also assume #true that:
1- all #money and #banks are bad powers of people mixed in to all our good lives as we use / transact / let them use the money behind our back for bad things incl #war
2- at the same time we make a #paygate for everything?

@RichardJMurphy 1/ Pic = too small

2/ 1st post (similar) is here
- with my #AI comments:

3/ You do good work but...

But see what's behind the #AI #curtain (WizardOfOz reference] and what's 'easy' or basically #AmericanIntelligence

All American stuff you have to wonder why a #free #service & heavily invested #finance ppl...

[#ANSWER BELOW]

because you are their #dinner / #money / #resource while you get your short gain 'using them' (and we all lose) ....

#RichardMurphy #AI #WizardOfOz

@aral io

1- EVERYONE supports #Capitalism - at least on a #financial level as it's an #INTEGRATED #default:

#Taxes & %'$ are taken.
#Banks use #money for #war / #bad projects.

2- Your posts are measurably worse / nasty now - pushing average person or #fans away.

The false #Ultimatums and false-decisions presented are separating people.

(i.e. None of your audience are big Capitalists or #Evil people. Your recent words / #hate feels like you assume it).

3- Not hate - love / increment #trust

Alt...

Information board with writing says: Aral Service Information "The only think more powerful than hate is love" (Quote by Bad Bunny and added by @allonthebaord) Edited by @Collective_Truth

Shall I let #Gaza / #Palestine people follow me if I will tell them the truth about #Banks / #State?

I get messages like:

"We lost our house, car, job, and everything we own 😔💔. I am trying to save my children through the donation link. Please help me save my #children.🙏🤍"

I want to ask you because I will honestly say them same to all in the world:

- #money is 90% not the way / #banks are #funding all #wars.

(in the effort to the #endgame to try break bank's #economic war / state #power)?

@therealitynetwork GOOD POSTS...
BUT a few flaws about Governments:

- Governments exist to #war on their people (profit / over-power them) and sometimes to over-power others in other countries by providing them free #tech etc. #USPol

- Never think Governments are going #save people or do things with the logic you assume towards #liberty / #sovereign tech etc (unless it's #money and #power in that #logic and sense).

The next good revolution is not with Governments but individuals together.

People think Banks are #neutral.

They are #bad managers of your #energy (#savings, #money) funding bad things.

Why bad things ?

#War is more profitable than your shitty #charity so "Sorry no we won't give you loans to your goody good charity / company. What do we get back, good morality?... NO! We need YOU to get MORE money from others!".

Banks want much more back. No matter what cost of life or whatever tanks you build.

STILL WONDERING?

GIVING TO #BANKS MEANS THEY CAN DO THE SAME AGAIN !

@glennmagusharvey @ErikUden For this reply consider #profit = #money (probably is) and therefore stored in banks.

#Banks fund war etc (it's a main business for them) so I have a problem with this #design.

Storing my #savings / profit with banks = directly fund multiple sides of #war.

Banks by design are a kind of #profit / war machine who 'help others' to fund their chosen things (if a good company is allowed to be funded) while at same time #funding all #bad / warring thing$ much faster.

Perhaps instead of #ageverfication nonsense, those who want to protect the children should look at why these platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Youtube and the like are "bad" for them and everyone else.

Here's why:

They are TRADING PLATFORMS. Not video hosting platforms, not social networks. NO. People have to trade their attention (watch ads), data, or currency to use these platforms who make over 90% or more of their profits from these trades. Is like calling a Mall a Social Gathering Event Hall. It is not!

At least they should force these platforms to be renamed/re-labeled.

And you know what else? The harm/addiction of these platforms is not solely their incentive to make people trade more (more ads, more data trading, etc.) to keep them on the platforms is the fact that in this society pretty much everyone has a shitty meaningless life. If people were to be taken care of, and not have to trade all of their lives in a boring and stupid job, with them being worth only when they consume, then smarter and relaxed humans would give 0 fucks about these platforms.

When you are out and about, with friends, are not stressed about how to pay for your life, then why do you give much of a shit to post and scroll on these silly platforms?

How come I do not give a flying fuck about these platforms and what people post on them? Because I am busy with more relevant shit!

SO.

Wanna change something?

REPLACE.

Replace these trading platforms with trade-free ones like Friendica, Peertube and the like. If you are a government, support them!

Replace the meaningless life of most people with meaningful ones. Give people their basic needs as trade-free. Via an UBI or trade-free basic services. This way you don't even have to support those trade-free platforms. People will! The same people who do it now, but who also have to struggle to have a day job in order to keep their work on these platforms going. Imagine having millions of people able to get involved and change this world!

Free people from the Trade-Society!

This way you don't even have to fight with these big corporations. Let them fade out! Let them die.

#facebook #tiktok #TradeRuinsEverything #money #tromsite #trom #capitalism #youtube #trade-free

A quotation from James Howell

Old wine, and old friend, and old gold are beloved in all places.
 
[Vin vieux, amy vieux, Y or vieux sont amez en touts lieux.]

James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian, writer, aphorist
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “Proverbs in French” (1659)
[compiler]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/howell-james/85085/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #proverb #age #books #comfort #custom #enjoyment #familiarity #friend #maturity #money #needs #passageoftime #provisions #supplies #tradition #wine

@gruby I see all #business as a similar bad #exchange of #material, people's #time, #space etc.

Money as a main tool of business strips all things in the same mono-thinking way.

If people understood #money #banks #business they would use less money and more their mind for the #future.

Not waiting for trees to fall and giving money / #tax to people that strip us of everything while barely keeping us and nature alive only to use us again...).

Hard decision when paid a job to cut those tree$.

I'm really enjoying watching all these #Japanese #leather #wallet videos YouTube is showing me lately, because Japan is a bit of an outlier among the advanced nations, in that the use of physical #currency is still very common in #Japan, whereas most other advanced nations are much more #cash-free.

So, in the 2020s, Japanese wallet makers more often still incorporate features to accommodate paper #money and metal #coinage that makers in other countries are already forgoing.

A quotation from Molly Ivins

   As a now-forgotten Sunday-morning chatter announced in horror: “This could cause people to think that the rich can buy their way out of the justice system.”
   No shit.
   Been going to Texas prisons for a long time. Seen nobody rich on Death Row yet. You mean MONEY has something to do with justice in this country?

Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
Essay (2001-04), “Wake Me When We’re Equal,” The Progressive, Vol. 65, No. 4

More about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/16299/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #capitalpunishment #classwarfare #injustice #judicialsystem #justice #justicesystem #legalsystem #money #wealth

@elsua54
2- Truth is... (for me + similar people)
By #TimBray

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/Truth

2- Doing #Money Differently:

https://hughbarnard.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/doing-money-differently.pdf

By Hugh Barnard #Degrowth etc

3- Humour - old ways of insulting people:

- #Shakespearean #Insulter
http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/Shaker/index.html?

- #Lutheran #Insulter
https://ergofabulous.org/luther/

@elsua54 Agree. If people are not in towards freedom then we have different objectives, yes.

If the abuse and #wars are to your liking and you (reader) don't see the chain and who is funding it (your #bank and your #money) then that's fine - go back to pretending / ignoring.

This is real life,, the fixing of the subtle brutal establishment raping our energy (pretending to provide / serve us but really not). No perfection from here.

I agree most people won't even dare try - that's OK / clear.

@elsua54 Work or #Bullshit jobs as you say [#DavidGraeber] is mostly survival by further extraction... but still not right or workable long-term for us individuals to work with them / state / banks as it evidently only gets worse & more abused.

The lack of empathy spreads (systematically also) as we are exhausted and those without get left for #dead / #debt. It's negative overall.

We see that #money for those in power and position is 1st (and maybe 2nd, 3rd, 4th , 5th...100th) priority.

A quotation from Jean Kerr

SYDNEY: You don’t seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help. I tell you there is no despair like the despair of the man who has everything.

Jean Kerr (1922-2003) American author and playwright [b. Bridget Jean Collins]
Poor Richard, Act 1 (1965)

More about this quote: wist.info/kerr-jean/30990/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jeankerr #despair #everything #happiness #hope #misery #money #poor #possessions #poverty #rich #unhappiness #wealth #pursuitofhappiness

A quotation from Thomas More

But what puzzles and disgusts the Utopians even more is the idiotic way some people have of practically worshipping a rich man, not because they owe him money or are otherwise in his power, but simply because he’s rich — although they know perfectly well that he’s far too mean to let a single penny come their way, so long as he’s alive to stop it.
 
[Caeterum multo magis eorum mirantur, ac detestantur insaniam qui diuitibus illis, quibus neque debent quicquam, neque sunt obnoxij, nullo alio respectu, quam quod diuites sunt, honores tantum non diuinos impendunt, idque cum eos tam sordidos atque auaros cognoscunt, ut habeant certo certius ex tanto nummorum cumulo, uiuentibus illis ne unum quidem nummulum unquam ad se uenturum.]

Thomas More (1478-1535) English lawyer, social philosopher, statesman, humanist, Christian martyr
Utopia, Book 2, ch. 6 “Of the Travelling of the Utopians” (1518 ed.) [tr. Turner (1965)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/more-thomas/84877/

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@Christo_459 @aral Want Less Fascism? Use Less Finance...

Easy to let #Fascism in - just use #money and #banks often !

Fascism & Financial-Fascism are together. (same thing now as idea / platform).

Finance is what keeps Fascism going (material & mentality).

Less finance & less banks = all that mentality to be harder to exist / not funded / less influence / less #investment.

Less #Finance = Less #Fascism

#Banks spend for #war / #loan to wrong ppl etc

#Bank is growing / invests in the #bad

A quotation from Jean Kerr

I have two trifling ambitions in the theater: to make a lot of people laugh and to make a lot of money.

Jean Kerr (1922-2003) American author and playwright [b. Bridget Jean Collins]
Interview (1955-07), Theatre Arts magazine

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#jouRapNal #book19 day 66

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Alt...

(juneteenth starburst) freemancipation womancipation efosscipation emanscarpation hemancipation emamcubication (what a day: )

Stop using banks so much...

because...

#Banks lend both sides of #war

#Tanks #Missiles #Arms etc

All 'good' #profit using the 'easy to use' medium developed specifically for war contribution (#money / #tax).

Both money & tax allow the controlling people to misspend our money/energy.

#Banks / war are a #waste of #money / #energy - toxic to all life #pollute #humans

Money needs an #alternative

We need to #counter Banks...

A quotation from Samuel Johnson

   One cause which is not always observed of the insufficiency of riches is, that they very seldom make their owner rich. To be rich is to have more than is desired, and more than is wanted; to have something which may be spent without reluctance, and scattered without care, with which the sudden demands of desire may be gratified, the casual freaks of fancy indulged, the unexpected opportunities of benevolence improved.
   Avarice is always poor, but poor by her own fault.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1759-09-08), The Idler, No. 73

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World leaders and corporate bosses are slowly cobbling together a digital 'singularity' system to monitor and control all human activity via AI-controlled systems. The plan is to extend the reach of this AI into every app, operating system, and device of every citizen, maintaining 24/7/365 real time monitoring of everything you do.

Different facets of the planned system are being individually implemented across an array of countries. The speech control system is implemented in Britain and being tested there. The social credit system is implemented in China and being tested there. The fake news and propaganda system is heavily implemented in the United States.

#AgeVerification in your operating system is a building block of the #SingularitySurveillanceSystem (#SSS). This system has been long in the planning and now the hidden hand is acting through its corporate and government storefronts to begin #Panopticon construction one building block at a time.

#GameOfDrones #Singularity #CBDC #Currency #Money #SocialCredit #Government #Economy #Enslavement #CreepingControl #ControlGrid

#GameOfDrones #Singularity #CBDC #Currency #Money #SocialCredit #Government #Economy #Enslavement #CreepingControl #ControlGrid

Different facets of the planned system are being individually implemented across an array of countries. The speech control system is implemented in Britain and being tested there. The social credit system is implemented in China and being tested there. The fake news and propaganda system is heavily implemented in the United States.

#GameOfDrones #Singularity #CBDC #Currency #Money #SocialCredit #Government #Economy #Enslavement #CreepingControl #ControlGrid

The world rulers are playing a game of drones. Either you will serve the masters of the hive or you will be fed to their digital dragons.

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