Why I don’t want to earn or spend dollars
What’s wrong with dollars? Money doesn’t stink! That’s what people used to say. It’s true, if you mean money, as in credit, it’s good. But with dollars, it’s probably different.
Dollars, any official money or legal tender is all the same. It is an instrument designed to benefit the few and extract value from the rest. In other words, it is an instrument designed to defraud the producers of value. That is why, as soon as possible, people should find another way of facilitating trade.
“WOW! Stop using dollars? Are you some kind of free-economy freak who doesn’t believe in paying people when they work for you or something? Food should be free? You should just walk into the store and walk out with it?” you ask.
No, that is not at all what I am saying. I am saying, we should just stop using official money and scale our lives to a sustainable, reasonable level. Official money is an extremely inefficient way to facilitate trade. Whenever and wherever we can, we should deal directly with each other, cut out the bank and all the hundreds of middlemen in between and cut our losses.
Dollars and official i.o.u.s are way too expensive. The banks and government just print more paper or create more blips in the computer and presto, they have an instrument to take something from someone who is actually producing something, while they produce only debt, stress and misery. What they do is to inflate the money supply, which leads to inflation, which is a hidden tax. Hidden does not mean we can ignore it like it’s not there. Quite to the contrary. It is hidden, because if it were out in the open, everyone would go reject it. People would not play along. As it is, everyone simply complains blandly or bitterly about the “business cycle” which is seemingly as uncontrollable and mysterious as the weather.
But it’s not really a mystery. Central banks control the rate of inflation. And it is a fact, every economist and hobby economist knows that when you print more notes, create more currency, but have the same amount of goods and services, things go quickly out of balance. Why do they make more currency? What is the point?
Well, it’s so that in the short time, the lag before the prices go up again, they can legally steal the goods and services they want from you and your friends, your community, using the “legal” (actually) counterfeit credit they just made. Then, when the prices go up, they will turn around and do it again.
I say “legal” consciously. The word simply means that someone made a law to give the advantage to a person or entity, and that person is not you and not me.
Recently I saw a video on the net about how much is a trillion dollars. One of the things that stuck with me, aside from being able to buy a 3$ latte every day for the next 900 million years with it, was that it is enough to run the military of every NATO country in the world AND, that a trillion dollars was just ONE-TENTH of the recent bank bailout.
Now, what do you suppose they are planning to do with all that currency? (REALLY WE NEED TO JUST STOP RIGHT HERE AND THINK ABOUT THAT! The bailout represents enough bread to fund the military budget of every NATO country TIMES TEN.) THAT’s why I don’t want dollars, at all, if I can avoid it and I am determined to find a way to avoid that. Anyone who uses dollars, pesos, real, euro and so on is just buying into his own enslavement and the destruction of the planet.
“But I can’t stop earning money!” you say. Correct, you must not stop producing, but you can wean yourself and your family away from dependency on official currency and go for a more efficient means of exchange, like a LETS, a local currency, a barter or exchange system. Businesses can also do this. We are in for a rough ride pretty soon, as far as the dollar-economy goes. So, we should start now to develop alternative ways of organizing our economy around decentralized, autonomous currencies. These are not illegal. In my own view, this is the most “patriotic” thing we can do now, because it will build our local economies up again and the country as a whole is only as strong as our local communities.
Bu, if you work for dollars, you have to work for someone who is getting dollars and it is all coming from somewhere, from a bank. That bank is owned by a huge banking cartel (small banks and credit unions are virtually a thing of the past), in other words a monopoly and they have an agenda, and they are very careful to whom they give that currency, that the company or person to whom they give it fits in with their agenda.
Again you will want to prove me wrong. “What about philanthropic organizations?” you say. “What about green initiatives?” Well, like it or not, everyone (EVERYONE) who uses official money is supporting the an unfair distribution of wealth and bloated government by paying the hidden inflation tax. Even if they are avoiding paying their federal taxes somehow, they are still paying the biggest tax of all, that is the hidden inflation tax. That is a fact!
Nothing anyone says matters; no expert economist, no scientist or politician can deny that inflation is a tax and that it’s the only way the government and banks can take away your productive effort and do with it what they please.
The only way we are going to get things under control is to stop this runaway machine by boycotting these unfair currencies. The only way we will be able to do this is together. Please go now to the community exchange website, the link is there just to the right. Sign up for an account and start trading directly with each other.
People should get together and sit down and read history to each other, very recent history at that. All these names float around: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Gandhi and so on. WHO WERE THOSE PEOPLE? What did they stand for? Why were they persecuted? Why were they murdered? Why did they fight? What was the basis of the war of 1812? What about Gandhi and salt and why did he spin his own cotton? We need to talk about that, because very soon we are going to have to face some very tough realities.