Yeah if we keep basing everything on money! We need to go back to bartering
Comment on Wreck the economy because it only works for the billionaire class.
MrCharles@lemmy.world 2 years ago
That… is a very…VERY BAD IDEA.
Billionaires have enough money to survive an economic crash without batting an eyelid. Do you?
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Most billionaires aren’t billionaires in cash. If the market crashes, so do they. Now they might be reduced to “only” a hundred million or so but that can be catastrophic when your personal finances depend on billions in stock backing up a series of long term rotating loans.
They wanted to use the market to exploit the people. But that makes them vulnerable in a way rich people didn’t used to be vulnerable.
Gerula@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Yeah, but that “catastrophe” you and I won’t see it. We would have dies already out of hunger or disease. You cannot survive only on hate itself.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Eh, when food gets scarce there’s a few ways things can go. Usually the people in charge try to stop those kind of extreme events by handing out food. It’s when there’s a dust bowl at the same time that things get nasty.
Gerula@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Yeah, go ahead and think you can live on handouts from the rich and powerful, whose economy you’re trying to wreck.