Lucifer ☄️Oct 4, 2023
They keep on finding that leaving homeless people on the street is more expensive than just giving them housing, or in this case, money.

Never let your political leadership deny that homelessness is a policy choice, not a fact of life or an unchangeable reality.

Edit: as requested, link to study https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2222103120
And a related news story https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/30/canada-study-homeless-money-spending
Show threadDadsForSensibleCurfewsOct 5, 2023
@LuciferMorningstar makes you wonder what the purpose of "money" is
Show threadPete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫Oct 7, 2023

@old_baby @LuciferMorningstar
Money is relatively harmless as a technology for resource allocation and exchange.

It's Capital that is the problem.

Show threadDadsForSensibleCurfews
@petealexharris @LuciferMorningstar money as i have experienced it seems to be as much a tool for extracting value and muddying the waters between value and price.
"making" "money while you sleep" is describing the individualistic goal of capitalism. to earn enough money from organized labor (through rent collection, investing or hiring employees, it makes no difference. ) how would you describe the purpose of money in that equation?
Oct 7, 2023 at 8:01pmWeb
Show threadPete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫Oct 7, 2023

@old_baby @LuciferMorningstar
I would describe the ownership and control of resources, limiting the freedom and potential of other people, as the problem. Feudal lords used to do it with land and beans and turnips before serfs had any currency to extract.

Money's a tech. It's like the blood plasma of an economy, carrying value around but not being valuable in itself.

Even doing full collectivism, it's better to let people decide what to "spend" their share on. Money's a way to keep it simple.

Show threadMunicipal AdhesivesOct 8, 2023

@petealexharris @old_baby @LuciferMorningstar

Ahistorical hogwash. Money was the way to force a farming population to feed the occupying army and pay taxes to the oppressor: Oppressor pays its army in coin, and only accept taxes in coin. The only way for the farmer to get coin to pay taxes is to trade food with the occupying army for the coin.

Money is a tech to generate oppression.

You also don't understand blood plasma, which contains clotting factors without which you would bleed to death from a paper cut.