Your anarchist auntie needs to give into the loquaciousness.
We have reached a point in capitalism where the overlords have ✌🏾"figured out"✌🏾 that they don't need you anymore, but they need you to keep buying into the system.
And people need to start thinking about what that means and what it looks like in practicality.
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Canada’s Big Banks are a ‘culprit’ driving housing prices out of control
Mortgage debt in Canada has ballooned to more than $2 trillion. According to a new study, the banks are largely to blame
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https://breachmedia.ca/canadas-big-banks-are-a-culprit-driving-housing-prices-out-of-control/
I am, alas, by training a value theorist.
Value Theory is the branch of philosophy that is an umbrella covering Economics and Ethics.
Pretty much we are a tiny bit LESS popular than Moral Philosophers.
First:
Everything I say below this point does not apply to people living at subsistence levels. You're already out of the system, you just don't know it yet.
Or more likely: you do.
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I see a headline like this one and my brain goes off in five different directions. But I think the most important one is for us to start consciously appreciating how we participate in the system, because every purchase, every hour spent working, every item coveted for anything other than its utility or beauty, is propping up this society.
So the first question is, what can you do to reduce your participation by 10%?
And the second question is how fragile do you think the system is? How many people withdrawing 10% of their energy and attention will cause a dent?
Most people think the system is robust: It's something that you can't fix or alter. I maintain that it is a lot more fragile than people are allowed to consider.
And I say "allowed to consider" because the point is to keep people too distracted and too busy to mull any of this over.
We're supposedly in the age of disruption.
But the disruptions are entirely superficial.
The disruptions are designed to leave everything the same, except funnel the money into somebody else's pocket.
But what if we actually disrupted shit?
What if we took a step toward not requiring currency, AND not requiring a digital version instead.
But that's another conversation for another day.
For now let's leave it at 10% less participation in this immensely problematic system.
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