the "economy" is a public utility whose intended purpose is to sustain a civilization

  1. Lowtech
    Lowtech
    the economy is something we all depend on, a public utility (an organization that maintains the infrastructure for a public service), and it in turn depends on our proper participation (work). proper participation offsets our consumption. and since this utility has enough economic value propagated within it to sustain everyone, there is no economic basis to limiting resources to the rich. especially as the rich produce no value.

    as the economy is the culmination of our collective work, we all have a right to it's collective benefit. no matter how selfish one believes themselves to be, unless one lives in he woods and cloth and feeds oneself without contact with others, one is part of the group economically and with it comes social responsibility.

    the rich believe ownership of assets defer their obligation to work. and worse, while the rich produce no value, they consume several times more than they need for a healthy, happy and worthwhile life.

    a truly civilized society is one that recognizes the fact that everyone is interdependent and that all modern problems have socioeconomic causes.

    we all have an influence on global politics, via our economic footprint. and what ties it all together is how resources are used and how people interact economically. the few exploit the majority via economic subjugation and this miss-use of resources/economic value historically and currently leads the majority into poverty, wage slavery, war, class struggle. all modern social problems stem from our archaic abuse of the economic process.

    the economic process is the converting of raw resources into usable materials and items. this basic process does not require money, markets, nor the rich. people, being a social species, are dependent on this process. the rich exploit our dependence on this by introducing an exchange medium that distorts value (money) and a mechanism to derive economic value from the worker (profit, assets, capital).

    the rich maintain control partly through division. as long as the rich have all of us oblivious to the economic subjugation imposed on us, making us think with the mentality of the employee/consumer, believing the illusion of free choice, keeping us from questioning plutocratic rule, we can never mobilize to stop the economic exploitation and chaos that puts us in perpetual war, class struggle and wage slavery.